Word: hopefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compliment such a carefully conceived and intricate plot are several monotonous and lukewarm acting performances by Dean, Jason Lee, who plays an idiot billionaire, and Hope Davis, Dr. Mumford's patient turned love affair. The experience of watching the acting in Mumford can perhaps be compared to the first few days of the college experience. At the beginning, no one really stands out, and at the end, you can't remember anyone's name...
...think the highlight of Mumford may have been a heartwarming scene near the end of the movie in which Dr. Mumford emotionally declares his love for Hope Davis's character. Amidst her tears and anger at him, she explodes with a heartfelt, "I kinda love you too!" It was emotional. Really...
...slippers are just one piece of memorabilia in the Radcliffe archives that historians hope will not be forgotten as Radcliffe ends its college days...
...whom "Believing in nothing much, especially not in people, is a point of vague pride, and conviction can seem embarrassingly nave." In response to the culture of irony that mocks because it does not have the faith to believe or love, Purdy resolves to "speak earnestly of uncertain hopes." The fragility of hope in the ironic world, he asserts, is not a reason to give up on hoping: "I have written this bookso that I will not forget what I hope for now, and because others might conclude that they hope for the same things. That would be the beginning...
...delicate loves, richly deserves fulfillment of its modest request: "I cannot help believing that we need a way of thinking, and doing, that has in it more promise of goodness than the one we are now following. I want to speak a word for that belief, in the hope of an answer...