Word: latent
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...tall order for any play, particularly one that clocks in at about an hour and a half. So it feels odd to say that “Doubt” should be tighter, quicker, faster-paced–anything to wake up the play’s latent vitality...
...sucked for Sienna Miller. Jude Law cheated on her and then she decided that she was going to take him back, and justified it by saying that all humans are fucking animals. Which I thought was a pretty interesting anthropological observation, but betrayed a nihilism in her world view latent up to this point. Then she got that awful short haircut when she was trying to play Edie Sedgwick in a movie that Mary Kate Olsen is also in. Then she called Pittsburgh the “shit,” and many truculent Steelers fans made threats...
...added one steal to finish the night with only 14 minutes of action. Defensively, the sophomore set a formidable presence in the post, but Moretzsohn was not as active offensively. However, that all changed in 24 hours. Somewhere on the road between New York City and Ithaca, the latent potential that her teammates always knew existed finally emerged.Using her height to grab rebounds, provide key defensive stops, and reject many a shot had always come easy for Moretzsohn. It was not until her double-double on Saturday night against Cornell in which the offensive factor finally kicked into gear...
...gall not to admit him, allegedly because of the admission committee’s prejudice against Asian Americans. The article, co-written with Asian students on the Daily Princetonian’s staff, went on to complain—in broken English—Princeton’s latent antipathy towards admitting Asian Americans. “I the super smart Asian,” it says. “Princeton the super dumb college, not accept me. I get angry and file a federal civil rights complaint against Princeton for rejecting my application for admission...
...rider, or a horse farm manager, Cloos took the advice of a summer employer and started thinking about horseshoeing.“My parents were sort of resistant to the horse interest,” says Cloos.Although she started riding when she was seven, her interest in horses remained latent throughout boarding school and most of college. One day during her undergraduate years, the opportunity to ride again came when she confessed her love for horses—and not classical mechanics—to her undergraduate adviser, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi...