Word: disabusedness
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Projects there are selected by review boards composed of the applicant's scientific peers, and the entire process is largely designed and run by the academic community. This is not to say that criteria for project selection are impeccable. There certainly are cases in which bad choices have been made...
WHAT Ungaretti drew from the War was the peculiar knowledge of a "disabused modern consciousness," not d'Annunzio's heroic myth of the theatrical, but rather the awareness of anonymity and other sorrows. Influenced more by Giacomo Leopardi, the great Italian poet of the nineteenth century, and by MallarmÃ?...
Kiddies' Aspirin. Critics who thought that Goddard was going too far too fast, and was likely to have higher authority slam on the brakes, were disabused of that notion by President Johnson's message to Congress on consumer interests. The President said he had appointed Goddard to give...
Not surprisingly, the Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeal disabused the Coop of the notion that it could simply commandeer a city street for its private purposes. But the time and expense involved in redrawing the plans to include off-street loading facilities must have been as great as they were...
Feeding out the play's entangling plot lines are Sidney Brustein (Gabriel Dell), a disabused idealist who still quivers at the drop of a line from Thoreau, and his wife Iris (Rita Moreno), a would-be Duse who is ready, to stoop to TV commercials. They would rather bicker...