Word: straying
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Darker Than Amber is hardly elegant, but like other stray examples of the type that have appeared over the past couple of years (Blake Edwards' Gunn and Paul Bogart's Marlowe), it proves that the tough-private-eye tradition is hard to kill...
...seven worked as a swineherd to support his family. Later, as a blacksmith's apprentice, working the great bellows and watching metal being hammered into new shapes, he began to dream of creating forms of his own. After his eyesight had been injured by stray sparks from the forge, he joined his family in Madrid and eventually became a baker. Some of the patterns characteristic of Spanish breads can be observed in his sculpture. "All his life he was kneading and sculpting." says Alberto's nephew Jorge, who grew up in his uncle's apartment in Moscow...
...awareness. Loyalty seems a more comprehensive and powerful motive force than "obligation." a word which implies formal duties and rational ranking of commitments. How do these fit into Walzer's hierarchy? A glossary or an expository chapter might have looked awkward but it would have saved confusien later. Stray aphorisms like "Solidarity is the patriotism of the Left" neglect to explain what patriotism and solidarity really are. The author should give more content to the nonrational dimensions of political theory-loyalty, patriotism. etc.-which enter his discussion...
...here in Cambridge. And the fare at the Union is notably unsatisfying, so at some point you will probably stray drooling into the Square and environs, rubbing your money. There are many cateries around, all of them U. S.-government inspected 100 per cent disease free. In roughly ascending order of price some of them...
When the barriers go down and the bronze doors of St. Peter's part, people are herded like stray sheep into pens on both sides of the central nave. Outside, a few holders of blue tickets are ushered along niches and cornices of pitted travertine marble through a side entrance and into box seats from which they can observe, with slightly arched nostrils, the antics below...