Word: focused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They are indeed a part of the Chinese film history and repertoire. But they alone are insufficient, more variety is called for. The existence of those films adds to the color of the overall Chinese film industry. But it's more important to have films that focus on the day-to-day lives of the modern Chinese people...
...other times, he writes with a contemporary lyricism that brings to life, however anachronistically, the thoughts and feelings of an ancient people: "what we are actually given to know about God from the Bible itself...is no consistent and harmonious portrait but rather a set of often out-of-focus, and sometimes apparently contradictory, snapshots, action photos from different angles and in different lighting." As the author of his own translations, Kugel pays special attention to issues of philological and linguistic debate and includes detailed notes on his own poetic renderings. Indeed, it is often through these remarks on verbal...
Leave it to all those suffering literary souls on campus to labor away over their novels and sonnets. All you have to do is find what you like to read, and ignore what you don't. Now pay attention: in addition to the focus-specific publications (in which the content in every issue relates to the theme or idea), we have web-based publications (some pretty awesome ones, at that), and some types of literary magazines unique to Harvard. If Harvard truly had any smart people, there would be one central location where you could pick up a copy...
...father, Karolj Seles, was the anti-tennis father, the exception amidst a crowd of money-hungry entrepreneurs pushing their sons and daughters for that extra endorsement, that last exhibition. He was a gentle man, a cartoonist who drew caricatures on tennis balls to get young Monica to focus on the ball when she hit her punishing groundstrokes...
...course, Albanian might mean something to Vaux, who speaks five or six languages. "Badly. And I'm not good at accents. I can read about 20 languages. But this is not the focus of linguistics these days. People focus on the structure of languages instead of learning how to speak them well...