Word: impressively
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...Norton Anthology has also steered clear of academic one-upmanship, Greenblatt said. No other anthology has been able to compete commercially with the Norton, he said, in part because competitors have tended to focus on “a very highfalutin text in which professors were trying to impress other professors.” After collaborating with Abrams on the past two editions of the Norton, Greenblatt is now assuming the full editorship. Abrams said that Greenblatt, who is also the editor of “The Norton Shakespeare,” was the obvious choice as the next editor...
...conference schedule, having been dominated in blowout road losses to physical Boston College and Southern Methodist teams.The Crimson will not face nearly as imposing a presence in the Big Green, which sits with Princeton at the bottom of the league standings.The major challenge for Harvard will instead be to impress upon the team’s newcomers the heightened importance of each Ivy game, which leads to intense competition. “It’s hard for all the freshmen to understand—we all had conference tournaments in high school,” first-year forward Evan...
GRANTED. JOHN HINCKLEY JR., 50, psychiatric inmate who shot Ronald Reagan in 1981 in an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster; rights to stay overnight on visits with his parents in southeastern Virginia without supervision from hospital staff, a measure long opposed by the Reagan family; in Washington. Hinckley, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity and whose illness, doctors say, is in remission, had hitherto been permitted only monitored outings in the capital...
...continues to impress," Stehle said. "He kept us close in the second half and hit that big three that put us ahead for good, so you can't say enough about his performance...
...were uncertain whether she could hold her own beside such a formidable Broadway lineup. Thoms certainly lives up to Walker’s performance as Joanne, surpassing expectations in some places. Clearly well-trained for musical theater, her solo in “Seasons of Love” will impress even diehards. Dawson’s performance is slightly more debatable. She takes her character in a vastly different direction than the original actress Daphne Rubin-Vega, replacing Mimi’s usual raspy vocals with a much smoother, sweeter tone. Admittedly, the change is somewhat distracting, especially in Mimi?...