Word: decentering
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...decorations--are like someone driving on a winding road through a forest at night: they can see as far as their headlights and not much farther. It is their work to start the engine, switch on the lights and set off down that road. They must try to be decent and intelligent, but they are not responsible for the destination...
That sounded decent, but his next bit of information cost me a few hair follicles--only two of them had ever played baseball before, while every other team had more experience than us. The Bad News Bears immediately popped into my mind, in addition to Nancy Kerrigan's infamous...
...brothers Zucker, but you wouldn't guess that from the trailer. This one is James Bond with some Speed gags thrown in: the bus driver is Ray Charles ("Next stop, Melrose--I think"). No way to tell if the humor is sustained, since any farce will have enough decent gags to stock a trailer...
...pieces that many colleagues regarded as traitorous. The aspect of my first book, Mirror Worlds, that attracted the most attention was the debate between pro- and antitechnology alter egos; my skeptical side won. I'd also published attacks on the use of computers in school. Parents plead for a decent education in the basics, reading and writing and history and arithmetic, and too many teachers respond with vacuous fun and games with computers...
...general, the women in "A Family Thing"--Aunt T., Mrs. Pilcher, Ray's and Earl's mother--are too saintly to be true, while the men are either churls (like Pilcher, Sr.) or burdened by a huge chip on the shoulder. Like balky horses, they must be forced into decent, sensible behavior by their womenfolk. "A Family Thing" would probably have been more convincing had nobility and selfishness been more evenly divided between the two sexes...