Word: informing
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Inside, the atmosphere was more like an expensive tea party than a wedding. For an hour, the female guests just stared at one another's jewelry. Shortly before dinner, my husband messaged to inform me that the men's side had a stand-up comic. So unfair. Even the bride looked dejected, arms folded tightly across her designer gown. After the sumptuous meal, intended to lighten the misery (it didn't), the guests eagerly filed out to look for their men. "I'm not sure what's worse," a friend mused on the way out, "having a fun mixed wedding...
...just got a healthy regard for what state governments actually do. I used to work for one. I actually understand the critical role which they perform." His private bullying of editors and media proprietors has already come back to haunt him. There's insecurity, too. Rudd is quick to inform people that he knows about life on the land, about bushfires and milking cows. "I grew up in the bush myself," Rudd is fond of reminding rural folk, even though he usually speaks like a cultured diplomat...
Although Oren’s book cannot offer any magical potions to solve America’s conflict in the Middle East, it makes the necessary attempt to counter the nation’s ignorance and unblinkingly inform the American people of their long and complex history with a region whose future is so intimately tied up with theirs. And that knowledge may be the beginnings of a solution, in and of itself...
...characterized history as a universal academic category, “to the extent that we can claim anything to be a universal category,” and doubted that “culture and belief” could be rendered intelligible without “the historical traditions that inform them...
...novel has a unique literary character. Its first purpose, like that of all fiction, is to entertain. Yet by having as its subject the spy, the man who goes where others do not, it implicitly assumes a secondary responsibility: to inform. A good spy novel allows the reader to see the world from the perspective of the spy, to peek from the dark shadows and assess it in recognition of its full complexity. Though the advertising for “Body of Lies,” the newest novel from Washington Post columnist David R. Ignatius...