Word: obvious
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Notwithstanding the obvious difficulties encountered in Reisz's attempt to capture Cline's life within the grandiose format of a Gandhi-esque epic, the film does manage to provide its desperate viewers with two fabulous performances as well as a slickly assembled score that will have hard-core Stones fans running to the Coop to snap up the sure-to-be-re-released copies of Cline's albums...
...asking your teacher to define "adultery" or "orgasm." This movie is slightly less mature in its earnestness over only marginally dirty words. Or perhaps move up to high school, when even elementary literary explications might have still sounded somewhat profound. Now imagine that elementary, lecturing tone describing what's obvious to you about Mr. Joyce, and you have James Joyce's Women...
There is already violence in South Africa, and its source is obvious...
Walters maintains that the U.N. cannot be considered a failure. "It still provides a court of world opinion, a forum where every nation can make its voice heard, no matter how small it is." That, he argues, is an obvious advantage for the U.N.'s members--"even when they are wrong...
...theory seems at first to be blatantly obvious. It holds that people tend to save when they are young to create a nest egg for their old age. Basic though it may be, that notion ranks among the most powerful and widely used concepts in modern economics. It was also the work for which M.I.T.'s Franco Modigliani, 67, the theory's principal author, was named the 1985 Nobel laureate in economic science. "With many people, the Nobel Prize is a question of if," said Paul Samuelson, an M.I.T. colleague and the 1970 economics laureate. "With Franco, it was only...