Word: containers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...busy lives, he said, we fail to make enough space for ourselves; we fill up our engagement calendars simply to fill the empty slots. "Our relationships are often too tiny and petty to contain the eternal vastnesses of our beings," he said...
Still, the crowd made it clear that the evening should contain moments of nastiness. Smith herself was cautious, wanting to be respectful of the church while joking that if her act lasted past midnight (which it did) then it would mean everyone watching would be in church on Sunday. "Just remember," she said, "This is art. No wait, I shouldn't say that. This is an attempt...
...have yet to see a cogent call for welfare reform that doesn't contain at least one serious ellipsis in its logic Usually, however--and unlike Whitman--their authors at least try to conceal such leaps of faith. --James Grimmelmann...
What song and dance these farces did contain were elaborate displays of obstinacy, performances of personal complaints through which combatants beat each other into submission with ever greater, less reasonable demands for attention...
Firefighters were able to contain the flames on the third floor, which is about 1500 sq. ft., Wrinn said...