Word: passional
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...able to find a career that will allow me to combine elements from fashion with business,” she said. But no matter what she does, she can be assured that she’s got her people. “In the end, it is her passion, and she is fulfilling her dream,” said her mother Poornima Dara. “We are part of it, and we are 100 percent behind...
Smaller government is a venerable American philosophy - though one not always consistent with the public's passion for Medicare, farm subsidies, mortgage deductions, aircraft carriers and name-your-favorite-cut-of-pork. And calling forth the spirit of America's tea-dumping colonists in Boston has never been easier than it is now. One irony for Obama is that the Tea Party movement is using his own organizing techniques against him: Meetup.com announcements, Twitter tweets, viral videos, e-mail trees and all the other innovations falling under the politically potent umbrella known as social networking. Indeed, in the online...
Aciman’s effort in “Eight White Nights” to imitate Proust and constantly dwell within thoughts, metaphors, code-phrases, and imagined scenes of passion is misguided. The prose is feverish and obsessive; though his writing occasionally reaches lyrical heights, the banality of his subjects often overpowers. It particularly raises the question of whether the flowery, (pand)angsty voice of the narrator isn’t just Aciman’s projection of how he believes women want men to think, feel and obsess over them, since there doesn’t appear...
...focus of the benefit was not solely on grim realities. Though some pieces were not derived from the Haitian culture per se, the performers’ passion conveyed a profound sense of community with the people of Haiti. One of the most virtuosic displays by Ryu Goto ‘11 was a violin solo so ferocious that hairs from his bow broke off while he was playing...
...really feel that it’s not the money that’s going to change the world,” Chung said. “It’s the passion...