Word: ruining
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...reach a morally serious conclusion has to compare the potential difficulties of an invasion to the very real costs of allowing a brutal tyrant to continue unimpeded. Those who ignore the ponderous moral burden entailed by their position are no better than the appeaseniks whose timidity and fear brought ruin to so much of Europe, Asia and North Africa 60 years...
...didn’t know it could melt so fast and ruin clothes,” said Orlando native Patrick D. Brown. “I’m looking forward to a long day at Logan Airport...
Well, that ends here. It may ruin reality producers' marketing plans for a TV critic to say it, but reality TV is, in fact, the best thing to happen to television in several years. It has given the networks water-cooler buzz again; it has reminded viewers jaded by sitcoms and dramas why TV can be exciting; and at its best, it is teaching TV a new way to tell involving human stories...
...likely to prove cautionary for other filmmakers. There was no shortage of Sancho Panzas on this shoot. But in show biz, the one-eyed visionary is always (or until it's too late) king. His fellow adventurers' realism and reasonableness could not prevent Don Quixote's gallant gallop to ruin. --By Richard Schickel
...knows his work unavoidably carries a message. The final version of the novel is the result of at least one major choice about presentation and plot line which he says could have changed the tone of the book entirely and sent the wrong message—more detail might ruin the story. But Turow, in contrast to many others in his genre, does treat his writing as art, taking time in the mornings to write before practicing law in the afternoons at the Chicago branch of the international firm Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal...