Word: graces
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hayden and his family handled this storm of ambiguity with relative grace. Hayden complained only about being stuck inside. "After a while, TV got boring, and then games got boring, and then there was nothing to do," he says. His parents were worried but also grateful that health officials were taking the matter seriously. "Nobody knew how bad anything was going to get," his father Patrick remembers, "but at least we were together...
...concluding that we've lost our will to face or fix anything. We'll just dance with the devils we know, thank you. But if you look past Washington, past Wall Street, turn down the volume and go outside and walk around, you'll find the parcels of grace, of ingenuity and enterprise - people riding change like a skateboard, speeding off a ramp, twisting, flipping, somehow landing with a rush of wind and wheels - and wonder that it somehow hasn't killed...
...were able to start well and parlay that into some good finishes, and our consistency was great this weekend with all of our top ten finishes.”The A-division pair of skipper and junior captain Alan Palmer and fellow third-year crew Grace Charles were victorious in the sixth race of the weekend, but the duo only managed an 11th-place effort overall in its division.A C-division of racing was also contested in the New York waters over the weekend. Filling the single-handed role requisite of sailing lasers in this division of racing, rookie Jason...
...something that also at the same time makes you so terrified? I think you have to talk to Dostoevsky or Carl Jung or someone more qualified for that answer. I don't know. Maybe because it's a challenge? Maybe it's some kind of low level search for grace? Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear. And the first time you make people laugh? Oh, that is fun. That's a rush...
...cheating spouse, a soul-searching roadtrip, a quest for love, a mid-life crisis. Even the setting evokes a certain familiarity: 1950s romanticism, a jazz soundtrack, pastel cardigans, and a preponderance of dinner parties. But surprisingly, the film transcends the clichés it employs by the grace of excellent acting and surprising directorial choices. Renée Zellweger makes a convincing heroine. At 40, she has proven she can play a wide range of roles, yet she always infuses her characters with personal idiosyncrasies. Much like Meryl Streep, Zellweger is never unrecognizable; she carries certain gestures and habits from...