Word: matter-of-fact
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...that he wants to create on stage—Thompson, Tsurumi, the orchestra, and the tech crew interpret that vision into art.“I explained my thoughts and painted pictures with my words as to what I was looking for,” Krause says. His matter-of-fact attitude definitely speaks for the faith he has in a student production team that will carry through all his hopes. “I give them the outline, and they make it real.”“HAPPILY COUPLED ARE WE”In spite...
...after working with breast-feeding mothers, many of them HIV-positive, who were having problems feeding their children. "I would go home in the evening and look at my two healthy sons and count myself blessed," she says. "I just had to help these mothers." She takes a matter-of-fact approach toward HIV/AIDS that still surprises many Swazis. "I think what has worked for us is to have an attitude that it's not a special disease. We talk to a patient like you would if he or she had cancer or is diabetic," she says. "Once you introduce...
...been only in the last two decades that the living have been in the habit of marrying the dead," writes Link in The Great Divorce. One of current fiction's little-known treasures, she spins her stories in such charming, matter-of-fact tones that you almost don't realize you're entering a hybrid world that's part Muggle and part magic. A love-befuddled boy talks to a character from his favorite TV show on the phone. A late-night convenience store is visited by zombies who refuse to buy anything. An entire village pulls up stakes...
CONFESSED. DENNIS RADER, 60, serial killer whose self-coined nickname was BTK, for "bind, torture, kill"; to the first-degree murders of 10 people between 1974 and '91; in a courtroom in Wichita, Kans. In a chillingly matter-of-fact narrative, the former Boy Scout leader and church-council president recounted how he had comforted one of his victims by getting her a glass of water and provided a pillow for another, then killed them. Because Kansas had no death penalty at the time of the killings, Rader will probably be sentenced to life in prison...
...vest but says he is eager for the moment to come. While he waits, he spends much of his time rehearsing that last prayer. "First I will ask Allah to bless my mission with a high rate of casualties among the Americans," he says, speaking softly in a matter-of-fact monotone, as if dictating a shopping list. "Then I will ask him to purify my soul so I am fit to see him, and I will ask to see my mujahedin brothers who are already with him." He pauses to run the list through his mind again, then resumes...