Word: impressively
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...down to how people think about the arts and the sciences as two diametrically opposed fields. Frankel is confident that the popularization of science through her arresting images is the tip of an iceberg. You can go to a cocktail party and use an arcane line of poetry and impress everyone, but it’s okay to say, “Oh, I was never much of a science student.” I think it is an embarrassment that our society does not include science in our conversation and...it is up to the future leaders...
Every fall for the past decade, Harvard seniors have devoured The Wall Street Journal every morning to stay abreast of economic trends and impress employers. This year, the news is less a source of information and more a source of worry...
...until all citizens begin to impress upon the candidates the dire urgency with which so many issues today need to be truthfully acknowledged and resolved, the candidates will continue to shy away from straight-talking, and go on seeking political success through equivocation and wordplay. If a fire is not lit beneath them, they will have no incentive to move to a higher political ground...
...nauseous, hallucinated pipe dream. A car chase filmed mostly from within a pursued car feels suffocating because of Gray’s decision to use only sounds that the character are hearing and no soundtrack. But his treatment of the political nature of his story fails to impress. When the mob attacks Joseph at his home, Bobby goes behind his father’s back and spontaneously volunteers for an undercover assignment, eventually becoming a cop himself. Bobby’s rise to arms implies that the ordinary citizen must take up arms against a common foe, but Gray never...
...spokesman for the Athletics Department, Kurt K. Svoboda, said that the department is attempting to “impress upon the student-athletes that we don’t want to take away, but rather put onto the table, alternative models that could better meet their needs and interests...