Word: disturbance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally my mama who initiated the momentous discussion. Although I must have given her enough signals to disturb an already uneasy maternal sense. One of the first things I did upon my return was to toss at her, unopened, the box of condoms she had sent me (doubtless as some coded test), but I also peroxided my hair and dropped barbed criticisms about what was once our common favorite political party...
...provocative statements, explosive insights and highly ingenious teaching aids, only to be met with complete silence. We can almost hear them thinking, "just when is lunch?" It's as though the class as a whole is trying not to wake the baby. It seems such a shame to disturb the peace with idle chit-chat. At moments like these, we TFs think to ourselves, "I really should have gone into investment banking like Mom and Dad said. Perhaps from now on, I can just show them movies...
...bizarre." Choi comments, "I think it works on the show 'Ally McBeal.' I like the show, so its fine." Lee has his own reasons for reacting positively to the baby, claiming, "I wish I could dance like the baby, that baby has moves." "People have told me that it disturbs them. But it doesn't disturb me at all. They need to chill--its a dancing baby...
...encroaches on student liberty. Studentshave a right to a smoke-free environment but wheresmoking doesn't disturb others the College shouldnot ban it," she added...
...moral price. Our profitable fantasy culture has set up a resonance by which, in the minds of children, a murderous dream of revenge, say, slips easily through the looking glass into actuality. The greater our creativity, in some sense the more we disturb the ecology, the balance of nature, between the universes of fantasy and actuality. Naturally, this disturbance is most dramatically manifested in children, who lack the reality-testing resources of experience and self-possession to make the necessary distinctions, and to subdue the animals that sometimes get loose in their brains...