Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Without a doubt, a team like Penn does possess an advantage in manpower. The Quaker guards--Jerome Allen, Barry Pierce, and Matt Maloney--represent "one of the best Division I backcourts in the East," according to Sullivan...
With Captain Tyler Rullman limited by a 102-degree fever, the Crimson simply did not possess the firepower to keep up with the Lions, a hungry team on the rise...
While Peck suggests that stories which mourn death can also sustain life, what makes this novel truly heartbreaking is his understanding of the limits of stories--the stubborn persistence of real life. Peck possess the double ability to spin beautiful fictions and then expose their falsity. As John watches the emaciated Martin die. Peck offers a delicate, gruesome image: "The way his shoulders shook and the way his bones poked at his wet skin made me think of old rice-paper lanterns shaking in the wind, starting to melt in the rain...
...figure . . . highly individual, combining expected elements of the European mainstream with personal tastes that can appear willful or mandatory." He was also a witty and truthful art critic, whose essays and journalism, collected in 1947 by Osbert Sitwell under the title A Free House!, are never dull and often possess a Shavian energy. Courageous to the point of eccentricity, Sickert always followed his own nose...
...hearts and souls sense the oncoming frost and are forced into hibernation, later uncannily showing signs of rebirth only as Spring Reading Period rolls around. Harvard's amoral addiction to excellence sends the message that any brilliance, however lopsided or maladjusted, ultimately matters more than the excellence some possess through their honest, if sometimes messy, search for personal meaning and lasting friendship...