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McCarthy also offered some observations about his Democratic opponent's literary preferences. "Carter's not much for poetry...(or) metaphor," McCarthy said, adding that the president's speeches rely heavily on adverbs and adjectives, two parts of speech which, in McCarthy's opinion, fail to convey philosophical meaning...
Modern sex research, as represented by John Gagnon in Human Sexualities, has greatly expanded the scientific understanding of bisexuality, homosexuality and variations thereof. Interdisciplinary investigations of human sexual expression as it appears in real life, convey a vastly more positive view of sexual variation than do older generalities derived from narrow and unrepresentative clinical cases...
...result of a collapse of a syllable, such as emb-, ned-, enk-, etc.; at any rate, they are quite widespread throughout Africa. One interesting feature of many African languages is the proliferation of ideophones. These are special words, sometimes referred to as nouns, sometimes as adjectives or adverbs, which convey a kind of idea-in-sound and add emotion or vividness to the dimension of a description. They are often onomatopoeic, but convey aspects that are not necessarily associated with sounds, especially in English--such as manner, color, taste, smell, silence, action, condition, texture, gait, posture or intensity. To students...
...development of " 15 theses" that describe the nature of the Bible. His most controversial material, however, is left for Volume III. In this section Henry will defend the belief that the Bible was totally error-proof ("inerrant") when it was originally written, and that later copies and translations "convey the truth of revelation in reliable verbal form...
...Leon Eisenberg, Presley Professor of Psychiatry, affirms in an essay on "The Search for Care" that if medical faculty do not convey the importance of primary care, it will be regarded as "trivial, boring and beneath the dignity of a professional physician." He also points out, however, that many of medicine's apparent shortcomings result from patients' expectations that emdicine will fill emotional needs once taken care of by more cohesive families and stronger religious faith. No simple policy decision can make families tight or churches popular. While doctors cannot be expected to replace these institutions, it would be wise...