Word: formality
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...play itself is a highly dramatic take on the moral gray areas hidden behind the black and white habits of a Catholic middle school in the 1960s. Where formal propriety has overtaken ethical responsibility and the appearance of certainty is all that remains, the characters struggle to reconcile order and truth. Jones leads the cast as Sister Aloysius, a teacher who plows headfirst through level after level of rigid Catholic bureaucracy to protect her students from the sexual advances of Father Flynn (Chris McGarry), a popular priest...
...formal qualities of the photographs focus on the physical building and treat the marginally-placed children as mere units of account—their illegible faces indicating the temporality of their stay...
...matter to everyone, and not just English majors or people who devote all their time to poetry or studying poetry or writing poetry,” she says. Boudreau, who is writing a collection of poetry for her senior thesis, is no stranger to the more formal and technical aspects of poetry composition. Yet, she says she is especially happy when a physics or math concentrator, who may not completely understand the difference between an iamb and a dactyl, gets the courage to perform an original poem in front of an audience. “A lot of the poems...
...studies of pragmatism and consciousness were foundational in their fields, a group of chatting Harvard professors does not a maelstrom make. While he may be the source of the term “stream of consciousness” as applied to mental processes, James had little patience for formal innovations in art and literature, even scorning much of his brother Henry’s work as overly experimental. Despite these flaws, Richardson’s book will occupy a comfortable place at the center of contemporary James biographies for years to come. Richardson is especially good at tracing particular James...
...quite likely that there'll be a discussion on the 13th, with perhaps a formal vote at the March meeting to 'accept' the report and for me to establish a working group to prepare the legislation (that must include timetables, implementation, etc.)," Knowles wrote in an e-mail...