Word: drift
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...cannot forget this for a single instant. Levy’s deliberate manner and wild-eyed intensity, therefore, are excellent reflections of the rapacity with which Hedda focuses on each new element of awfulness in her life. One cannot expect a character tormented by her own constant misery to drift off into abstraction and forget her train of thought...
...Roosevelt pursued a bellicose foreign policy but an increasingly liberal policy at home, one less beholden to business interests and friendlier to workers and the environment than the conservative wing of his party would have liked. After he left the White House, he was increasingly disappointed by the rightward drift of his handpicked successor, William Howard Taft. Before Taft's first term was up, Roosevelt was ready to challenge him for the G.O.P. nomination...
...minutes or 20, then meander out again, perhaps because they do not wish to seem foolish or infatuated enough to stick around for the best part of an afternoon. There are no gasps from the crowd as he rearranges his arms, no ripples of delight as a flickering smile drifts across his face. We sit before him in respectful, half-blushing silence. "They said it was like Michelangelo, and I think it is," says Anna Carin Hollstrum, a 51-year-old administrator from Sweden. She and her husband have lingered only a few minutes before heading back out into...
...first year as dean, 45 percent of students in the school’s master’s of public policy (MPP) program took private sector jobs after graduation. According to Mena, Nye “was alarmed that we were suffering ‘mission drift...
...longer worry about ‘mission drift,’” Mena wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson. “Our challenge now, appropriately, is affording to hold on to these gains...