Word: reject
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...Heaney faced a different problem--cramming what he called the "giant ingots" of the Anglo-Saxon tongue into the "itty bitty tiny" parameters of moden English, parameters Heaney has broken through with consummate skill in much of his own poetry. His main means of combating this problem was to reject the use of the heraldic language so often used for Beowulf in translation, choosing instead to cast the poem in the pre-chivalric voice of relatives he remembers from childhood as "big-voiced scullions." Thus, in the end, Heaney comes back to the memories of his childhood that so fascinated...
...Cinematic Culture Police at Sundance and elsewhere turn up their noses and close their festivals to new directors. In response, the filmmakers hold the Reject FilmFest in Philadelphia and show new classics like Trout, the tale of a man and his talking fish...
...well have to face the electorate as early as next March, but the Israeli leader's reluctant signature at Wye could be a strategy to keep his job. "Netanyahu knew centrist voters would reject him if he didn't sign," says Beyer. "Polls show that an overwhelming majority of Israelis back this agreement. The right-wing opposition is very vocal, but it's a minority." That doesn't mean that Netanyahu has reversed his own ideological opposition to trading land for peace. Says Beyer, "Netanyahu can live with this deal because he knows...
...central tenet of Sachs' advice has been to reject policy formulated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a group of 182 countries whose purpose is to promote global financial stability through such activities as money lending and financial policy review...
...find the "any interpretation is valid" argument convincing. There are instances when, as Woody Allen memorably shows us, we simply are wrong. I recognize, of course, that Ellison didn't reject my argument in the way McLuhan rejected the professor's; while "no conscious reference to Garvey" may have been intended, Ellison did considerately leave the realm of his unconscious wide open to academic scrutiny. Unfortunately, I'm no psychoanalyst...