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...sure you're right, but you should know that you do kind of reek...
...obviously a big issue," Grogan add. "We reek with symbolism...
...times out of 10, African American). Today's player is a man who sees his profession much as a stockbroker might see his own. He likes the competition, the camaraderie and the money. He's there because it's an exciting job that pays extremely well. He doesn't reek with gratitude for being allowed into the league. The player enjoys being part of a team and part of the community--Sprewell last week donated $100,000 for athletic gear for local kids--but does not suffer a coach's presumptions, familiarities or tyrannical moods...
Even Stoppard's most accessible works (The Real Thing, the movie Shakespeare in Love) fairly reek with erudition. Invention, having its U.S. East Coast premiere at Philadelphia's Wilma Theater, is no exception. Eloquent and witty, it's also intellectually challenging. On one level, the play is about A. E. Housman, the Victorian poet (A Shropshire Lad) and scholar, at age 77 dreaming he has returned to the Oxford of his youth. It's also about the love of language and the language of love (i.e., the earliest Latin love poetry). There are some snooze-inducing stretches dealing with English...
While this appears to be a policy of tolerance, it is nothing but a crude attempt to exploit religion and transmute churches into another arm of the state propaganda apparatus. These state churches reek of the government's attempts to mold them into tools to maintain support for their regime. Their names and ideologies drip with the official mix of nationalism and support for the Communist party's authority. The official Catholic church is the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association; the principal theological seminary's mission is to train clergy who are patriotic and support the Communist Party. It is absurd...