Word: deafness
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Such voices do exist in the Arab world, but their words either fall on deaf ears, are muted by biased media or are drowned out in a sea of anger and bombings...
...juicier tale. It has a lovely performance by Kirsten Dunst as Marion Davies, Hearst's beloved mistress; she makes us see why someone might kill to keep her love. But the rest of the boaters (including Charlie Chaplin) are presented as idiot farceurs. The result is tiresome and tone-deaf and a disappointing comeback for Bogdanovich...
...students who addressed the crowd expressed their frustration at what they deemed Summers’ “unresponsiveness” to their efforts to increase the diversity of Harvard’s curriculum. They expressed concern that their conventional methods for pushing for reform have fallen on deaf ears...
...says members have not turned a deaf ear to the concerns of new members...
...could many another fan. Here are just a dozen favorites that I couldn't fit in elsewhere: "Watch me run a 50-yard dash with my legs cut off." ... "You're dead, son, get yourself buried." ... "I often wish I were deaf and wore a hearing aid - with a simple flick of the switch I could shut out the greedy murmur of little men." ... "I love this dirty town." ... "My right hand hasn't seen my left hand in 30 years." ... "Cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river." ... "He's got the morals...