Word: conveyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bedroom, Peil's performance shows far too much reserve to evoke passion. Charney's performance suffers in the same way, especially as he contemplates his murder of Hamlet's father. His charm and gentility greatly mar his performance, as they subvert the evil that he attempts to convey...
...both cases, the sender has expended a measure of effort to convey his message, and in both cases, recipients have been compelled to expend some effort acknowledging and disposing of the message. In daily life, we accept this principle: junk mail sometimes annoys us, but it is not illegal. We can take measures to prevent it, but its receipt usually imposes no cost other than time...
...college, through its helping agencies, can play an enormously important role in reducing some of the factors that weigh upon students. This could be done by increasing students' ability to communicate with each other, first by conveying to them that they are still flexible, young, and able to modify their style of coping with stress. Through a consideration of the whole person, the college can also convey the importance of things that enhance intellectual achievement...
...20th century has made to art history, is certainly its distinctive movement. Nobody before 1900 had thought of painting a picture that didn't represent something--a face, a body, a landscape, a still life. The idea that art could be unmoored from appearances, that marks on canvas could convey emotions, spiritual states and pleasures quite independently of any reference to the world as we know it, had a long ancestry in theory. Plato, after all, raised the idea that there were certain perfect forms--the square, the circle and so on--that move us in a way free from...
These side-commentaries convey Fuentes' frustration with the situation around him as well as if he had been writing directly about them. His disgust for the Hollywood society is apparent, as is his confusion over why Diana submits to this artificial universe: "It all reminded me of... the gringo cocktail party, where no one deigns to concede more than two or three minutes to anyone, not the most fascinating stranger, not even one's oldest and dearest friend. Yes you're made of glass, they look right through you... All of this while balancing a drink in one hand...