Word: soaring
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...peroration about the importance of hope. The setup always seemed a bit defensive to me - an attack on the pundits and party elders who thought he was too idealistic, a "hopemonger" who needed to have the "hope boiled out of me." Having knocked down that straw man, he would soar through an American history of hope, from the colonists to civil rights marchers. It was the core of his message: patriotism defined as change, the creation of a more perfect union. And so it was rather shocking to hear Obama speak - stripped down and hope redacted - in Wilkes-Barre...
...between the huge rise in gold production in China and the listings of those companies," says Auslan Ishmael, general manager of the China International Mining Group, an industry association. "This definitely put pressure on those companies to get a good return." Zhaojin Mining, for example, has seen its revenue soar by more than 100% a year for the past four years...
...almost all his films. Onstage, you can see the author and his cast sweating to please a live audience, which hoots its disapproval of the naughty characters and its delight at all that vigor. Also, the shows are musicals, and it's during the singing that they really soar--Dreamgirls meets the Ebenezer Baptist Church choir, and the congregation's spirits raise the roof...
...desperately needed a win to keep pace with the Bears in the standings Jenkins came up to the plate in the fourth inning with his team nursing a narrow lead. Ever the hacker, Jenkins unloaded on—what else—a first-pitch fastball and saw it soar out towards the tall net above the fence in left field. “As soon as I hit it, I took two hard steps out of the box and I looked up and I thought, ‘You know, I think that has a chance...
...likely to have much personal investment in the people. Actually, Married Life doesn't suck. Its actors lend conviction to their roles, and the film looks classy, like a visit to my favorite Greenwich Village Deco furniture store (Adelaide, on West Tenth Street). But the film doesn't soar either. Finally, it's only about as interesting as...married life...