Word: insightful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...investigation of the history of the Pentateuch--the first five books of the Bible, also known as the Torah--has yielded an insight Kugel considers key to appreciating how Scripture is viewed today...
...These people, since they were on-site, can provide valuable insight into solving the problem. In order to solve a problem you must first understand it. [Nowrojee and Ayres] are people who have something of value to share with us," Antwi said...
...These people, since they were on site, can provide valuable insight into solving the problem. In order to solve a problem you must first understand it. [Nowrojee and Ayres] are people who have something of value to share with us," Antwi said...
...worst (which, given Malcolm's excitement and insight as a journalist, isn't very bad), the book founders on Malcolm's signature theme: the biases of the journalist as a narrator who chooses sides in the fight over which stories are true. While her last book, The Silent Woman, used the controversy over the death and estate of the suicide poet Sylvia Plath to illuminate brilliantly these questions of authority, here the justice system becomes her battleground; lawyers dispute not over matters of law but something more beautiful and strange, the power of stories to overwhelm the truth...
While I Was Gone continues in the style of her earlier novels, The Good Mother and Inventing the Abbotts, using juicy plot and psychological insight to create an engaging read. Above all, readers will discover that it is a memorable work and a relevant commentary on a Baby Boomer's conflict between ideology and reality...