Word: plight
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...morning with bleary eyes. Her biweekly column was unique on a editorial page which focused on issues such as the latest economic agreement. She talked instead about what seemed to be more human concerns: her three year old who was afraid of the dark, dysfunctional Barbie dolls, the plight of a homeless individual...
...tenure at Harvard"--she can say anything she pleases without fear of retribution. Yet her writing is strangely reminiscent of the nineteenth century branch of feminism that preached a woman's role to be that of a social reformer, urging readers to wake up to such issues as the plight of children in the inner cities...
...poor treatment of the fans by both sides doesn't bother you, then the plight of the workers and charities should...
...farther from its course. His vague gestures and unfinished thoughts, sweetly endearing in rehearsals, mark him as a hopeless ad libber, degenerating from his tag "you know" to a helpless "who knows?" by the third act when the play no longer resembles its script. Garry's realization of his plight is the image of very actor's nightmare as, sweat pouring down his face, he stares out at the beady eyes of the house in horror, his mouth gaping for the lines that simply won't come...
...important sense, of course, the photographs did just that. They alerted the world to the plight of the Rwandans, just as the snapshots of Jupiter gave earthlings an invaluable cosmic slide show. The danger of images lies not in the information they carry but rather in our propensity to believe -- once we have seen them -- that we have seen the whole picture. The much heralded visual age is nearly upon us, and we can take justifiable pride in our new abilities to look at each other over long distances and to take close- ups of deep space. We should also...