Word: devoide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bring a sense of urgency to a defensive unit too often devoid of energy. Additionally, both are shooting above 50 percent from the floor, and can create opportunities for teammates with penetration and passing skills...
...1980s left a quarter of all American schools without libraries and many of those remaining manned by untrained volunteers. "I had no idea what I was doing," recalls fifth-grade teacher Marc Waxman of entering the profession five years ago. After walking into a New Jersey classroom that was devoid of books, funding or guidance, he borrowed and bought on his own, wandering up and down the Barnes & Noble aisles "with no idea of what was appropriate or inappropriate, just my judgment...
...shocking conclusion for a team that lost just one player from a year ago, but it seems accurate. An offense historically devoid of motion away from the ball has turned glacially stagnant...
...possible that religious identity can define your entire being? Can you escape from your past? Call them heavy, but Appelfeld merely suggests these questions without hammering them into our consciousness, enabling us to swallow them all in measured doses without feeling stifled. His prose is invariably elegant and devoid of strong emotion, compelling us to distance ourselves from the situation at hand...
...people who had a special perspective" on the riots. The interviews were first incarnate as a one-woman show and most recently have been published in book form. Because of the original one-woman format, and also because the material comes from one-on-one interviews, the performance is devoid of dialogue or character interaction. Generally, such a format would risk looking like an acting exercise, but in Twilight it implicitly explains one of the reasons behind the riots. Chang notes that "each character lives in a box, limited by experience and what they know." The lack of interaction speaks...