Word: impressively
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...have to like Becky, and thanks to Reese Witherspoon's perky performance we do, not least because we have all been in her position, desperate to impress our betters. Moreover, director Mira Nair has created a pretty panorama?populated with solid actors like Bob Hoskins and Gabriel Byrne?of English life in the Georgian era for Becky to master. It is more exotic than Thackeray's, more laden with the booty of a burgeoning colonial empire, but Nair, Indian by birth, is entitled to her opinions about the exploitations on which England's wealth was based...
...wisdom is being able to change, Bush has learned that for him, wisdom lies in knowing when not to. In foreign policy, he views resolution as a weapon: enemies will yield only if they conclude that he will not. At home he sees his constancy as a way to impress cynical voters and guide distractible aides. By Bush's math, you can change your tactics, but you pay a price for changing your principles and can gain capital by toughing out a fight, even if you lose. He cites the lessons he drew from his quixotic crusade as Governor...
...ancient 25, shrewdly concedes the limitations of her experience by never oversinging her tidy little songs, Stone, a native of Devon, England, who signed a record deal after performing on a BBC talent show, heaved and trilled her way through Sessions as if she were still trying to impress the judges...
...government earlier this year set up extra checkpoints to get drunk drivers off the road, launched public-service ad campaigns urging people to stay sober and drive safely, and even rounded up young road racers and took them on a tour of morgues, autopsy rooms and prisons to impress upon them the dangers of reckless driving...
...Tuesday, not long before my stomach gives out, MGM's Tabu still has men dancing competitively on tabletops to impress women, like some '80s John Travolta movie someone forgot to make. "The clubs are now carrying Vegas," says Cy Waits, the bar's VIP manager. "The casinos want us to bring in quality. Young people are more reckless with their money." Along with clubs, arenas and music venues have sprouted up in the hotels, replacing the crooners with major pop and hip-hop acts. "For years people thought it was where acts go to retire," says Russell Jones, general manager...