Word: modicums
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sellars might just as well have bounded on stage, done a headstand, cried, ‘look at me!’ before the curtain rose, and let the play proceed with a modicum of sensibility,” he wrote...
...others say Lewis has merely restored a modicum of order to a College where power had become too decentralized after years under less assertive deans...
...hypocrisy in any U.S. criticism of Israel’s operations responding to suicide bombings, when those criticisms come—as they often do—from people who do not also criticize the U.S. war in Afghanistan (and elsewhere) in response to Sept. 11. To maintain a modicum of consistency, anyone who takes issue with Israel’s military actions must also take issue with the U.S. war—for the two countries’ fights are two battles in the same...
...infrastructure of terror" is the fact that an overwhelming majority of ordinary Palestinians believe violence is the only way to end Israel's occupation. And as long as there is an endless supply of people willing to die, all they need is belt full of dynamite and a modicum of training. They don't even have to cross a border fence to get into Israel proper...
...exhibit provides an informative and thought-provoking look at the myriad functions of realism in contemporary art. Each work deserves extended viewing and often demands a modicum of patience in order to unravel its meaning and appreciate its implications as interpretations on the timeless conflict of representing the world we inhabit...