Word: retained
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...film, projecting such emotional intensity and fearless innocence in her role and capturing Viki’s restless confusion and defiant courage. With fire in her big, brown eyes, Viki has the air of a girl who could look unflinchingly at anything in the world, and yet still retain the soft naiveté that comes with adolescence...
Proponents of the research now under debate should retain more of the nuance they claim is theirs alone, and lose the arbitrariness for which they chastise their opponents. They also should be aware that although they think that the relevant “ethical issues” have been resolved, the “careful review” that has taken place so far is not sufficient. I, and others like me who oppose the creation of embryos for research purposes, yearn just as earnestly for the day when Alzheimer’s, cancer, and diabetes have all been relegated...
Doctors have long believed that children experience pain differently than adults. Unfortunately, most doctors thought kids felt pain less than grownups do, and didn't retain any memory of it. As late as the 1970s, infants underwent major surgery without anesthetics while older kids were often denied powerful pain-killers, on the theory that narcotics were too addictive and dangerous to be administered to children...
After such a role call, Netaji itself feels like a bit of a disappointment. The attempt to retain elements of Bollywood song-and-dance in what otherwise presents itself as a sober—and, at 3 hours and 42 minutes, certainly epic—history produces a somewhat bewildering montage, in the course of which it grows increasingly difficult to distinguish hagiography from farce...
After such a role call, Netaji itself feels like a bit of a disappointment. The attempt to retain elements of Bollywood song-and-dance in what otherwise presents itself as a sober—and, at 3 hours and 42 minutes, certainly epic—history produces a somewhat bewildering montage, in the course of which it grows increasingly difficult to distinguish hagiography from farce...