Word: sparkingly
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...knew it was all over when Brown tried an onside kickoff to start the second half. It didn't work. Harvard took over near midfield, and any comeback spark the Bruins might have had never materialized...
...rather tiresomely and foolishly repeats that young Abrahams represents "a different God and a different mountain." As Cross plays the stereotypical Jew, so Gielgud plays the stereotypical Cambridge/Oxford master: stiff collar, talk of good sportsmanship, supercilious expression, after-dinner liqueur. His upper-crust old-schoolishness lacks a human spark; consequently the character appears a flat cardboard mockup of the real thing...
Perhaps if judges and elected officials were more aware of the psychological complexities of many men convicted of major crimes today, they would be less prone to hurling suspects into maximum security houses. Perhaps they would see that it is not always caprice or greed or malice that spark felonies, but grown psychological problems, often instilled at birth and magnified by years of social ostracization. America's prisons could stop masquerading as "correctional facilities," and start addressing the real problems--social and psychiatric--that lead men to crime
Breier's confrontational tactics cause some authorities to wince. In Milwaukee as in Los Angeles County, community leaders have not forgotten that the acquittal of four patrolmen accused of the fata beating of a black businessman was the spark that ignited the murderous Miami riot...
...think we may just be mentally tired," Keller-Sarmiento said after the contest. "We're just not clicking. We need a spark to turn us around," he added...