Word: obvious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...necessary to those intentions because despite his obvious sympathy for the revolutionaries, it is not his desire to romanticize them. Most of their activities are, frankly, grubby. And their responses to Black and Tan violence are no less bloody than the atrocities visited on them. There's nearly always a tendency in movies about revolutions to glamorize and ennoble the oppressed but that's not the purport of this film. We get to know the revolutionaries - there's a sweetly tentative romance between Damien and a woman named Sinead (Orla Fitzgerald) that is the more touching because it so gently...
...Kong does not have some God-given right to be a success; others would like some of its wealth. Though the World Economic Forum last year rated the territory as the world's 11th most competitive economy, Hong Kong is in a race for global business not just with obvious local rivals such as Tokyo and Singapore, but with cities from Shanghai to Dubai who are seeking to benefit from globalization...
...status quo-ballot by an electoral college of 800 members-is the best interim answer. It may not fully comply with democratic principles, but there are many other examples of pragmatism in our political design. Participation by foreign nationals is an obvious one. Permanent residents (those residing in Hong Kong for seven years or more), regardless of their nationality, can elect members of the Election Committee and the Legislative Council, and are not required to pledge allegiance to either Hong Kong or China. The Basic Law also allows non-Chinese permanent residents to be members of both the Legislative Council...
...worker,” he said. Barilaro’s success encouraged Saldarriaga to begin a similar publishing house, Sarita Cartonera, in Lima in February 2004. The effort followed Barilaro’s formula but added an emphasis on educational methodology. According to Saldarriaga, this was an obvious step. “When we started publishing, we came to the question that we need readers. What is the point of publishing these books if you have no readers?” she said through a translator. From this question came their educational project “Libros, un modelo para...
...obvious problem with the satire behind “The ½ Hour News Hour” is that the show isn’t funny, at least not in any honest way. Each joke projects the oily feeling that the writers first came up with their position planks and then attached whatever cheap joke they could find to get the token laugh...