Word: consignment
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...energy. Ian McKellen sheds the nuances of his role as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and digs into his portrayal of Magneto with gusto. Hugh Jackman again embodies the tortured hostility of Wolverine, right down to the ferocious snarl. Perhaps the most unusual casting decision was to consign the eccentric, effeminate Alan Cumming to the role of Nightcrawler, a blue-skinned mutant who can teleport himself and anyone he holds, provided he can see his destination. However, Cumming’s performance defies even the most doubtful critics, charging his character with layers of spiritual and emotional depth...
...can’t muster the same enthusiasm for the handwritten inscriptions in books. Reading the inscriptions is like knowing you own a repossessed car; you are profiting from someone’s failure. What sort of ingrates were George and Everett to consign their birthday and Christmas presents from the Glenns and Grace, respectively, to the thrift store where I bought them? Whoever the Glenns and Grace were, they spent some time writing their names and the occasion on the flyleaves of Lone Eagle of the Border and Carl Hall of Tait. And yet their hopes of being remembered...
...negative campaigning. Candidates should feel free to scrutinize one another’s platforms and council history, making for a more lively political debate. To this end, candidates should also have more time to campaign officially and more money to spend on these campaigns. Current restrictions consign candidates to pursuing quick and cheap strategies of name recognition such as saturating the campus with fliers. With changes to the bylaws, candidates could have more time and resources to tackle the issues that matter to voters...
...difficult to hear these words coming from a man like Finneran and take them for anything more than the empty platitudes we all crank out around New Year’s, only to consign them to eternal oblivion a few weeks later. There is little doubt that Finneran will “listen” to what his few vocal opponents say—but it’s what he’ll do afterwards that counts...
...absence of clear Iraqi noncompliance, the resolution will only delay the day when the Bush administration has to present the world with the choice many nations have sought to avoid—cooperate or consign yourself to irrelevancy. Believing that war is necessary, I don’t have a problem with that. But those who expect it to herald a new era of international relations will be disappointed...