Word: sparkingly
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...several pieces in this book, her corrosive humor is quick to point out the hollowness of most mass culture while remaining faithful to its occasional ability to spark or capture real emotion. If she's good at ridiculing fans--soap opera watchers, record buyers, people who believe in movies--it's because she is, always and obviously, a fan herself...
These kinds of Republican activities are getting media play, far more than any legislative initiatives or long-term policy planning. Scores of articles have quoted prominent Republicans who gleefully relate how much the unpopular Bill Clinton has done for their party. But while the spark of Clinton-bashing can start the GOP engine, the party will have to provide its own motive poser. When your party is out of the White House, it's certainly harder to gain attention for proactive steps. Harder, and far more critical. For initiative is the key to destroy a reputation for stagnancy...
...Since 1986, some 10,000 people have died in an A.N.C.-Inkatha power struggle that in parts of Natal has taken on civil-war proportions. Even assuming the rivalry cools among top leaders, blood feuds, local turf wars, scrambling for scarce jobs, general intolerance and even tribal antipathy could spark continued fighting...
Experience drains away as a result of an internal contradiction. Students join minority clubs because of a spark of self-searching, but the inherent evanescence of that spark hurts the organizations that fight political battles...
...course, Rudenstine presumably hoped that the invitation would continue to spark protest, up to and through Commencement. And he did nothing to prevent tomorrow's protests...