Word: insight
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...series of remarkable scenes. Many are seemingly trivial-a hotel worker slowly crushing a fly underfoot, a propaganda truck blaring encouragement to construction workers-but when seen through the keen eye of a man who spent his workdays pondering the facial expressions of animated bears, they give rare insight into life beyond...
...This year, Qin said there was an additional purchase of 737 books from the law and medical schools. Fudan University made the purchases with the help of Harvard’s Yenching Library. Speaking in Mandarin, Qin described wanting to help Fudan establish good relations and gain insight into what he described as the best educational institution—Harvard. Ying Shao, an Applied Mathematics major at Fudan University, described four large sections in the main library with one of the four sections containing foreign books, and half of the foreign books from Harvard. Shao said instructors recommend that students...
...Ruggiero’s Olympic experiences, which forced her to take a two-year training hiatus in the middle of her Harvard playing days, give her a special kind of insight into the struggles awaiting this year's Crimson edition...
...Darnielle is anything but optimistic about love in his music. Perhaps his best-known insight on married life, the song “No Children,” features such self-destructive hysterics as “I hope the fences we’ve mended/fall down beneath their own weight, /and I hope we hang on past the last exit,/I hope it’s already too late...
...cell phone, and the nephew gets off a different bus in safety, we are shown the text message he received from the lawyer right after hanging up, telling him to ditch the phone and divulging her real whereabouts. Awesome. And then, if you look hard enough, comes the social insight. The viewer is comfortable rooting for, among others, a convicted car thief and a deposed don against corrupt law enforcement and an oil-greed government conspiracy. Dostoyevsky this ain’t, but it’s more thought-provoking than the average Fox drivel. So, if next week...