Word: disarrays
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...drives it away with its intangibility. Mamet's lines dance around an unspecified issue of human nature with references to characters in the play to anchor the conversation. But mostly it seems the characters are just spouting their philosophy of life even when their own lives are obviously in disarray...
Kentucky, last year's champion, will have all sorts of trouble without guard Derek Anderson. However, it--thanks to star sophomore Ron Mercer--will be able to compensate until the championship game, where the Wildcats will fall to Kansas. Wake Forest's backcourt is in disarray, and Utah almost lost twice in the WAC tournament...
...bilingual world of North Country college hockey, only a slap-shot away from the Ontario border, these are the words which no visiting team wants to take home from Clarkson and St. Lawrence. Travel for light years, throw your sleep schedule into total disarray...and still get nothing tangible from your journey? Such is the ECAC's version of death by the rack...
...mansions and never has to worry about getting stuck in traffic or mowing the lawn. More grandly, polls show he has won the approval of a large majority of his countrymen, who only three months ago re-upped his contract in an Electoral landslide. His political adversaries are in disarray, and he's on a first-name basis with Sharon Stone. So life, for Clinton, is good...
...unremarked upon by early ecclesiastics trying to create systems of Scripture-based faith. St. Jerome, who translated the Word from Hebrew into Latin, grumbled that many of the narratives were "rude and repellent." A medieval rabbi, borrowing an image from the story of Noah's drunken disarray after the Flood (9: 21), suggested that "as dutiful children, let us cover the nakedness of our fathers in the cloak of favorable interpretation." Something of the sort eventually occurred. The Christian church developed a set of interpretations according to which the patriarchs prefigure Christians as heroes of faith. The Jewish Midrash, although...