Word: expected
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...manufacturer can't just muscle its way into the $5 billion pain-killing industry and not expect resistance. Even before the FDA acted, the cox-1 forces were faxing inflammatory press releases to all takers...
Expelled from school--you can't expect him to keep his grades up with all those extracurriculars nagging at him--Max goes ballistically obsessive in his passion for the teacher. And his friendship with Blume turns into a nasty, near murderous rivalry. Suddenly Max is no longer quite as adorable as we thought he was. And an often deft, frequently droll little movie turns into an increasingly desperate juggling act, first trying to keep too many dark and weighty emotional objects aloft, then trying to bring them back to hand in a graceful and satisfying way. The goodwill Rushmore...
...great tragedy of The Conversion is that we, as readers, find it so difficult to feel sorry for the characters in spite of their monstrously tragic lives. Rather than the passionate emotion one would expect in a story of conversion and cultural abandonment, The Conversion leaves the reader unaffected, apathetic in spite of the moral importance of the issues at hand. In a way, Appelfeld is teaching by example. By convincing the reader that conversion is no more than an economic transaction, and humanity characterized by little more than greed and self-interest, he shows the ease with which...
More than anything else, the choice of music defined the Mainly Jazz company's sense of creativity, Mainly Jazz audiences generally have come to expect the same brand of familiar dance-remixes and popular R&B hits nearly every year--credit goes to this fall's talented set of Mainly Jazz choreographers who made each number seem startlingly original...
Some of his insights are surprising. Contrary to what one might expect, Sullivan views the AIDS epidemic as providing a source of solidarity to the gay community, by empowering the same segment of the population it decimated. After seeing friends and lovers die a protracted death, Sullivan claims that homosexual men refuse to let such suffering be for naught. He claims, in short, that AIDS has provided an impetus to the movement for gay rights. Much of the book, in fact, discusses the struggle to obtain equal rights for gays. Sullivan personally makes an impassioned argument for the recognition...