Word: objectional
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...presumptions about relationships and monogamy to the wind and embrace passion in any form, no matter how illicit. The narrative of the film is broken into four segments, each from the perspective of a different Owens sibling. Adam readjusts his personality to suit whichever character is the object of his pursuit and seduction. He pops up mysteriously wherever the Owens siblings are. Each Owens knows that Adam is hiding something, but none of them can quite figure out what it is. And it certainly does not deter any one of them from falling into his clutches. But the refreshing twist...
...would be hypocritical of me to object [to a 24-hour Harvard] on principle," Lewis says, "because that's the one I went...
...many thoughtful commentators do not believe the ad was racist. It obviously contains arguments to which some African-Americans may object, and voicing these arguments is not politically correct. But there is a difference between political incorrectness and racism. Horowitz's ad says nothing that promotes prejudice or entrenches stereotypes of racial inferiority. What, then, makes the ad racist? Was it immediately condemned simply because it was controversial...
...object of this buzz is a 47-year-old Democratic Senator who never held public office until 1999 and before that didn't even bother to vote half the time. Even so, Edwards made it all the way to first runner-up in Al Gore's search for a running mate last summer. His first speech on the Senate floor--explaining his vote against throwing Bill Clinton out of office--won raves, even from some Republicans. And his trip last weekend to Iowa, the state that holds the nation's first presidential contest, aroused far more talk than a freshman...
...from the 1970s to the present, as she fleetingly adopts different lifestyles. Sharon tries to find her niche in almost every spiritual institution imaginable, from the Greater Love Salvation Church to a marijuana farm in Hawaii, from the Consciousness Meditation Center to the Torah-Or Institute in Jerusalem. The object of Sharon's quest throughout all of her divergent spiritual paths is revelation. Sharon yearns for God to flash the answer to all of her questions right before her eyes, to hit her over the head and yell, "This is your bashert...