Word: rigor
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...yawn. Of Martin's Scorsese's "Last Temptation," he said, "You've got Harvey Keitel as Judas saying" - and here Gibson shifted into a Brooklyn accent - "Hey, you ovah dere." Maybe his was just dissing his strongest competition. He knew that these films were closest to his, in setting, rigor, power and bloodshed...
...professor said that “economists tend to give higher weight to academic rigor,” while other social scientists are more focused on shaping public policy...
...moments as examples of brave truth telling in a town that doesn't like it. White House aides have a different view: It wasn't just that O'Neill was impolitic, they say; his statements had real consequences--roiling currency markets and Wall Street. What O'Neill would call rigor, Bush officials say, was an excessive fussiness that led to policy gridlock and sniping within the economic team...
...problems. Kerry has a much deeper and more nuanced sense of the issues; he delivered an excellent foreign-policy speech at the Council on Foreign Relations last week (Clark bombed at the same podium a few weeks earlier). But the Massachusetts Senator has been cautious to the point of rigor mortis, and he has never overcome his tactical vote in favor of the Iraq-war resolution. Kerry's stump style is sharper than it was, but the revival may have come too late. In fact, the Senator's sell-by date seems to have passed in New Hampshire. A well...
...would indicate how you are going to cast, what flies you would tie, although I don't apply it with the same rigor...