Word: refraining
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...past, Harvard has struggled to refrain from assuming the Knights’ physical brand of hockey and spending equal time with them in the box. Saturday night’s struggle, though, was about Harvard failing to convert on the number of opportunities with which it was presented...
Even though I usually refrain from observing four-twenty, it gets a whole lot lamer when it’s dark out. The Boston sun will bid us a dismally premature farewell—setting prior to 4:20 p.m.—from this week through late December, leaving us indebted to Thomas Edison for practically everything we do. The perpetual darkness of early winter may be a drag, but probably more irritating and monotonous is the industrial scale on which we complain about its inconvenience. Restoring year-round Daylight Saving Time could silence that unpalatable grumbling...
...know those guys outside sports arenas who hawk scorecards? You know, the ones whose refrain is “Can’t tell the players without a program...
...childhood in Algeria, Belgium and Saudi Arabia. As a musician, she's had to fight for respect, since she was not born into the caste of griots, Mali's musician-bards. It's been hard "to make people accept you for who you are," she says. The outsider's refrain is a cry for acceptance, and she sings one now for developing nations like Mali, whose needs are often overlooked. "In Africa, we are not powerful," she says. "This music is just to say: we are not O.K. But - there is always a message of hope." Her most spirited missive...
...Barefoot Blues,” anchored by a dirty jungle bassline—and funktastic synths weave around Fiedler’s siren vocals, only to dash unwary listeners on drum & bass breaks. Unlike many chill artists, however, Laika actually have lyrics worth listening to, such as the whispery refrain of the gorgeous “Oh”: “Words designed to pacify / it helps the sun is shining...