Word: qualms
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Students have echoed the need for changes, citing high prices as their principal qualm with the establishment...
This is a reasonable qualm, but as Max might say, "Now stop!" Jonze, chronicler of uncertain adulthood in Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, has done a masterly job of bringing Sendak's work to the screen. He has broken one Hollywood doctrine: the notion that children's cinema is best devised for miniature couch potatoes who require a steady stream of laughs, action sequences and references to flatulence. Even the best American children's movies, like those made by Pixar, embed their heartfelt messages in what are fundamentally entertainments. The mysterious emotional turmoil and, let's face it, weirdness that...
...treat everybody like rockstars here [at Leavitt & Peirce.] And obviously the government feels the same way--they think that they have money like rockstars,” said MacDonald. “And they don’t.” He added that his biggest qualm with the change was its sheer magnitude. “[The government is] trying to discourage tobacco use,” he said. “That’s fair. In fact, I agree with that. We’re just here if you do choose to smoke. I just find...
...qualm is not with the HRC,” Zafran said in response, “but with who they chose to bring in to represent themselves on campus...
...genes into the genome of a mature cell through virus. These four genes produce factors that “reprogram” the mature cell’s genome to a stem-like state. No viable embryo, therefore, is either created or destroyed—which is the main qualm of conservative opponents of the research...