Word: finer
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...even officially on campus—they are not recognized by the University and their property is held by their own trusts. They’re not big on affirmative action or gender equality and are generally derided as, at best, places where you can discuss the finer points of tweeds, cigars and sherry. At their worst they are described as places that are simply not safe if you like your sex consensual...
...gain and little to lose from being less like Philadelphia in 1787. While the framers of the U.S. Constitution held meetings in secret to deal with the pressure of stabilizing a nation, the Curricular Review would be well served by initiating a substantive dialogue about the details and finer points of proposals with a broader audience. Presenting the community with specific plans and putting them up for discussion might help transform what has thus far been a relatively legless and rather visionless operation. When audiences are part of an ongoing dialogue and informed about the true status of decisions, they...
...notes of a lover, “Yeah, you are living life the way you feel, and that is real.” It’s when this earnestness reaches the right balance with Kweller’s admiration of his musical predecessors that the finer moments of the album occur, as on the title track and the sweetly melodic ballad “Living Life...
...President’s floating parties down the Mississippi River, and spent hours on his cell phone procuring ingredients for a campaign treat: s’mores in ziplock bags labeled “Think s’more, vote for Gore.” He even debated the finer points of Spanish grammar with the presidential hopeful...
...more human and frightening: it’s clear that he thinks of himself as an intelligent sophisticate living the life of his dreams, with no remorse. It is because he is so capable of love—of women, art and food, life’s finer pleasures—that we can’t dismiss him, something Cavani plays up. It is this contrast that made Hannibal Lecter so scary in The Silence of the Lambs and so empty in Hannibal: his pleasure and thus the audience’s pleasure in his pleasure was lost...