Word: imparting
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...real faults of course are the author's. He has taken the not-too-interesting dilemma of a not-too-enlightened boss and tried to impart a significance that just wasn't there. The result is sheer confusion at worst, (including some chronological impossibilities in Woody's life), and fleeting insight at best...
Coming after his thrilling documentary account of the Revolution's impact on 90 Miles from Home, Miller's novel is a thudding disappointment. It served only to impart the political message you can't hold a nation down without staying down with...
...Committee cannot consider Gen Ed without considering such questions as whether its function is to impart culture, or a respect for a rational approach to the world, or a knowledge of Western (or even Eastern) institutions, or a belief in service, or good citizenship, or even just the capacity to cultivate one's garden. And it must consider whether these questions mean anything, and how far they overlab, and how much Harvard needs in the future to be concerned with any of them...
...many in the Hughes camp, and at times to Hughes himself, this shift in emphasis is made reluctantly. It seems characteristic of people in the so-called peace movement that they see themselves as visionaries; they have a tragic insight into the future, which they seek to impart to a not-so-visionary populace...
...hand to impart a royal flavor was Princess Margaret, a tear glistening in her eye as the Union Jack was hauled down for the last time. By sending the Queen's sister to the ceremony, Britain made it warmly plain that no hard feelings linger from Jamaica's abrupt rejection last year of the London-fostered West Indies Federation. Independent Jamaica has been assured a place in the Commonwealth...