Word: conveys
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...Heart, are perhaps inevitable. While both movies depict a family's struggle to hold on to its land in the face of greedy bureaucracy, Places uses this struggle as a tool to develop plot and character. Country, on the other hand, in its overly anxious attempt to convey a political message, fails to give any depth to its characters and leaves us mere ideology in the place...
...supplement and support the academic disciplines. It is to introduce students to forms of learning and communication which have their own power, validity, and application, and which offer alternatives to the symbolic modes of words and figures and to the ways of knowing and feeling that they can convey...
Peck, who choreographed and directed the entire production, says that the dancers attempted to convey "how city relationships are affected by the pulse and pressure of urban life." The troupe will continue to incorporate the theme of urban life in the new show it will produce this semester, Peck added...
...chaotic surface, "a beautifully organized society." Coming from someone else, this perception might seem dopey or romantic. Naipaul's authority, which this book reinforces, makes the judgment inescapable. He not only tells the West what it wants to hear, he is uniquely born, trained and qualified to convey information that everyone needs to know. -By Paul Gray
...film's weakest point, however, lies in the ironies it attempts to convey. The pillars of the community who double as klansmen, the ignorant white businessman who is outsmarted by the uneducated black are characters already made familiar in such portrayals of the South as "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Roots". Nonetheless, some of the contrasts--and this is indeed a film of deftly edited contrapuntals--are at times quite effective and convey the juxtaposition of cruelty, with suprising tenderness that is at the heart of the southern tradition...