Word: devoide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fierce pharmacist, Tamara Bechina, who supports Zyuganov, had this explanation: "They voted for Yeltsin because they're benighted. They voted for Yeltsin because their bosses 'suggested' they do so." The village doctor, Lyubov Chuvikova, will also vote for Zyuganov in the second round. "Life has never been as devoid of hope...
...grounds of quality of scholarship (he notes pointedly that one of its members is Paul Verhoeven, whose credit as director of the movie Showgirls is far more recent than his Ph.D.), but on prior agreement on a goal. The goal, he maintains, is to discover a Jesus devoid of anything "mythical" or concerned with the actual possibility of a world to come, but reflective instead of the countercultural attitude favored by liberal academics. Although Johnson approves of some of the criteria the group applies to Scripture, he is derisive of its elimination of most long passages (members of oral cultures...
...said he didn't have the temperament or patience to deal with a process devoid of a centralized bureaucratic structure. Instead of one agency with strong central budgetary control over the entire University, each of Harvard's schools is largely financially autonomous with its own procedures, concerns and administrators...
...sponsor some kind of Christmas dinner and adorn their dining halls with Yuletide decorations. House masters pay for most of these events, often using University money to sponsor them. Such events are often defended as religiously neutral, and though I don't agree, I will say that they are devoid of religious content...
...find a middle ground between an insipid, iconographic form of religion and a house life devoid of it completely? We can, and we should. Interest in religion is burgeoning at Harvard, as demonstrated by the nascent but extremely active Interfaith Forum. Religion shapes many students' lives and is therefore a wonderul context for housemates to learn about each other. To ensure that this happens, events or displays should be limited to those that are open to all members of the house and which truly educate people about a religious tradition. That means saying no to Christmas trees...