Word: sakes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...looking at stuff that makes me ill. It doesn't feel as important or profound as experiencing something of great beauty. Mostly I just get tired of it. But "Marbles in My Underpants," needs to exist, if not for the pleasure of aesthetic masochists, than at least for sake of debate. After all, once you are debating whether a work is art or not, you have already proven...
...these ideas have been batted around, and mostly down, for years. Some gloomy experts say there needs to be at least one more delay-plagued summer season before all interested parties in the industry will sit down and seriously entertain higher prices or equipment changes, or, for heaven's sake, flying to one of the scores of smaller airports...
...okay to care, to behave as if the game is life and death, rather than just “life” and “death.” The real, academic competition that defines Harvard life, and that we so assiduously sweep under the rug for the sake of social peace, spills out with a vengeance. And it isn’t a pretty sight...
...arrangement. I like them to keep their distance. Well, so much for that. The two of them are now as thick as thieves, e-mailing guest lists, announcements, sample menus, rendering useless my usual role as go-between. I'm a little confused. Are they getting friendly for the sake of their child, or have they grown...
More than this, many supporters of the living wage don’t like the self-righteous attitude of the living wage campaign. Though they are fighting a worthy cause, the protesters are increasingly giving off the attitude that they are martyring themselves for the sake of the world, and they are snippy and rude to anybody who is not as committed as they are. They have lost perspective and have such grandiose views of their current situation that sometimes it seems as if the issue has become more about them than about those they are trying to help, even...