Word: insights
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...cultural theorists Sunder cites in her thesis lend some insight. Nancy Chodorow asserts that girls form their gender identities by assuming maternal traits such as caring, nurturing and connectedness, while boys separate from their mothers and reject those same traits...
...work rests on the fact that much of Greenfeld's theory relies on an immutable human characteristic, leaving little room for explanation of how the end of the age of nationalism will come about. While Greenfeld does not claim nationalism is here to stay, she realizes she cannot provide insight into how such a change can come about...
...willing buyers were not the only ones stirred by the yearly arrival of the book. Founder Richard Warren Sears' best marketing insight was to aim the catalog at rural America, where, throughout much of the 19th century, roughly 70% of the people lived. Never mind being unable to window-shop like their city cousins; many of these potential customers were looking for a place to buy inexpensive windows...
Orion Ross directs the play with a scope and insight so engaging that they could only have arisen from his clear vision of his own adaptation. That adaptation is not ideal: it attempts to maintain the original text, but important phrases are "translated" into modern English. Since the important phrases are mainly sexual slang, this sometimes leads to clumsy contrast...
...trouble ordering books for a couple of years, but this is a real insight. I'd just as soon have another firm handle textbooks," Stilgoe said...