Word: insightfulness
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...Nonetheless, at times the lyrics do achieve direct impact. On the title track, "The Pretender," there are flashes of insight as Browne's cynicism comes to the surface...
Hite's counsel stands to reason. Women have been socialized into grids of passivity, and they will not act as whole, autonomous individuals until they have shed those patterns. But the means of translating this awareness into effective action remains unresolved. Hite would have us believe that sheer insight will stimulate women to effect a complete change, to revitalize all their relationships and become more assertive. She tends to limit her commentary to recapitulations of the sufficiently eloquent statements her respondents offer, where she could use their explication of pervasive sexual problems as a springboard to solutions. Such annoying pretension...
...Last Tycoon is a reasonably scrupulous adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished tragedy about the strange refractions of Monroe Stahr's life. It makes for a flawed, divided movie, sometimes full of cool, funny insight, sometimes crippled by the flyaway myths of movietown...
...decision to return to complaints of confusion with the current system. The task force claims that students need requrements to insure that they are exposed to certain important intellectual skills that they would not take otherwise. But I would argue that most students who get into Harvard have the insight to recognize what courses will contribute to their own growth. Students that do not have this insight can be pointed in that direction through counseling. They need not be bludgeoned into taking these offerings...
...written a play presented by Black CAST in the Loeb last year was extremely special. As the protagonist Gabe Gabriel, Mr. Gordone's alter-ago, I felt as though I had already known him--but the reality of spending time with him afforded more insight into the character than I had ever known before...