Word: effective
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...counterfeit intimacy, but his oily modulations couldn't erase the public's suspicion of phoniness; a salesman can't close the deal if his prospective customers know what they're hearing is just a pitch. On TV, his stabs at an intimate geniality showed the effort more than the effect, as if invisible wires were pulling his mouth into a smile. This was the Nixon so easily caricatured by political cartoonists and comedy impressionists; Langella gets all these elements but adds a certain poignant grandeur...
...professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, has yet to exhaust the continuing relevance of Shakespeare’s works in contemporary society. Garber’s scholarly project is to emphasize that literature is not a static entity, but rather a dynamic force that can effect change. For instance, in “Coming of Age in Shakespeare,” she broached issues regarding identity and sexuality as seen in Shakespeare’s plays and related them to modern cultural trends. “I want to emphasize the way literature can have an effect upon...
...energetic hooks while adding a little flavor to them. Toward the middle of the album, the Killers get a little too experimental, creating a train of hyper-mixed tracks and nonsensical lyrics. Because each of these songs lacks a strong beat to hold on to, they have the counterintuitive effect of bleeding together into one incoherent, continuous mess. Unlike with the Killer’s previous album, “Sam’s Town,” Flowers did not make the mistake of calling “Day & Age” “one of the best...
Junior No. 5 Katherine O’Donnell used corner and drop shots to great effect to record the most lopsided win of the day with a 9-0, 9-0, 9-1 pounding that that was over in 20 minutes...
...Consider that the multi-billion-dollar scale of Enron executives’ criminal conduct and its destructive effect on innocent people dwarfs the ant scam; however, former CEO Jeffrey Skilling received just 24 years in prison, and two of his associates (and accomplices) could win parole after just five years behind bars...