Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attitude for someone who has made public her years in a mental hospital, but even in her book, Kaysen maintains a distance. She does not answer nearly as many questions as she raises, including the ultimate one of whether she should have been hospitalized at all. Nor does she dwell on the details of her own history. Instead Kaysen concentrates on describing what life in a psychiatric ward is really like. That approach gives Girl, Interrupted its feeling of universality and makes Kaysen seem like Everypatient to a grateful readership...
...team's three seniors, and for those who would choose to dwell on the 1993-94 campaign, hard-core analysis will likely be eschewed in favor of more fanciful thoughts, and memories will instantly flip back to that February night when the team that "could have been...
...reading this list of bloody crimes, I had to conclude these guns have no purpose but to kill a lot of people very rapidly," said Hyde. "It wasn't like falling off a horse on the road to Damascus. But like many things complicated and emotional, you don't dwell on them unless forced to. Then somebody grabs you by the collar when there's a vote coming up, the pieces fit together and you say to yourself, 'This is wrong...
...calling Jews "blood-suckers" and other epithets during speeches at Kean College and Howard University. He advocated that Jews be killed, and then killed again, because "they didn't die hard enough." And he evinced understanding for Nazi Germany's genocide of the Jews, suggesting that we mustn't dwell too much on remembering the Holocaust...
...women glide in glided halls. From out of the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn or condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil...