Word: passionately
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...matters of business and finance, Westerwelle is far from sharing France's passion for government meddling. Indeed, his calls for German tax cuts and fiscal restraint to bring down the budget deficit is diametrically opposed to Sarkozy's plans to spend his way out of the crisis with a new gigantic government-bond issue. Still, when it comes to Germany's relationship with France, Joannin of the Robert Schumann Foundation points out that the Chancellery rather than the Foreign Ministry usually calls the shots. (Read: "Guido Westerwelle: Angela Merkel's Unlikely Partner...
...time again, he provides us with more and more resistant strains of fiction. The humanities, resisting science, seem to want to hold it back so that the old truths hold. Powers, on the other hand, is positively straining to see what’s coming, writing with the passion of the discoverers in the sestet of Keats’ “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.” In a world that is, above all, confused by its own amazing progress, Powers is a stabilizing force, taking a step back, slowing down, to show...
...role as a poet as a fundamentally social one. This is partly through necessity—“You can’t make a living as a poet just by writing poems,” he says—but also, it seems, because he has a passion for engaging individuals as well as audiences. Referring to his teaching job, he acknowledges the limitations of education in the creative arts but is adamant about the possibilities. “If they’re not set up for poetry, you can’t change that...
...only in its painterly collection of noises, but also in the talents of Vernon as a singer and songwriter. It is almost shocking to hear how well the vocals and music in Volcano Choir fit together. This new, more colorful musical setting has the power to alter the passion inherent in Vernon’s vocals and vice versa. “Unmap” seems to prove that even estranged from the broken-heartedness of Bon Iver, Vernon’s music is still stirring...
...McCarthys this year, though, and though they’ve been great House masters, I’m going to miss the discussions over dinner of the latest modifications we’ve done on our cars. Added to the alienation of having nobody to talk to about my passion are the trials and tribulations of trying to have a car while at Harvard. On-street parking generally requires a resident parking permit, which would require me to register and insure my car in Massachusetts, at a possible cost of over a thousand dollars a year. Flout the rules...