Word: conveyer
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...neutrality is supported by those who realize that language is a powerful force in shaping the way we think. As our primary means of communicating our ideas, words often reflect the boundaries we place on our own thoughts. By using a term such as "Congressperson," a writer chooses to convey only one relevant fact about an individual: that he or she serves in Congress. All other biographical information may be interesting, but unnecessary; all people are eligible...
First, pick a holiday message you'd like to convey. Merry Christmas? Happy Hannukah? Or maybe just a secular Seasons Greetings...
While each affiliate chooses its issues according to regional importance, they all convey a bedrock belief in tolerance, often attacking their subjects with in-your-face frankness. A recent MTV Europe news segment focused on Russian homophobia. Another network might have opted for tactfully restrained graphics, two men holding hands, perhaps, but the MTV piece started with a passionate on-the-mouth male kiss...
...Others convey all the enchanting density of Garcia Marquez's fiction at its best. In The Saint, a man from the Colombian Andes takes the miraculously preserved body of his daughter, dead at age seven and exhumed 11 years later to make way for a dam, to Rome to seek her canonization by the church. When the story ends, 22 years later, he is still waiting, another outsider absorbed into the rhythms of the Eternal City...
...cool, calm respite from the political strife that dominates the movie, and its diffused, early-morning lighting and wide stretches of green lilypads give it an almost dream-like quality. When Dieyi succumbs to opium addiction later in the film, Kaige focuses on a giant fish bowl to convey his trapped, drugged state, out of which he is forced by the will of Xiaolou...