Word: resisted
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...polished, in fact. Cartwright's characters have more than one dimension, and his view of a culturally debased world is properly droll. But he can't resist tarting up his tale with a bit of porn and pretense. He gravely quotes Elie Wiesel on how Auschwitz negates any attempt to fictionalize it, and then includes fictional scenes of the Holocaust. And did Cartwright really have to call his journalist hero Curtiz, which sounds like Joseph Conrad's Kurtz? Can't anybody write about Africa without invoking Heart of Darkness...
Stone, who is co-chair of the $2.1 billion University Campaign, could not resist acting the part and pointed out that though the University's endowment is the largest in the nation, it ranks seventh per student...
...true. In the last six years, while writing The Look of Things, I've tried to be absolutely true about certain facts in my life. If a straight man is true about the facts in his life, his poems aren't considered "straight poems." Therefore I resist seeing my poems as identity-specific. I don't think of my poems as being for a gay audience, just because they deal with gay love, say, any more than I expect that Herbert or Donne thought of their poems as being for only religious readers. I don't even feel that...
...federal agents] come to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they are gonna be wearing bulletproof vests... Head shots, head shots...
...seems that Dr. Griffin could not resist the exhibition after all the hype, and agreed to show the mermaid at Concert Hall for one week only. By chance, after this week, the mermaid moved to the AmericanMuseum, where Barnum welcomed it with an 18-footflag of a beautiful mermaid. Barnum dismissed allthis as a "ploy" to attract people to his museum.His carefully-planned publicity campaign workedwell; museum receipts almost tripled, and themermaid was off to tour the country...