Word: resistance
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...drowns out all your other work is not such a lucky thing. In fact, I was thinking, when Hunter Thompson committed suicide, he was in that situation. He probably had the feeling of being obsolete and over it. And I know that feeling. So I fight it, I resist it, but it's tough to be typecast in a certain way when you're in your 20s and to have to live with that ever after...
...shorthand was so short that when we got to the set we were almost monosyllabic. In an ideal way, not in a noncommunicative way. We didn't have to say very much, and that's how it should be. You have to resist the temptation to talk stuff out a lot. And I try to encourage other actors to do it too, without any cruelty...
...circulation of the “Long Telegram” of 1946 and the 1947 publication of the “X Article” in Foreign Affairs Magazine. In both, Kennan argued his view of the Soviet Union as an aggressive and imperialist state that the U.S. must resist despite their recent alliance...
...twist on Bush's favorite message. He delights in defying expectations, and he can't resist tweaking the ears of all those who looked at his college transcript and voted him most likely to hawk siding. He also can't resist, because he's in the middle of prospecting for a bigger comeuppance: he'll show all those naysayer who claim his plan for Social Security is dead. " Someone said, 'It's a steep hill to climb, Mr. President,'" he told the audience at the University of Notre Dame a week ago. "Well, my attitude is, the steeper, the better...
...tempting at times to resist Foer's writing. There is a certain quirky cuteness to Oskar that can be cloying. When he trots out yet another amusing hobby or one of his many idiosyncratic verbal mannerisms--he pronounces acronyms like ESP phonetically; instead of saying something is great, he says it's "one hundred dollars"--you have to fight back the image of Jonathan Lipnicki, the kid from Jerry Maguire. But these doubts are pulverized by the book's devastating set pieces, which are of the kind only a genuine talent who knows exactly what he wants...