Word: ideality
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...what we please. We never follow fads; we create them. Mika: My sister has the uncanny ability to spot clothing or accessories abroad that within the year become the rage in Japan. Kyoko: It's true. Japanese women are followers. They simply try to suit the Japanese man's ideal. Take our bodies. Most men here are entirely intimidated by us. Japanese men are skinny and short, so that's how they want their women. We're not, and we refuse to try to become what we're not. Japanese women must learn to have a sense of wanting...
Gross went on to address some of the issues that accompany her job as an interviewer and as an interviewer on a public radio station. She emphasized the importance of radio as the most ideal medium for the interview, because it is unencumbered by the time limits of television and the importance of the image. Gross observed, “I don’t have to worry about how I look, or how to smile. During the interview, I just turn into a big ear. I’m very well-suited to the invisibility of radio...
...hand, significant disagreements are always going to exist. The question of how to respect and understand someone with whom you honestly disagree is very difficult. However, we believe and have seen evidence that it is possible and good to create real and valuable relationships despite these differences. Fundamentally, that ideal is based in our core belief that we all have infinite worth, value and dignity because we were all made by God who loves us incredibly. We hope that through open and honest relationships, we will honor this ideal...
Aesop Rock makes backpackers across the continent salivate. He is the embodiment of “lyricism,” spitting out line after abstract line in ideal multi-syllabic, rapid-fire fashion. He makes his own beats, off-kilter pastiches of lo-fi drums and weird bass noises. Devoid of charisma, he is a bastion of grim determination and pure skills. And best of all, he is Underground—known only to the backpacking elite, his primary means of publicity for several years was the internet. Now on New York City’s Def Jux label?...
...biggest casualty of last month’s attacks was people’s security in their ability to control their own lives and create a world after their ideal. Last month we all watched as church attendance nation-wide tripled and several thousand people showed up at one of the most secular universities in America to pray. As my father said, “There are no atheists in foxholes, and all of America’s a foxhole...