Word: decentering
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...McVeigh, but there is a catch-all provision that allows it to bring in the background, record and character of the defendant. Accordingly, Jones will call witnesses from McVeigh's past with the hope of humanizing him and showing that up until April 19, 1995, he was a decent young man and fine soldier. Richard Burr, a soft-spoken death-penalty expert who is conducting the defense case in the penalty phase, told the jury that McVeigh is a man "who could be your son, who could be your brother, who could be your grandson...
Virgil, seen here, is decent, ordinary and a bit slow. Not a good match, the reader feels, for the shrewd Virgil of the next section, who reluctantly accepts the stony verdict of his family and acquaintances, including the local sheriff, that he must kill the man who murdered his wild brother Boyd. The author does his impressive best to make this believable, writing a drunk scene in which Virgil sprawls on his back in the night woods and stares at the Milky Way. Virgil sobers up and, as efficiently as a spy-story villain, creates an elaborate false identity...
...proceeded to then qualify for the ECAC Championships, never a mean feat, but only Luis put two decent rounds together. His 77-77 tied him for 10th overall--but our team 351 in the second round was a number to erase. My 88 in round two was our second-best number--the other players' identities and scores are being withheld to protect the innocent...
...intelligent, competent and well-liked," Dumas recalls. "I found him a particularly decent...
...STILL CAN'T HANDLE THE TOUGH STUFF, said the headline on a Boston Globe article that noted how much trouble machines have understanding a sentence or telling a dog from a cat. Britain's Daily Telegraph observed that computers "cannot be properly original" and that there is still no "decent tennis-playing robot." Thus were the Telegraph's readers assured that they and their kind remain "nature's last word...