Word: ideality
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...portray Laura simply as a one-dimensional vixen and the Captain as a hapless victim would sink the play into a facile exercise of melodrama. Instead, the two actors find an ideal balance between the multiple facets of their characters and their interactions. Gowl’s Laura is manipulative, but she also shows the vulnerability and intelligence spurring her motives...
...specific names were mentioned at the meeting. Summers and the committee focused instead on the ideal characteristics the next dean should possess, from intellectual qualities to management skills, committee members said...
Summers also said at yesterday’s meeting that he plans to hold private discussions with members of the committee to discuss actual candidates, as a 13-member committee is not an ideal environment for debating the merits of individuals...
...Playing on the road may not be ideal for some teams, but it focuses our team and keeps us on track for what we are really doing down there,” junior defenseman and captain Jamie Hagerman said...
...same heads of government, meeting last December at the Palace of Laeken in Brussels, plumped for Giscard to head the Convention. Though he is certainly an ideal avatar of French grandeur, with his aristocratic bearing and keen intelligence, many have questioned Giscard's credentials for pointing the E.U. toward a future of greater democratic legitimacy. Before Thursday's session kicked off, many Convention members were up in arms over Giscard's proposed rules of procedure, which give the 12-person Presidium strong powers for setting the debate. "Giscard knows he's not a popular man in this house," says Andrew...