Word: conscious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CHAVEZ: The difference is ethics and morals. We're not threatening anyone. That slogan is simply a call for conscious reflection on national unity. We're not going to enforce it by bombing or invading anyone...
...uncertainty that mirror the real world, the problems of five surgical interns and their bosses at Seattle Grace seem refreshingly familiar. "This is an old-fashioned show, and that's what makes it feel fresh," says creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes, a black woman who has made a conscious effort to increase diversity (both racial and gender) in the show's casting. "The high-tech plot-driven shows are fantastically exciting. We're an alternative." And unlike Meredith's dilemma, there's no uncertainty about which option viewers of Grey's Anatomy will choose...
...socially conscious second. First, it's funny. In the pilot (being reshot in parts for recasting), Jack sizes up Liz instantly, with creepy accuracy: "New York, third-wave feminist, college educated, single and pretending to be happy about it, overscheduled, undersexed, you buy any magazine that has 'Healthy Body Image' on the cover, and every two years you take up knitting for--a week." In a brilliant bonding scene, Tracy takes Liz to a strip club and says she could learn from the dancers: "They know the window of opportunity's only open for a moment." Liz stuffs a bill...
...Rock is willing to let each of its characters be right and wrong; it's confident that we don't need to worship them to like them. And for all the show's cartooniness, its gender-conscious take on the TV business is actually more sophisticated. Sure, networks occasionally interfere with shows for political reasons. But more often, they do so for demographic reasons. Or for no reason. "Sometimes," Jack boasts, "you have to change things that are perfectly good just to make them your...
Above all, students were suddenly and acutely conscious that this University is not a world apart but a part of the world and that that world was about to be at war. Five years later, we’re still at war, yet many of us have fallen back into the false comfort of what has been aptly dubbed “the Harvard bubble.” It’s a place where everything of importance is contained within ivy walls, and summed up in the Ec 10 textbook’s definition of self-interest...