Word: notionalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Perhaps it took some extra time for audiences to come to grips with the notion that people in the underground are often morally ambiguous. For example, there's an almost casual anti-Semitism among many of your underground fighters...
...Betty's notion of acting while singing was to break each lyric into its components, mine each phrase for the mood or situation, then act that out to the hilt, however short the phrase. Given the Johnny Mercer-Victor Schertzinger ballad "Not Mine" in her debut feature The Fleet's In, she dreamily croons the first line ("It's somebody else's moon above"), then immediately pulls a little girl's mope face for the words "Not mine." She took the same approach to acting, with multiple personalities flashing across her face with lightning speed and violence...
...third-party group Unity08 has expressed interest in him, and he's not ruling it out. Bush boasts of his consistency, but look what it has gotten him: a Democratic Congress, a 33% approval rating and a scandal-plagued end to his presidency. Hagel's hopes hinge on the notion that voters may value idiosyncrasy over ideology...
...wonder black people were so appalled when Frank Hargrove, a Virginia legislator who is white, said last month "black citizens should get over" slavery. That notion invalidates the black reality. It essentially says: The discrimination you feel and I benefit from is an illusion - or at least has no historical context...
...Woolmer, who died only hours after his team lost to rank outsiders Ireland in a match that effectively eliminated Pakistan from the competition, had been working on a book that some Pakistani and Indian commentators have speculated would expose match-fixing within the team - a notion that Woolmer's co-author says is nonsense...