Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these can be distracting--it's hard to believe that these lines are coming from her own experience--but they're part of her style, and it can work either way, as distracting or amazing, depending on the reader. However, this tendency occurs only in the main characters; the lesser ones are described quite realistically, tend to have the funniest lines and serve to counterbalance the main characters through their familiarity as recognizable, "everyday" people...
...brandishing gigantic skewers of different kinds of barbecued meat. They slice you as much you want and keep coming until you beg surrender. There is also a buffet spread of traditional Brazilian dishes and dessert which is included in the rodizio but can also be ordered separately at a lesser price. You can also order individual appetizers and entrees on the menu, but for hard core carnivores, there is no question that it'll be the rodizio...
...winter approaches and the hockey and basketball teams prepare to represent Harvard, there is a lesser-known winter sporting event that Harvard has traditionally and perpetually dominated--squash...
...miss his knowledge of Prussian history, his unerring sense of what the Duke of Wellington would do in any situation, his grandiose sense of walking in the boots of Winston Churchill and Ulysses S. Grant. Like Napoleon, he was tall enough to see a future invisible to lesser mortals. A global visionary, he wrote in a calendar unearthed by Slate magazine that on June 30, 1993, he was going to "articulate the vision of civilizing humanity" and, when that was done, "define, plan and begin to organize the movement...to help people...pursue happiness." A "transformational figure" doesn't just...
...Hamas claimed the leaflet was a fake. But this did not soothe the P.A. Says Jibril Rajoub, head of preventive security in the West Bank: "I have to take everything seriously." Another security chief says he does not think Hamas will target Arafat, but he does expect assassinations of lesser officials. Says a P.A. Cabinet member: "If you want to get rid of Arafat or any other P.A. official, all you need is a crazy guy like those who blow themselves up in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and unfortunately there are a lot of them around...