Word: sisterly
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...deep dimple that, when she laughs, runs up her left cheek like a sweet scar; and your ears to her rich cello voice, so mature and supple an instrument for someone who's played girls on the cusp of womanhood since her movie debut as Keira Knightley's sister Kitty in the 2005 Pride and Prejudice...
Though a fair number of Spanish names for both sexes will find asylum on American shores, the majority appear doomed - and the Social Security Administration has the cold numbers to illustrate the point. Juan lost 18 spots in the past decade, going from 48th to 66th. Its sister name, Juanita, fell through the floor, plummeting from 792nd place to 1,002nd in the same period. Guillermo lost more than 100 spots between 1998 and 2008, sliding from No. 369 to 470. Angelica crashed from 109th place to 257th in the same stretch; Manuel has gone from 147th to 186th...
...handy symbols for any writer who feels inclined to muse on the nature of human identity, which is basically every writer ever. But twins aren't symbols; they're people. There are not, to my knowledge, any great identical-twin novelists (though I think John Barth has a twin sister), and I have never yet read a fictional account of twinness that I found convincing, with one exception: Darin Strauss's excellent Chang and Eng, about Barnum & Bailey's famous Siamese twins. As Elspeth tells her lover Robert shortly before she dies, "You haven't got a twin...
...Mary was more than that. To us, she was a sister, a friend, a confidante and a superb creative partner. She was also vulnerable, flawed and, like us, struggling to overcome fear and self-doubt. But she never shied away from standing up for what she believed...
...including Haiti, Rwanda, Peru, and Russia, said they felt inspired by the speakers and the stories.“I was so involved with numbers and Excel that I had little time to do home visits,” said Odile Nzirabatinya, the Chief Financial Officer for the PIH sister organization in Rwanda. “Now, I feel more energized to be more involved with field work.”Several Harvard students who managed to snag tickets to the sold-out event expressed similar sentiment.“Social justice has always been a burden on my heart...