Word: looming
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...would be fired--she still doesn't want her employer's name printed here--or attacked or harassed. She and her partner, a closeted government worker, once had reason to suspect an anti-gay hate group was photographing their home, though they never found proof. Such fears can loom large here because gays have no places to gather and buck one another up. "It's hard for gay people to even meet gay people in the state of Wyoming," says de Vries. "The thing that happened when Matt was murdered was that for the first time, I think, the state...
...Arabia, Guinness's sly Prince Feisal watches from the sidelines, hoping to take advantage of Lawrence's heroism. In The Bridge on the River Kwai, his Colonel Nicholson becomes so obsessed with British pride he ends up a puppet of his Japanese captors. Even from those sidelines, Guinness could loom over a film. In Doctor Zhivago, his burnt-out, hollow face is unforgettably marked by the horrors of war. His Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations shines with the exuberance of youth, which ultimately defeats the aged bitterness of Miss Havisham. Omar Sharif was the star of Zhivago, John Mills...
When you're one of the few public faces of Hamas and your organization kills Israeli civilians, you've got to know you loom large in the enemy's gunsights. But when I asked Ismail Abu Shanab if that worried him, he merely shrugged. "If you expect me to worry about my life, that is terror," he said on a late-June day just a week after Israel had tried and failed to take out his colleague, Abdel Aziz Rantisi. "I do not pay any attention to this. It's not courage, but we have gotten used to this...
...systems to be learned and mastered loom on the horizon, the HIO staff is doing what it can not to let fatigue show...
...smart, but she can be rigid; Hagrid is loving, but to a fault when it comes to horribly scary beasts. Ron is loyal but insecure. Rowling loves her characters and invites readers to love them, not just despite their flaws but because of them. Since one's flaws loom large in adolescence, that is quite a healing potion...