Word: meek
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Maybe it's been so long that we've forgotten what "left" is and how to tell it from right. At the simplest, most ecumenical level, to be on the left means to take the side of the underdog, whoever that may be: the meek, the poor and, generally speaking, the "least among us," as a well-known representative of the left position put it a couple of millenniums ago. Thus it is not leftish to have a $200 haircut while planes full of $20 haircut people circle overhead; nor would a leftist contemplate selling the President's favors...
...LaFitte offered particularly strong performances, but Soule seemed to fade in and out of the solo quartet and Gianguilo made some rather audible mistakes, failing in four different spots to sustain the end of his solo the full length of the note. The final movement suffered from the meek entry of the strings and an overquick temp. But the allegro assai redeemed the piece, with oboe, flute, and violin soloists maintaining a whispering rapport...
Imagine the playground possibilities for ostracism. No longer will dodge ball be the sole determinant of power. Now sugar will separate the strong from the meek: woe to the first-grader who can't stomach a tear Jerker...
...reality, Woody Allen is not the meek, uncertain man he usually appears as in his movies. After a small role in the 1967 hit What's Up, Pussycat?, his first screenplay, he vowed never to allow anyone else to direct his work. Since then, he has directed 21 of his own screenplays...
...stage is already complex enough, with peripherals such as the hilarious public Exploder Tarara (Leo Clark) and the meek Vice-Chamberlain (Mark Hagar) adding to the confusion, without Scaphio falling in love with the Princess Zara. In one of the play's most humorous moments, Scaphio talks insensibly about his love for Zara, whom he calls "intoxicating, a veritable goddess," prompting Phantis, who has loved the princess all along, to reply with characteristic understatement, "Yes, the girl is perfectly okay...