Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Douglas' Terrible Honesty) could write that "no-one paints life as it is--thank Heaven--for we could not bear it," and receive few arguments from his readers. It was an era in which the word irony described a passing attitude, not a cultural imperative, and celebrity was something pleasant that happened to deserving strivers, not the glue that held everything together, everyone in its thrall...
...year later, though he dared include only one of the book's two murders. Soon after, the woman whom screenwriter Michael Tolkin (The Player) calls "our best expatriate since Henry James" left for Europe, where she was welcomed as an important novelist, not just a thriller writer. From this pleasant remove, she wrote of another ruthlessly imaginative expat, Tom Ripley...
...Relegating the needs of these women to "more meeting space and an occasional hug," as Oppenheim does, reveals the pervasive ways in which women's status continues to be demeaned and their experiences trivialized. Moreover, while the glorious call for equal opportunity and non-discrimination sounds pleasant to the ears, it ignores the methods in which inequality is initially constructed. "Equal opportunity" and "non-discrimination" hence become ways to mask and then perpetuate the unequal conditions that exist...
...Intramurals] are a pleasant retreat from the daily grind," Watson says. "And I'm not pressured into doing it, which is what makes it kind of therapeutic...
Johnson, a freshman center, has been the pleasant surprise as of late, leading the team in scoring against both Mount St. Mary's and URI. She has also been using her 6'4 frame well in the paint, nabbing 10 rebounds against Mount St. Mary...