Word: shallowing
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Using evidence available on the surface, Lash says, most of the writers that trod the historical ground before him concluded that Helen was somewhat shallow. They preferred Annie to Helen. The reason is simple, he says. "Helen was almost too good." Her world was one of friends and enemies, black and white; those who cared for her were good; those who slandered her Teacher were not. As Lash quotes Alexander Graham Bell, there was a feeling among those who met her that "if God undertook to be represented on the earth, it would be in the person of someone like...
...week trying to see how deep the recession of 1980 would go. Just about everybody agrees by now that the nation is in a slump, yet no one knows whether plummeting interest rates, soaring unemployment and lethargic consumer spending foretell an economic decline that will be brief or prolonged, shallow or deep...
...clutter of common experience a meaning and order unavailable to the casual eye. What come through most sharply in the photographs is an immediacy and potency of detail, an aura of enchanted concreteness radiating from the most ordinary places and things--the raw blue color of gravel, a shallow driveway, the symmetrical vacancies of parking lots, the abject curve in the necks of street lamps...
...showed us that the issue of Levine's academic qualifications was not as clear cut as we had initially believed. The conversation with the professor did not necessarily contradict the information on which we based our objection, but it did point out that our info was one-sided and shallow...
FROM THE POCKETS of property taxpayers will come the dollars needed to keep the cuts in services fairly shallow this year. But a new constraint on services threatens. Tax bills are mailed out in the fall; and two weeks later another autumn event, statewide elections, will offer taxpayers the chance for a California-style tax revolt. "People can't vote to decrease their grocery bills or the amount of money they pay for heat," Duehay said recently. "I'm afraid that coming on the heels of this tax increase, voters may be in a very receptive mood for tax-cutting...