Word: purist
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...reason that I won't do it is not just because I don't have anything to say that would be any more interesting than what anyone else might say (I don't) or because I take the purist's stand and wish to withhold judgment until the facts are in. It is simply because I have seen enough of sadness in the news to tell me that--unless Chandra turns up alive--this is the story of something very bad happening to a young woman, and, for the moment, I do not know what more there...
Though a few unobtrusive additions to the book cropped up, only the most stringent purist would object; this production was very true to the exceptional material...
...That route, up through the Indian Ocean, closely followed Zheng He's voyages. A purist, the first preparation Cuthbert made for his trip was to rip out the wheelhouse. "You have to feel the elements," he says. Once, off Sri Lanka, more than 100 dolphins swam alongside the Precious Dragon, taking turns surfing the bow wave. When sailing in the junk, he says, "you feel that time's stopped. She moves very gracefully, silently...
...inside a woman's womb. So does Connie Mack, another committed right-to lifer. They both suggest that embryos outside a woman's uterus are not potential life and can be used for research. "Ha!," those on the left seem to be responding, "if you really were a philosophical purist about the right-to-life you wouldn't be making such a compromise, you craven hypocrite...
...metal acts as the Scorpions. "I was a metal kid at heart," he says. "But I couldn't do all the right poses and I couldn't wear leather pants." Who knows? Rock stardom could even be more fun for Weezer the second time around than in the alterna-purist mid-'90s. "At the time, it was definitely not okay to be successful. It wasn't cool," he says. "The whole rock-star thing was considered to be lame. Nowadays, it's totally come back in style." The world has indeed turned. Three hundred and sixty degrees...