Word: slacked
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...like the balance Forster and screenwriter David Benioff achieve between large historical events and purely personal ones, I like the easy, but never slack, pace of their storytelling, and, above all, I like the way sympathetic portraits do not shade into sentimental ones. This is a confident and honorable movie - and a gripping one. I've come to think that stories about ordinary people blown helplessly through the world on the winds of endless war were the central narrative of the 20th century and, likely, the central one of the 21st century as well. Much of humanity has been turned...
...their thoughts are turned to print and posts. Much too quickly. Me, I'm trying to type as fast as I can. The mind is willing, but the fingers just won't fly like they used to. That's why I'm able to cut the Rocket a little slack, just like Senator Mitchell suggested. As for the rest of my fellow journalists, well, maybe we need the Senator to continue his work...
...speeches alone—but I suspect this is a calculated trade-off. After all, we’re talking about a film here, not a philosophy paper. Even a dyed-in-the-wool culture snob such as yours truly has to permit a bit of slack in exchange for a watchable movie. In the final analysis, the film’s myriad of merits derive from its high brow repartee, its majestic visual representation of an African-American South as intellectual as it is sensuous, its unapologetic portrayal of gruesome racial violence, and its mise-en-sc?...
...Harvard defense put the lockdown on Strong, who scored just three points after the break. Instead, sophomores Corey Lowe and Scott Brittain picked up the slack to combine for 27 second-half points...
Hart and Colling teamed up with freshmen Katy Hinkle and Ali Slack to finish sixth in the 200-yard medley in 1:46.52. Colling, Hinkle, Slack and freshman classmate Laura Murray then swam Harvard to another sixth-place finish in the 400 free relay to conclude the meet...