Word: mortals
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What the Faculty sees as arrogance, graduates see as forceful leadership. What the Faculty sees as the mortal sin of questioning aptitude between the sexes, graduates see a proper subject for discussion and debate...
...field, there are hundreds of cases that may be - and a wide range of penalties for misjudging one, from the social embarrassment of missing a bird (quail hunting has an aristocratic tone that fosters a lot of ribbing about poor marksmanship) to the mortal anguish of hitting a human being. The sport is dangerous, which heightens its thrill, but it's a civilized level of danger that's usually manageable through good equipment, experienced companions, and traditional codes of conduct. The emotions behind these codes are old and fixed: pride and shame. Like a mountain climbing expedition, a hunting trip...
...have the second without the first? What if to care the way you do care, means you will hurt. But not the heavy, stinky, evaluated, categorized, and predicted hurt that has crushed you. Rather the open, clear, knife-through-butter pain that comes from a mortal being who eventually will lose all and yet who cares...
...Obviously, Jill is not a ?guest? in the ordinary sense, but many Iraqis have told me that anybody who shares a roof with them - even a mortal enemy - is covered by the ancient desert code of hospitality. This is not a fanciful notion: I have myself been protected by the code in situations where my interlocutors might otherwise have wanted to do me harm...
...undersized Crimson frontcourt—junior center Brian Cusworth remains sidelined with a fractured hand—looked all the more mortal in the face of athletic, aggressive Mustang forwards who ruled the glass and the low block in the first half. SMU (6-4) tallied 18 points in the paint to just six for Harvard (8-5) in the opening frame of the Mustang’s 76-55 win on Wednesday. The Crimson’s own offensive sets were hurried and confined almost exclusively to the perimeter, with the few entry passes into the post swatted away...