Word: shaken
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...more thoroughgoing theological initiative has been undertaken by the Catholic Church. Christianity's position on Abraham had remained depressingly consistent since Justin Martyr's condemnation of the circumcised, but theologians at the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65, shaken by the Holocaust, reread Paul's letters. They noted that at one point Paul calls the Covenant between God and the Jews irrevocable and that in one passage he compares Christians to a wild olive branch grafted onto the tree of Judaism. "If the Covenant between God and the children of Abraham dies," says Fisher, "the branch withers with the roots...
...matron, Julianne Moore gives a tautly frazzled turn that is a lock for an Oscar nomination. The problem is that Haynes reduces most of his characters to stick figures bearing placards. The film is a high-camp cocktail - a martini with gin and hemlock - that's shaken but not stirring. The Magdalene Sisters came to town fresh from copping the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. It's basically a women-in-prison movie, set in Dublin in the '60s, when some girls were sent to convent reformatories, which, at least as shown here, were run by some very...
...efforts of Crimson Key to preserve its noble, Caucasian heritage have not just been limited to ass-dumb op-eds in The Crimson and Independent. Keysters have also been boldly continuing their proud tradition of manipulatively seducing innocent, white first-years during freshman week. Complained a shaken Trisha D. Young ’06: “Warren [W. Warrenthorp III ’04] was white in all the wrong places?...
...what age must a child be shaken awake from her dream life into reality? Nine, says Ratnam's haunting new film A Peck on the Cheek. Amudha (the sweetly precocious P.S. Keerthana) is celebrating her birthday, secure in the love of her Madras parents, a writer and a TV news reader. They have chosen this day to give the girl startling news: she is adopted, and the identity of her birth mother has been lost in the carnage of the Sri Lankan...
...speech might actually spur action. Now, a decade from Rio, after I've sat through many more conferences, I'm not sure what has been accomplished. My confidence in the people in power and in the power of an individual's voice to reach them has been deeply shaken...