Word: parallelling
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Introduced as “trailblazers” by former Ambassador Swanee Hunt, who is also director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), the two women followed parallel professional paths, rising from the bottom of the correctional agencies they now respectively...
...ONCE SAID THAT THE IDEA THAT DEMOCRACY COULD BE IMPOSED THROUGH FORCE WAS OUT OF A PARALLEL UNIVERSE. GIVEN YOUR EXPERIENCES AT HOME AND NOW IN THE MIDDLE EAST, DO YOU STILL FEEL THAT WAY? Democratic transformation is a domestic task. You can motivate some people [but] you cannot do it from outside...
While The Birth of a Nation is truly a groundbreaking movie for its cinematographic technique (especially in its revolutionary use of parallel editing and dramatic pacing), the film is better known for its overt glorification of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and its degrading portrayal of blacks. Its re-interpretive historical plot paints the fall of antebellum Southern culture as a disgraceful tragedy perpetuated by lazy blacks’ conniving and power-hungry “mulattos” and their misguided or equally opportunistic Northern sympathizers...
Another subtle but intriguing text-cum-visual art trick is the parallel placement of Klimt’s “Pear Tree” and a decorated, meter-long text box featuring another Hofmannsthal quote designed to emphasize the importance of images and words and how they interact with each other...
Despite her permanent status as one of the worst characters on the show, Marissa maintains tremendous agency within the volatile youth culture of Orange County, and her love interests often draw an uncanny parallel to the current quality of the show. Episodes when she’s with Ryan: Stellar. Episodes when she hangs out with Oliver: Terrible. Episodes when she dates Luke: Greatest of All Time...