Word: impartation
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...which uses an elaborate computer-software program to analyze word patterns in political discourse. In the first debate, according to project co-director Roderick Hart of the University of Texas at Austin, Dole "significantly eclipsed" Clinton in the use of such active terms as challenge, overcome and motivate, which impart a sense of vigorousness to voters. Dole, in his own words, was "reaching out," "protecting" and "defending," all of which, says Hart, painted a word picture of a "vigorous 73-year...
...greatness of the University lies in its ability to impart unto us an understanding, not of the use of theory for praxis, but of the service of praxis to the questioning spirit that is inseparable from the spiritual development of ourselves and of our society...
After all, consciousness--the existence of pleasure and pain, love and grief--is a fairly central source of life's meaning. For it to have been thrown into the fabric of the universe as a freebie would suggest to some people that the thrower wanted to impart significance...
...draw on one of Carter's illustrative cases, could, on the face of it, exhibit "integrity" by zipping through the three-step program before turning on the gas. In which case "integrity" wouldn't be much more than an accessory, like a walking stick or a pipe, designed to impart some of that ineffable quality we all seem to crave--gravitas...
...goes. Pollack and his team have cast good actors (John Wood, Nancy Marchand) in the supporting roles but have, at best, provided turns for them to do rather than parts for them to play. They have hired expensive locations, which are supposed to impart authenticity to the film but which begin to look like overconsidered stage sets. We remain outside the fourth wall looking in but are never drawn in; bemused perhaps, even agreeably complaisant, but never entirely amused...