Word: lifeness
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Without question. Look, you get to vote with your fork three times a day. That's a lot more votes you have than in any other realm of life. Getting that vote right even once a day makes a difference...
...more I've studied this question, the more I realize it's not just the content of our diet; it's our eating life. Are we eating alone? Are we eating at tables? Are we snacking? All these things may turn out to matter a lot to our health. We stress over food--that can't be good for us either. One of the things I hope to do with this book is help people relax a little bit about food...
...steely resolve when he thinks of a way to prolong the lives of his ailing kids. And when he fights to bring a crucial medication to fruition, viewers' eyes may mist up a bit as well. Such is the emotive impact of the movie genre known as the true-life inspirational...
Sometimes an inspirational clicks with millions of Mildreds. The word gets out that some little movie will leave audiences limp with emotion and gratitude. A bunch of these true-life uplifters (The Sound of Music, A Man for All Seasons, Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Schindler's List, A Beautiful Mind) have won the Oscar for Best Picture, and many others (My Left Foot, Awakenings, Shine, Erin Brockovich, The Pianist, Seabiscuit) have been nominated. It may be that members of the Motion Picture Academy, on the whole far older than the average movie audience, recall when the inspirational was so popular...
...Blind Side, an inspirational that in two months has earned around $230 million at the domestic box office on a paltry $29 million budget. It's the story of NFL rookie Michael Oher and the wealthy white woman who eight years ago saved the young Michael from a forlorn life on the streets, adopted him and encouraged him to play football. A canny mix of violent sports (for the guys in the audience) and do-gooder heart (for the women), The Blind Side won Sandra Bullock a Golden Globe and may win her an Oscar nomination. What's certain...