Word: objectional
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...questions--for the word's definition and for the word to be used in a sentence--but they rise or fall on their own spelling skills.) Yet what's so winning about the show is how these dysfunctional teens grow on us through the evening and become poignant object lessons in the hazards and rewards of our driven, elimination-tournament culture...
...approximately 12:30 p.m., the victim was entering her residence near Mather House when an offender delivered repeated blows to her head with a metal object. The assailant fled after taking the victim’s pocketbook...
Thompson never held himself at arm’s length from his subjects; he bear-hugged them (even the druggies and rapists) and then wrote about it. His journalistic philosophy was rooted in the existential philosophy of Heidegger, who posited the collapse of the subject and object; Doc believed that the observer of a situation necessarily becomes an agent in that situation. He wrote himself into his stories, and gave birth to gonzo journalism. He’s still the only Rolling Stone writer cooler than the cats he wrote about...
...melancholy object to those living in this country to see the hundreds of thousands of hard working individuals who have been laid off from their jobs because of the state of the economy. These workers—friends, acquaintances, and countrymen—are now forced to beg on the streets with pitiful signs asking for handouts that this country cannot afford...
...result of being a Harvard student are, by virtue of Harvard’s investment, intimately intertwined with the targeted mass murder of other human beings. So throwing all of the arguments for Harvard’s role as a global leader out the window, I must still object to Harvard’s practices; I cannot, in good conscience, know that there is a strong chance that I am benefiting from, or complicit in, genocide, and not protest...