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...civil servant uniform, the angel costume, etc.). All in all, for a movie with huge swaths of Brendan Fraser running through it, Bedazzled is surprisingly bearable. But if you expect to see anything that you haven't seen before, or anything that will make you laugh harder than a mild chuckle, Bedazzled will leave you feeling anything...
Examples of this phenomenon abound in our popular culture. A seemingly weaker David vanquished the intimidating Goliath. Town pansy George McFly summoned his inner strength to knock out reviled bully Biff. And most clearly, Clark Kent, the mild-mannered farmboy-turned-reporter, was Superman, hero to millions in Metropolis...
...child with a Grade 1 concussion does not lose consciousness but may experience a range of symptoms that include headache, mild dizziness, ringing in the ear, confusion and blurred vision. The symptoms typically resolve in less than 15 minutes, but the child should be removed from the contest, examined immediately and then re-examined at five-minute intervals. If the symptoms clear within a few minutes, the child can return to play...
Thorpe, a mild fellow for an assassin, said quietly, as if in explanation, "When you race in front of Australians, you don't let them down." What a kid, what a race. What a show this was in Sydney. The land Down Under--big, friendly, sweating, lovable Australia--on top of the world...
...first glance that might seem--well, Panglossian. But whatever the actual numbers, board members agreed that the economy's potential for sustained rapid growth with only mild inflation is "a whole lot higher than we thought seven years ago, five years ago," in the words of Robert Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute and a former director of the Congressional Budget Office...