Word: speechlessly
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This person's opponent was such a weak debater that he could not even refute this poor excuse for a case. He challenged social Darwinism with arguments based on social contract theory. When asked what the social contract was, however, he was speechless...
...said that fastidious filmmakers retreat in dismay muttering, ``Does he mean, like, bathroom jokes?'' Ignoring the advice, they end up dying out there with cute, cautious comedies like Speechless and I.Q. (not to mention spineless farces like Mixed Nuts). Meanwhile, Dumb and Dumber becomes the most popular movie in America. ``Gross-out grosses,'' its rivals may sniff, and they would not be wrong. But so what? The fact is that D and D--in comparison with which Jim Carrey's other pictures look as if they were scripted by Oscar Wilde--makes you laugh out loud for almost its entire...
...said that fastidious filmmakers retreat in dismay muttering, "Does he mean, like, bathroom jokes?" Ignoring the advice, they end up dying out there with cute, cautious comedies like Speechless and I.Q. (not to mention spineless farces like Mixed Nuts). Meanwhile, Dumb and Dumber becomes the most popular movie in America. "Gross-out grosses," its rivals may sniff, and they would not be wrong. But so what? The fact is that D and D -- in comparison with which Jim Carrey's other pictures look as if they were scripted by Oscar Wilde -- makes you laugh out loud for almost its entire...
Both are born in the French colony of Algeria to barely literate mothers with severe hearing disabilities. Both come to be raised entirely by these largely speechless women because both, scarcely a year old, lose their fathers, killed in World War I during the first Battle of Marne in 1914. Camus writes, in the person of Cormery, "I tried to discover as a child what was right and wrong since no one around could tell me. And now I recognize that everything abandoned me, that I need someone to show me the way, to blame and praise me . . . I need...
Another listener said he was so affected by thereading that it left his speechless...