Word: genericizing
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Anyway, certain issues as generic to the character of the human condition as the one Jeffrey Vanke and I are debating--the issue of under what circumstances can perpetrators of massive cruelty and evil toward other human beings be considered morally restored to the humanitarian side of the Christian value system and community--can very well remain issues we disagree on. Such serious and awesome intellectual matters do not require a final answer, Mr. Vanke. I do, however, grant Jeffrey Vanke his morally vacuous formulation--his intellectual right to it--when he observes that "I do have a choice....There...
...opening scene seems straight out of a music video: minimalist stage, stark light, four actors encased in fashionably generic black and red. The impeccably timed dancing, emotionless and overtly sexual; the music, driving and anonymous. A heavily stylized plot takes shape--man fondles woman, who pulls away; another woman claws said man toward her--dominated by the same aggressively heterosexual assumptions that pervade MTV. The talons of this brand of "savage love" are thickly lacquered and varnished. And it's the ritualization of this savagery that makes it seem all the more deadly...
...times they sound somewhat generic, but Loud Lucy manages to create an original sound amidst the influence of its predecessors. In tracks like "On the Table," "I'll Wait," "Breathe" and "Clear World," we can easily see the debt they owe to other more recognized bands, but Lane puts his own stamp on the songs. He says that he wanted the album to be "poppy and happy," with "songs that you want to sing along with, songs that make you move." Admittedly, those ideals sound corny, but the band's attempt to be the modern day Beatles is admirable...
Barnes says that although the percentage of Christians in the undergraduate population has remained constant, subtle shifts within generic groupings have led to an increased number of religious organizations on campus...
...needs a doctor, she goes to see someone at the Arizona Physicians Clinic in downtown Phoenix. Chen, the director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS, pronounced access), reads her magazines in the waiting room alongside people who pay no insurance premiums, who can barely afford their generic prescription medications, who perhaps cannot even read the warning labels on a bottle of aspirin. When Sherry Broyles, 23, a single mother of two, needs to see a doctor, she waits alongside the likes of Chen and feels no less worthy of her doctor's attention just because...