Word: mires
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Omar al-Dewachi’s studies of displaced Iraqis took an uncomfortable real-life turn after the Harvard Ph.D. candidate became caught in a legal mire that is shutting him out of the United States...
...bear to think of her spending her life as their neighbors do, with so many omissions; a life blank as if unlived." But by now, the police are cracking down on freeloaders like Dan, and he gets his just deserts. Soon enough, Dan gets lost in the moral mire of this world. Some exploited construction workers enlist him to take on their employer, a shady real estate tycoon who blunts the offensive by offering Dan a free apartment. Dan has an affair with a fresh-from-the-countryside "masseuse" and resolves to right a dreadful wrong she has suffered...
...album opens with a relentless, heavily distorted bass line in “Jique,” which carries the song to an eerie, heavenly bridge before descending once again into the dance-inspiring mire of bass. “Never Met a German,” a Bloc Party-esque rock track, has Sciubba fantasizing about being a general, telling the listener, “I almost have an orgasm when the tanks are rolling/ Crashing through the borders...
...preachy pill, but Brooks plays him as a paradox--an intellectual buffeted by passion, a man of faith bedeviled by doubt. He is constantly confronted with moral dilemmas that he can only bluff his way through. But he's aptly named: the deeper March sinks into the mire, the more determined he is to keep marching homeward...
...instability of your administration may paralyze the progress of the curricular review and might mire us in mistrust and, again, paralysis,” said Sorensen, who served on the Committee on General Education, which has played a central role in the review...