Word: fathoming
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...heroines of Breillat's best films are younger than the Baise-moi babes: girls trying to fathom sex and romance while in the sights of some very avid men. Fat Girl, Breillat's latest and best work, divides the heroine in two: Elena (Roxane Mesquida), a pretty 15-year-old who already knows her aphrodisiac effect on men, and her sister Anais (Anais Reboux)--fat, sullen and full of resentful love for the girl who invites, into the bedroom they share, a horny rich kid for a night of extended erotic negotiation...
...that the Arab world has a "certain fixation on the past" and has not established the free press, trade unions and civil society necessary for debating matters related to the common good. Nor have we resolved the question of political legitimacy. We in the Arab world seem unable to fathom the principle that charity starts at home. Unrest is never our fault. It is time for us to realize that we have to fix our own world first, that we actually do have some control of our destiny and that the West is not our enemy. All proud Arabs must...
...possible to glimpse New York City's future. How long will it be before there is a memorial gift shop in Battery Park that sells children's books called Let's Talk About Anger? Visitors look at the 168 chairs standing sentry at the pristine memorial and try to fathom 5,000. At the anniversary of the Oklahoma City blast, people traditionally stand in silence one second for each victim--168 seconds, or nearly three minutes, which feels excruciating. To do the same in New York City would take almost an hour and a half...
Purdy separates the good from the bad irony, and, he explains that many people who said irony was dead did so because no could fathom any more crude mockery of everything after Sept. 11. The problem is apparently that the definition of irony was sloppy to begin with...
Obvious to most, these students couldn’t fathom the disconnect between the university community and the real world...