Word: copings
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...Hornschemeier explores the nature of melancholy and bereavement and the ways people find to cope. That he does this by using the unique language of comics is what makes "Mother" so fascinating. For example, the opening dream-like sequence depicts Thomas' father floating around an empty landscape, looking for someone. The colors are muted and deadened. It's a strange scene that through its visual queues sets the tone of the father's state of mind. When Thomas arrives, the colors brighten. At other times the drawing style will "degrade" to a child-like simplicity where all the characters...
...Monti and Neill are both women, and while gay and heterosexual couples have plenty of issues in common, there are big differences as well. Gay couples have to cope daily with homophobia, says Robert-Jay Green, a psychologist in San Francisco. An even bigger problem is a lack of clarity about commitment. "In research samples, the average length of same-sex-couple relationships tends to be about six years," says Green, "compared to around 18 for heterosexuals...
...than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages. And now, you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your...
...Bam’s infrastructure was leveled, the relief team had to cope with very limited resources. The team performed surgeries with bottled water and built shelves out of cardboard boxes held by duct tape...
...medical specialists had to cope with cultural differences as well...