Word: depth
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...detail itself that feels flat. Unpredictability becomes expected, and unexpected depth becomes predictable. Some of the book’s deepest and potentially most moving revelations get lost in the cavalcade of surprises, turning the lack of cliché into a cliché in and of itself. She changes directions so many times that occasionally it's difficult to remember which...
...Even I, who have tried to get a grip on Muslim suicide bombing, was stunned by the depth of the brainwashing. I'd never seen anything like it. So I asked the question, What religion is Musharraf, the president of Pakistan? He's a Jew, the Taliban had assured Farhad...
...entire firm. Anyone can weigh in. And when the analyst thinks it's time to change the firm's exposure to a stock, the first stop is a sector committee, made up of people who know an industry well and can drill down to test the idea in depth. "The nature of this business is that you're going to be wrong a lot of the time," says Diana Strandberg, who sits on the committees that pick domestic and international stocks. "We're all in it together...
After three days on the road with John Edwards in some of the poorest places in America, it's not only the depth of human need that hits you, but the layered and interlocking complexity of it - the way a complete lack of health care, for instance, can all by itself consign someone to ignorance and joblessness. But you're also struck by how so many of the people who have been dealt these difficult hands manage to play them with grace and fortitude. That may sound trite to some ears, but it probably wouldn't to anyone...
...Teens come in far below young adults as far as the depth of exposure to news, their ability to recall having seen it and recalling facts about it,” Patterson said. “I think it confirms what surveys have said, that young people are not overly attentive to news...