Word: shapely
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...That being said, the individuality of these works surpasses their essential similarities. Some of the processional crosses, in fact, play with the very shape of the cross, adding enough filigree and ornamentation that we honestly should question their geometrical status as "cross...
...minded she was, isn't Boston lucky to have had her, etc.), mention that although the figure of the cross does not arise simultaneously with Christianity, it becomes a strikingly powerful image by the Medieval period. So powerful, widely recognized and anticipated, apparently, that even a suggestion of a shape more or less in the cross family evokes the appropriate spiritual response...
...leaders on both sides - hawk- vs.-dove differences in both capitals notwithstanding - need to bring the matter to a close, their room for maneuver may also be limited by domestic political concerns. China's closed authoritarian system is nonetheless complex, with a number of rival power centers competing to shape the national agenda as President Jiang Zemin acts as a ringmaster, mindful of the need to shape his own succession and also, to a degree, of Chinese public opinion. The fallout from the accidental U.S. bombing of China's Belgrade embassy two years ago also revealed the depths of nationalist...
...Shuhada checkpoint on the Ramallah road with her young son Ibrahim. He is suffering an asthma attack, and his Palestinian doctor has told her to get him quickly to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. The Israeli army lieutenant in charge, Ari Doron, sees that the boy is in bad shape and frantically telephones higher-ups for permission to let him and his mother through. After agonizing delays, Doron's request is denied, but he decides to disobey the order. By then it is too late; Ibrahim dies in a waiting ambulance...
...right size," and the business lobby (no doubt receiving a promise to be first in line next time around) dutifully returned to the sidelines empty-handed. And so the White House has been leery of reopening negotiations on the tax cut's size and shape, for fear the corporate folk will come rushing back...