Word: parallelling
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...herring worth addressing at the outset is the failure to distinguish between homosexuality and pedophilia, which creates a false parallel at the core of the Times' argument. A double standard would be in effect had the media ignored a situation where two gay men killed a straight man for being straight. But sex with children is a crime regardless of the sexes involved, and is not synonymous with homosexuality. Brown and Carpenter were roommates, and the details of their relationship have not been revealed, but evidence taken from their house - handwritten fantasy scenarios involving children, as well as diagrams...
This belief is far more important than winning a World Series--although, continuing the Brooklyn-Boston parallel, it should be mentioned that the Dodgers eventually...
When Ingram gracefully carried the ball into the circle and lured Baril into no-man's-land before burning her, and when Luskin laid her stick parallel to the ground and made a game-saving stop, I thought the Crimson had things under control. It was getting good breaks and playing solid defense--both essential ingredients to giant-killing...
...thinks his life might be justified if he could just leave these hellish streets behind. The fact that Frank's vantage point is, like Travis Bickle's, a moving vehicle (in Frank's case, an ambulance), from which one's perspective is hasty and incomplete, is another significant parallel...
...FEATHERING Turning the oar such that the blade is parallel to the water when not in the water...