Word: imparting
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...that of overawed disciples. And what if you liked country songs but didn't like the discontinuous steel guitar work or the plodding, tchika-tchika drumming? Well, then you just weren't into Country and Western music. The whole effect of this categorization of musical genres was to impart a sort of guilty arteriosclerosis to more suburban artists, even if it did open up new areas to people and let the experts have something to be expert about. When somebody wails at you "CAN YOU DIG IT, I MEAN CAN YOU DIG THE BLUES?" it is difficult, even within your...
...institutionalized it. He kept alive the ideals of a movement-a strong executive authority, a sense of social order, a heightened feeling of national pride and independence-that might have died with its founder. Still, Pompidou was more of a caretaker than a creator, and he notably failed to impart to his countrymen-particularly the young-any stirring vision of France as a future society...
...this new Detroit suburb. Trees have not had time enough to grow as have the elms of the inner city. And the air, sulphurous and choked as always, has brought blight to the few infant trees, imported and sculptured in thick rows between the yards of the condominiums to impart exclusiveness. They look siliconed, as do the laws which are sod carpets purchased ready-made and transplanted by unrolling...
...never feel here that these workers are too immiserated. At some points the deftness of a spray painter, or the practiced touch of a door fitter, becomes surprisingly absorbing; at others, the jerky, repeated shifting of an eye as a girl watches her machine, or a stoic machinist impart the pain of a single muscle and the exhaustion of an unmoving face...
...teach a person how to make up, lose weight, stand, work before a camera, but you can't impart that special instinct a great model has," says Eileen Ford of her longtime protégée. Diana Vreeland, onetime editor of Vogue, spotted it early in the game. Watching Lauren at a shoot one day, Vreeland told the then second-string model: "You have presence." That appraisal landed Hutton on Vreeland's picture pages, and on the pages of many other magazines from then...