Word: matter-of-fact
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Sergeant Russ Cambarare of the Lorain police department was shocked by the girls' matter-of-fact confessions. "We asked, 'Do you think it's right to take her life because she hollered at you?' Okiki calmly said, 'Yeah.' " The police doubt they will ever discover exactly how many students actually placed bets on the murder plot. But there is something else that troubles Cambarare even more: his first glimpse of the girls when they were brought into the police department. "They were giggling...
...conscience when it comes to matters of life." Since then, and despite the Republican Party's screaming pro-life affirmation of Bush's public stance, the keepers of the faith have winked and nodded. Hear them today, and their every statement is a nuanced embrace of reason, each a seemingly heartfelt echo of Bush at his Inaugural: "I yearn for a greater tolerance and easygoingness about each other's attitudes and way of life." Hear the President say he would support his granddaughter's hypothetical decision to terminate her pregnancy, and his matter-of-fact insistence that the decision...
...Gates of Ivory can be read profitably with no knowledge of the novels that lead up to it. But Drabble's trilogy, now complete, stands as an ungainly, brave and penetrating attempt to find a place for fiction in the matter-of-fact way we live...
...Catholic parishes have gradually reduced the traditional novena devotions to the Virgin. John Paul clearly thinks the reconsideration went too far, and his fellow venerators of Mary agree. In Eastern Europe, says Warsaw priest Roman Indrzejczyk, enthusiasm for Mary is no less than a "a reaction to the matter-of-fact religiousness of the West...
...rape victim struggled hard to maintain her composure. But frequently she failed. Rather plain-featured, simply but expensively dressed, she looked only twice at the man she says raped her. Asked to identify him, she exhaled and paused before nodding briefly at William Kennedy Smith. In an almost matter-of-fact tone, she described meeting him at the trendy Au Bar disco last Easter weekend. Smith, she said, seemed such "a very nice man," whom she trusted because as a medical-school student, he could talk about the problems ^ she had experienced with her prematurely born daughter...