Word: gracefulness
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...Grace B. Colloton ’07 wrote that she feared student interaction would not lead to a positive learning environment...
...self-destruction. This claustrophobic production can knock the air out of you. But when Hedda declares, "I can do what I want, and that is never going to change," there is a thrill in seeing an individual pitted so powerfully against the limitations of her age - and the feline grace of an actress at full stretch. That's worth standing...
...policy. His contradictory votes on Iraq--giving the President the authority to go to war, then voting against the $87 billion supplemental appropriation to pay for the occupation--have been at the heart of the Republican attacks against him this year. And Kerry's most notable asset--his grace and clear thinking under pressure--comes and goes with maddening irregularity. "He always scares you at the beginning of a race," says a Boston politician who has watched Kerry for decades. "He's unfocused, ineffective--and then, at the last minute, he gets his act together and wins." That was true...
...however, her adventures in the criminal underworld are just a pretext. What we come to care most about in writer-director Joshua Marston's film is how his heroine achieves the state promised by his title, Maria Full of Grace. Our emotional investment in her derives primarily from the astonishing performance of Moreno...
Immigrant fictions are always hymns to persistence, to scrambling for a hard, narrow, marginal place in the newfound land. They also depend for their effectiveness on a lack of overt sentiment. And that may be the best thing about Maria Full of Grace. Maria's circumstances may keep changing, but she accepts them and the consequences of her desperate responses to them; she makes no special pleas for herself; she just keeps moving ahead, never entirely sure where she is going. Vulnerable, always obliged to master new difficulties, she elicits our sympathy--even finally our love--without ever suing...