Word: haze
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...academic purpose. Naively, I hoped to set down a beacon of rationality as a guiding light in a dark forest of liberal orthodoxy. Unfortunately, I have discovered few liberal excesses to denounce. I am no beacon, and we are covered not in darkness, but in a thick gray haze of purposelessness...
...They guys haze him a little bit in the pool,” Farrar said. “We had to have a ‘Rick Rule’ during scrimmages that it was not appropriate for all five perimeter players to come in on him. The guys are severely tested; if he gets his hands on the ball cleanly, something will happen...
...conditions of operation, which impede external critique, make vigorous internal critique imperative. Especially now that University President Lawrence H. Summers has had a role in appointing the majority of the current members of the Corporation, each new member must be selected with an eye to shaking off the sluggish haze of groupthink that can so easily envelop and consume groups of people...
...towers of Gaza City emerge from the blue Mediterranean haze as our chopper glides down from Tel Aviv. The red and white striped communications tower of an Israeli military post marks the northeast corner of the fence surrounding the Gaza Strip. Beyond, where 1.5 million Palestinians live in the dull concrete of densely-packed apartment blocks. The gray is punctuated with blazing strips of sand - these are the open spaces farmed by Israeli settlers who raise crops in greenhouses to counter the barrenness of the dunes...
...talk, looking back, about the perfect season, you can finally get past the bewildering haze of statistics and honors to see that those things don’t quite reveal what makes Ryan Fitzpatrick a great player, or a special player, or a valuable player. They help to explain it, sure. But you can get a better sense of it when you stop talking and just listen to the man himself...