Word: spokenness
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...continuing evolution of the 81-year-old Pope was also reflected in the memories he shared later with the young people about his own youth in Nazi Germany. Though he had spoken about the Holocaust on a visit in 2006, bringing it up in New York - and making it personal - carried a new significance. "My own years as a teenager were marred by a sinister regime that thought it had all the answers" and "banished God and thus became imperious to anything true and good." He told his young listeners to thank God that they had instead grown...
...American-born Cardinal, who was Archbishop of San Francisco before Benedict brought him to Rome, said that there have already been some abuse cases in which the Vatican had "made exceptions" to canon laws - cases in which victims may not have spoken up until years later. "We found that many of the cases go back over quite a number of years, and [victims] don't feel personally able to come forward until they reach a certain level of maturity. Some canon norms are like statutes of limitations, and if the case warrants...we've been able to make exceptions...
...direct his work, McDonagh wasn't comfortable calling the shots at first. "The buck has never stopped with me before," he says. "It was terrifying." But the actors profited from his inexperience as a filmmaker. "Because he's a playwright, he's very particular about how the dialogue is spoken," Fiennes says. "The nuances, the rhythms, the repetitions are so specific, even with the four-letter words, that we wanted to get it exactly right. And we were excited by the challenge...
...choruses are so sublimely immersed in living sonics—and balanced ingeniously against verses with little more than drums and vocals—that the transitions between the two are huge, bright, and explosive. The listener can’t help but cringe at the brief, shamelessly emo spoken-word digression of the Graveyard Girl herself, but it’s forgiven by the time “found sounds” and computer whirrs lead it out. For a band named after another galaxy, “We Own The Sky” seems like an appropriate Reagan...
...Heather Mills,” when lead singer Anton Newcombe—singing more clearly than he will for most of the rest of the album—conversationally claims that he’ll “tell you all about it because you’ve spoken to me.” “It” turns out to be his soul, as is made clear in the lyrics, “Now I’ve walked with my soul, and it lives with my mind / And its gotta be going and it?...