Word: notionalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Calixto said he did not buy the notion that HSA should not be held to the same standard as other apparel retailers simply because of their student group status...
...think it's accurate in that it's been a goal of mine to present Hamlet, to call up the notion of Kurt Cobain, that kind of modern mind. That contradiction between the desire to have some authentic connection and intimacy in your life, mixed with real apathy. All that is with Hamlet. There's part of him that wants to change everything, and this other part that says "aww, f**k it, none of this means anything anyway. What does it matter?" So, there's something in the spirit of both...
This liberty interest, implicating personal privacy as it does, is designed to protect the worth and dignity of each human, to create a zone into which the government may not enter without good and proper cause. It runs counter to our notion of decency and fair play that any person should be taken aside and searched without probable cause of some wrongdoing, but random drug testing is a search based upon presupposed guilt without any suspicion, much less probable cause...
...seemed a quixotic notion: "Hey, guys, let's make a movie in a genre that went out of fashion when The Sound of Music came in; that will cost $100 million, require arduous location shooting and elaborate computer effects; whose director hasn't made a film grossing even $50 million domestically in 20 years; whose script will be retooled by three writers turning in new pages during shooting; and whose 'star' is a gifted actor but also, by all accounts, a severe rectal itch." We can hear the moguls chorusing: "Gladiator? Thumbs down...
...Bloke is pragmatic rather than classy. One of the first things Pearce did on arriving in Los Angeles for his role in L.A. Confidential was study the bus routes. The notion of a limo was beyond him. If said Bloke does catch a taxi, he gets into the front seat with the driver. This is not practical, but the Australian Bloke fears anyone's thinking he has put on airs. This explains Crowe's odd behavior at the Oscars this year. He wasn't scowling because he was grumpy; he was just letting his mates back home know...