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...notice that your roommate starts her six page paper at 8:30 p.m. and magically finishes it in time to watch “Lost” at nine, perhaps she is getting a little “external help,” if you catch my drift. In this case, you should politely inform her that “a cheater makes the lily pad wilt” (fortune cookie, he Hong Kong Restaurant...
Even more worrisome to many youth ministers was the Barna survey finding that 61% of the adults polled who are now in their 20s said they had participated in church activities as teens but no longer do. Some experts point out that young people typically drift from organized religion in early adulthood, but others say the high attrition is a sign that churches need to change the way they try to engage the next generation of the faithful. "This dip should serve as an exhortation for everyone to be about the business of discipleship, missions and a higher calling than...
...later, equally addictive track, appropriately entitled “Nicotine,” inspires the feeling of blissful laziness. Leading with a quiet snare drum-roll followed by Sciubba’s languid lyrics that drift through the song like smoke, the song has the effect of an ocean shore or an open field...
...indifference to actually consummating their royal alliance), she suffers the sort of humiliations and personal tragedies that can only exist in the contrived world of an assembled and isolated ruling elite. Marie’s universe is precisely the sort of place where well dressed courtiers drift languidly through Versailles’ well manicured gardens and say silly things like “Oh how I do love the country” without a modicum of ironic inflection.In its depiction of Marie’s private life, the film is gentle and forgiving. Through Coppola’s lens, Marie?...
...Levinson’s disgust, as in a presidential debate scene where Dobbs dispenses with the rules and rants for several minutes about how politicos never deliver substantive messages. Yet, despite the anger and exasperation behind his words (and the laughs that result), Williams almost never lets himself drift into his typical loud, acerbic humor...