Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will "try to play aggressively, and not dwell on the fact that they have no losses," Burroughs said...
...just decorative trim around the grand mystery of why anything or any law exists. But by reminding us of our deep cosmic ignorance, science, far from dulling the mystery of existence, sharpens it the way garlic wafting on the evening breeze whets your appetite. It reminds us that we dwell in a mystery that is ultimately more to be savored than solved...
...downside of independence is isolation, and it's in this psychological Kalahari that non-American kid movies dare to dwell. Some of 1992's most ; provocative and poignant European films -- Toto le Heros, Olivier Olivier and The Long Day Closes, to be released in the U.S. in May -- are about children whom cruelty or circumstance forces to create a world of their own. Il Ladro di Bambini has this theme. The state has removed two children (Valentina Scalici and Giuseppe Ieracitano) from their mother's care, since for two years she has forced the girl, 11, to be a child...
...safe to say that people attend Harvard for its academics. Upon receiving acceptance letters, high school seniors bask in the invitation to attend the supposedly number-one university in the solar system. They don't dwell on Harvard's shortcomings...
...have a pathetic fear of rejection. People usually ask each other out when it's a sure thing. Thus, a lot of opportunities are missed. The pain of rejection is overrated--when a relationship is working well, the individuals involved don't dwell on past rejections...