Word: rare
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While the smaller weekly meetings were said to be enjoyable challenges, active SCA dians confess they were mere stepping stones compared to the one grant-like monthly SCA event. Lasting up to 12 hours, these bashes may include a jousting match, a revel or feast, or the rare Coronation of a King and Queen...
Speaking with the calm assurance Beren says his problems originated on the tennis court. As a junior player he rarely lost on the Missouri Valley circuit. Yet still got little pleasure from his success. I would always get so nervous. I brought the whole thing about winning I would think. "I'm winning. So I must be enjoying myself, even though I really wasn't." He says he often cried on the rare occasions when he did lose...
...rare glimpse into a solitary, single-minded nation...
...rare verbal statements. Beate and Lucio do not converse; nor do they touch. They communicate by literary reference. Lucio confesses his love by passing her a copy of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, drawing her attention to a poem that ends on an oddly depressing note: "But every pleasure wants eternity-wants deep, deep eternity." She reciprocates by returning the book with the poem underlined in red. Lucio interprets these underlinings as a sign of her willingness to lie under him in ecstatic consummation of their love...
...refutation of the philosophy of nonviolence to point out that its successes are terribly rare and difficult. Nonviolence as a moral theory is simply not subject to such empirical disproof. The principled rejection of violence is endowed with a nobility that is, if anything, enhanced by its impracticality, by the fact that its practitioners knowingly expose themselves to danger and worse. It is because of this noble impracticality that in America pacifism (of the conscientious objector, for example) evokes at once respect and curiosity...