Word: rife
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...first year it was held the British faced a slight problem. Several of that year's prominent Oscar nominees, such as Jim Sheridan, Neil Jordan and Liam Neeson, were actually Irish. To celebrate both the British and Irish would have sounded inelegant and was rife with political danger. The diplomatic skills of the British consul-general in L.A. saved the day. He suggested referring to the nominees of "the British Isles" (a quaint geographic nomenclature that includes Ireland by way of topography without mentioning the vexed issue of sovereignty...
...lives. They have to force and fight, as they are now, with all the difficulties they are currently facing. To achieve anything, people must work this hard. For me, I've put in tremendous effort these 21 years to be able to do these concerts. My life has been rife with difficulties, though I know comparatively, many may have been far worse off than...
...prize is one of the few dinosaurs of the rhetorical tradition that remains at Harvard. In a university rife with students preparing for careers that require public speaking, rhetoric's decline seems unwarranted to some...
...blinders don't come with the business cards at TIME.com, so it's only fair to remind ourselves that college sports are rife with greed and hypocrisy, and that gambling is a big attraction to the tourney. But that's not why most people will be glued to the tube, apart from an innocuous $5 office pool. They'll watch for the right reasons...
More likely they were thinking, "What the heck was Monet smoking? Those look nothing like real water lilies!" Around the same time, James Joyce is struggling to get Ulysses in print as publishers declare that in addition to being rife with vulgar language, the novel is big and complicated and filled with absurdist characters. Across the Atlantic, Moby Dick has bombed as critics still have not settled the debate on whether the novel is a work of fiction or actually whaling industry propaganda. Van Gogh has already committed suicide, no doubt driven to such despair because he could only manage...