Word: momentous
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...wooden public speaker, and it clearly took effort for him to make such an openly confessional statement. But he sounded genuine, genuinely sorry and chastened. In some ways, the shot of him and his mother after the speech was the most powerful one of all - he seemed in that moment, finally, vulnerable and all too human. And I think that if he hopes to win the public back, showing humility - rather than the imperious self-confidence that has long been part of his mystique - will be absolutely essential. (See the top 10 awkward press conferences...
Fiennes, who plays a small role in The Hurt Locker, says Bigelow is "incredibly wired with enthusiasm and excitement. It's physical, palpable, when she sees a shot or a moment that is working." Mark Boal, who wrote and co-produced The Hurt Locker, likens her to an athlete going onto the field: "She's pretty switched on when the cameras start going...
...used to feel like I was doing something at least marginally constructive during my Gmail breaks from Facebook. In fact, I still remember that renewed sense of control and eagerness I felt the moment I got my Gmail account 14 months ago—that new school supply high (what, this doesn’t happen...
...fantasy option, ripe with potential and waiting to spring to life. We had a friend who knew about a party—a big one, with frat-ish people doing keg stands all over the place, and thousands of girls just waiting to slay themselves at our feet the moment they first got a peek at our Harvard gear. After all, isn’t this exactly what happened in high school? But we would brush away the siren fingers that playfully traced out the H’s on our jackets, knowing that on Valentine?...
...just then, her vomiting friend emerged from the bathroom and demanded to be taken home. Also at that exact moment, C. walked in. He was absolutely fine, and we left the party. Nothing had happened...