Word: impartation
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...twit, is supposed to be slightly silly, but Bonham Carter does not quite succeed in counterfeiting nitwittedness. She needs to study acting, she knows, and to find time for a university education. She needs to stop being 19. "At the moment I don't have much to impart to the world, and I wish this attention would come at a time when I did," she says. Reminded that when she has years, she will wish for youth, this winning young woman agrees, and adds gravely, "It is so badly designed, isn't it, this whole process...
...Pope Pius XII extended the privilege to radio listeners, and later to TV audiences. Bishops around the world have long been permitted to impart the blessing to their local flocks on behalf of the Pope. Last week the Vatican announced that Catholics are now eligible to receive this indulgence from their bishop's blessing via radio or TV if they are unable to hear it in person...
Ostensibly, Daniel Montross haunts the psyche of Day solely to impart some terrible truth to Diana. It is here that Return falters, for we are never told why this truth must be so urgently revealed, why it could not rest quietly with the dead. Because the necessity Montross's reincarnation is thus called into question, the film's entire premise crumbles. The subject of reincarnation begins to seem more like fanciful ornamentation than a vital compelling force in the plot...
...alternative is to submit the Guide to official review by a committee of professors and administrators each year. Such a process would merely impart a different bias and cripple the book's credibility once and for all. As Ozment commented, "The first 10 people to exit the T at Harvard Square would be more objective than any committee of the Faculty...
...does feel free to impart a hot market tip to the public: "In terms of long-run growth, I am high on factory-automation stocks...