Word: fide
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...Mere originality is not noteworthy. And “originality” so overtly forced is overbearing and dull. Even less convincing are the attempts scattered throughout “The Abbatoir” at accompanying the themes and motifs of animals, the elemental and the bona fide American, with a feigned exoticism. This takes the form of meaningless phrases that refer to “Abroad”—typically Europe. Thus we read of “Italian Bees Grazing a Table in August”; never mind that the fact that they are Italian...
...topics by discussing two randomly drawn Apples to Apples cards. Conversation will certainly steam up when someone draws the green card “tasty” and the red card “Helen Keller.” 4. Harvard students have been clamoring for a bona fide student union since before integration! Now is the hour to feed the beast! Imagine a student union that is a blend of an amusement park and a twelve-year-old’s Jar Jar Binks-themed birthday party. Me-sa wants a big underwater rollie coastie. Imagine...
...since Lehman Brothers collapsed have been rather eventful—a presidential election, A.I.G.’s bailout, Citigroup’s bailout, a 2,000 point decrease in the Dow, Iceland becoming insolvent, a requested bailout for the Big Three automakers, and as of Monday a bona fide, American-made recession. Because of all of this, it’s easy to forget what started this debacle—the subprime mortgage fiasco. If you’ve forgotten, then I’d suggest Michael Lewis’s recent article in Portfolio.com...
Perhaps not, but as the only white Evangelical in the prospective quartet, Hunter would be a good candidate for the next President's bridge to white Evangelicalism, which he courted on Election Day but had only marginal success in winning over. Hunter is a bona fide megapastor in Orlando, Fla., and and a longtime mover in the Evangelical world. "For a long time now, Joel has been directly politically engaged as a Christian leader, in a nuanced and multifaceted way," notes Andy Crouch, editor of the Vision Project at the Evangelical monthly Christianity Today. On a number of key positions...
...Also, the race course is short. It is sailed many times. This involves a lot of turning. How 18 boats all sailing around the same tiny buoy manage not to hit each other…in my opinion, a bona fide miracle. In reality, a whole lot of technical skill...