Word: demandingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That mystical bond with the people kept social discontent in check even as Aristide displayed no talent for governance. He promised food, jobs, justice; he delivered nothing. Three weeks ago, he ordered an official to broadcast the names of 1,000 citizens who should come to the National Palace to...
"Figaro" is not demanding in the same way as a Verdi or Wagner opera; sheer volume and range are less important here than lyric grace and vocal agility. But in some of Mozart's more convoluted ensembles--"Figaro" boasts several scenes in which more than six people are singing simultaneously...
DURING ITS 54 WEEKS ON THE air, the WB netlet has produced the sort of programming that requires viewers to suspend disbelief far too strenuously. The sitcom Kirk, for example, asks us to accept that Kirk Cameron could be a Greenwich Village illustrator raising three children and dating a doctor...
According to the 1995-1996 Handbook for Students, concentrating in history and literature "is a demanding and at times frustrating enterprise, but can be immensely rewarding as well."
"It's a pretty demanding major and it's pretty confusing," Friedman says. "You end up taking courses in so many departments."