Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff are carefully trained not to provide inadvertent time cues to the subjects, since any apprehension by a subject of the actual time could ruin a study...
...ancestors. After a confrontation with his mother, be realizes his transgressions, but the 'natives' are not willing to accept him, and the British feel that be is acting rebellious. Overall, Ansah creates a riveting film, but be should have felt compelled to cut certain explicitly violent scenes which ruin the eloquence of "Heritage Africa...
When you get all the fans to come out in the rain when you ruin a bedsheet to make a sign, when you come out so fiery that the hair on your neck stands up, you're not supposed to lose...
...already the one big fish in Boston's tiny cultural pond. In London he would have been a sprat in a sea of talent. So he hung back for nine more years, until 1774, and left only when the riots and disturbances that presaged the American Revolution threatened to ruin his market...
...prior interruptions, can render readers peevish. Ultimately, The Unconsoled suggests a considerable talent pursuing a questionable achievement. Ishiguro has created the literary equivalent of an endless bad dream: the fright engendered by impossible expectations, the frustration of feeling powerless to deflect an apparently inevitable slide toward shame and ruin. But Ryder's ordeal seems less malevolent than capricious. He is the benumbed victim of nothing more sinister than a patchy memory and a tight schedule. Why reproduce a free-floating nightmare when the real thing lurks each night for billions of people, unbidden and free of charge...