Word: deigns
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...play unofficially with students, filming the process for a documentary called The Vagina Monologues: Stories From China. The play ran title and all, thanks, Ai says, to a moratorium on press before opening night. It's a lesson for would-be directors and social activists alike. If you deign to bring sex out of the bedroom, be discrete. You can say "vagina" in China. Just don't shout...
...talked proudly of branding and luxury groups... Maybe the more sober business climate will put more emphasis on creativity.” Many designers at last week’s New York Fashion Week showed collections that were demure, either fearful that their clientele would not deign to purchase more outlandish clothing this coming fall, or that customers would be focusing instead on updating old standards, like coats and suits. Others, namely Marc Jacobs, chose to hearken back to times that they remember as freer or happier—the 1980s. They tended to become subsumed in their own nostalgia...
...course, that someone bothers to create more courses that actually count toward General Education. “Harvard time”—the colloquial name given our unofficial seven-minute lateness-amnesty window—is a venerable institution here. We question, then, why would anyone deign change it? Are students truly so sluggish that seven minutes is an insufficient ambulatory period? We are rarely late to our classes. Perhaps it’s because our bodies are in peak physical condition. Or maybe it’s just because we rarely attend class. But why bother going...
Poor people in America are too often seen as parasites who must prove that they deserve assistance, even when the job market, the education and health care system, and the shortage of affordable housing make survival tenuous for so many Americans. But the help we deign to provide comes with strings that tie up poor people’s worth as human beings into their status as dependents. We suddenly gain the authority to tell them how they ought to live and even attempt to sterilize them, as if a human’s worth to a society were solely...
...clad in black, and he had allowed his hair to grow long and shaggy.The look did not suit him, Felicity thought dispassionately.“Good afternoon, dear,” Frederick began hesitantly. “I trust you are recovered?”Felicity did not deign to reply.“Felicity,” he said again, with more force this time, “When are we going home?”“This is our only home,” she said with heartbreaking finality.“Feefs...