Word: impartation
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...service of justice,” Motley wrote. “She encountered such ugliness in her life—from the slums of New Haven where she grew up to the Jim Crow South where she fought for freedom—and it was her mission to impart beauty and goodness to this world...
Words barely suffice to impart the subtlety and complexity that Kingsley puts into the role, from his affecting gaze to his deep nasal breathing. Instead of feeling like it’s just another actor performing a worn-out role, like Clark as Oliver, we believe Kingsley to be Fagin, straight from Dickens’ page. The majority of the time he’s filmed in close-up, his exaggeratedly ugly features filling the frame and initially startling the audience...
...like a slightly amnesiac grandmother who still thinks she’s living in 1939, but has lots of fun and interesting stories to tell you when she visits—a little peculiar and distinct from the rest of the world, but much wisdom and experience to impart nonetheless. In the past year, I have taken a course by one of the world’s leading Yiddish scholar, met 19-year-olds who have written books or started their own companies, traveled to Yale to play a match of club tennis, taken the oldest public transportation system...
...Nieman Foundation also expects Fellows to take on the role of teacher by participating in undergraduate discussions and by mentoring aspiring journalists on campus. Many, like Sarwar, already have advice to impart. She urged young journalists to embrace honest observations and analysis—even over a pretense of perfect objectivity...
...designed to lure grownups from their usual happy-hour haunts, featuring a slick restaurant and caf?-bar, concert hall (U.S. surfer turned songwriter Jack Johnson recently performed) and, of course, an aquarium?one of the largest in the Japanese capital. Unlike traditional aquariums, this one doesn't attempt to impart knowledge: there are no signboards listing the scientific names of the 20,000 fish, dolphins and penguins within, or diagrams of their anatomies. Instead, all the exhausted office worker needs to do is look at the pretty creatures swimming by. Even the adjacent roller coaster betrays a generation bias, drawing...