Word: rapport
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...know what the cow is feeling," Grandin, a realist, tells Sacks over a dinner of spare ribs. But while she has animal rapport, her neurological wiring bypasses most human emotions; the upheavals of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet leave her unmoved. The characters closest to her heart are Star Trek's android Data and his poignant predecessor, the supercognitive Mr. Spock...
...Colgan are charming, though their characters are the sort of life-size leprechauns Hollywood seems to think are roving Ireland. Characatures like these are balanced by the dark and mysterious performance of John Lynch, as Fiona's adult cousin, who is thought mentally deficient but who has an uncanny rapport with both the natural and supernatural worlds...
...outdo each other with perverse sexual propositions. Early on, when Juliet sticks her shoe in Alex's mouth, prompting him to kiss her ankle, it becomes obvious that they are more than just housemates. The mechanics of their friendship seem believable, but it's harder to accept their lusty rapport. Eccleston and Fox lack chemistry; their sexual interactions are stiff and unnatural...
...There's a certain rapport that's lost when youget to that size," said Kugel...
That best was impressive. Impeccably dressed as ever in dark blue, striped shirt and bold red-and-blue tie, Cochran sought to strike an immediate rapport with the jury. Spinning stories, addressing jurors like a loquacious, well-loved uncle, Cochran spoke confidently of his client's innocence, reeled out his favorite saying from Martin Luther King Jr.-- ``Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere''--and insisted that ``this case is about an obsession to win at any cost and by any means necessary...