Word: connoisseuring
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...Almighty” was a pretty typical comedy, but also examined a man’s faith; “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” told a formulaic romantic story in a brilliant, new way. Here, he still manages to perform the slapstick that a Carrey connoisseur loves—he shocks himself with his dog’s electric collar, sending his trademark elastic limbs into spasm—but is genuine as a dedicated breadwinner and devoted father. Director Dean Parisot—whose previous credits include the cult-hit “Galaxy Quest?...
...Nichols ’06's expertise is beer. At a table in John Harvard’s, the self-proclaimed beer connoisseur has carefully made his selection. He picks up the glass and inspects it with a critical eye. He sniffs, he sips. Then, wrinkling his nose, he puts the glass back down. “This,” the co-founder of Harvard’s first and only Beer Society says, “is bad beer.” Beer aside, Nichols is best known on campus for resigning from his post as Undergraduate Council...
...Qianlong was a true connoisseur. He not only admired bronzes from China's earliest dynasties, classical paintings and calligraphy, but he also wrote about them - sometimes on the works themselves. He stamped his approval on a piece quite literally, and his seals seem to be everywhere. For instance, several seals and a colophon mark Spring's Peaceful Message, a charming double portrait, painted by Castiglione around 1736, of Qianlong and his father. The older man is handing his son a sprig of flowering apricot, symbolizing a peaceful transition of power and wishes for a fruitful reign. Yongzheng did not want...
...month it was nominated for seven Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Director and Original Screenplay for Mclean. Fueling the buzz were reports of hardcore violence, including finger slashings and execution-style murders, which managed to earn the film a respectable four and a half skulls on the gore connoisseur website bloody-disgusting.com...
Bernanke , who was namedChairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers after serving on the Fed's board of governors for three years, believes in a predictable approach to fighting inflation. Greenspan, in contrast, is a connoisseur of esoteric statistics and counts on the freedom to weigh them however he deems wise at the moment...