Word: conscious
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With last year's hiring of Grogan--a specialist in town-gown relations--the University is making a conscious effort to be a good neighbor...
...lacks the necessary pathos to be anything more than a caricature. Zhang Fengyi fares better as the sympathetic Jing Ke, giving a much-needed boost of feeling to the last third of this more than two and a half hour saga. Indeed, as a seasoned killer who makes the conscious decision to renounce his murderous past, he shows what Ying Zheng has the potential to become: strong-willed yet benevolent, not guiltless yet not amoral...
...exception; it's the rule. It's just that there are instances where false belief becomes intolerable. There's a very interesting thing about lies: on the one hand, there's that factual issue, and then there's that question of, like, 'what are they thinking?' Is this conscious mendacity, or is he somehow in this twilight zone where he's somehow convinced himself that what he's saying is true...
...Schama is particularly careful, sometimes even painfully self-conscious, of the use of the term "genius"-"the G-word," as he calls it-although Schama does say that we "intuitively" call Rembrandt a genius. Nevertheless, Schama clearly wishes his book to be a tribute to Rembrandt. He makes no claim to objectivity in his scholarship, and he does not hesitate to call this or that painting "sensational." He jealously defends Rembrandt against recent scholars' charges that he was a pawn of his patrons or the product of the social conditions...
...always have been very, very conscious about crime," said Ray C. Traietti, an employee in the Memorial Hall operations office. "Things have to be kept under lock...