Word: succumbing
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...Class consciousness has turned out to be less a factor in shaping these lives than he thought. It is energy and accident that have made all the difference. A cabdriver who Apted was worried might succumb to criminality has become a mini real estate mogul in Spain, a man who was for some years homeless is now a minor government official, a librarian who works with the severely handicapped continues to stick to her idealistic guns, while a schoolteacher who worked extensively in the Third World is back at the traditional public school he once attended in England...
...from jail--has moved in with his mother nearby, in a sort of living, breathing nightmare on Elm Street. Is he still a threat? An ex-cop (Noah Emmerich) has no doubt on that point and is devoting his many idle days to harassing him. Fair warning: don't succumb too quickly to sympathy or antipathy for any of the characters. They are each a trickier part of this movie's complex scheme than they at first seem...
...sure, Arabs don't succumb readily to being herded in one direction, even where common interests dictate. All could bolt for the door, appease the terrorists and just raise oil prices. But we don't know until we try hard...
...exploited, and has been a frighteningly effective sales pitch for the White House. That's why we need a major counteroffensive - a wide-ranging campaign to help spread fearlessness so as to inoculate the country against this shameful campaign strategy. Otherwise, we're going to once again succumb to our lizard brains and keep voting our fears - even as our logical brains tell us that the fearmongers in power have made us all less safe. The more we learn to overcome the fears that limit us, the more we'll be able to counter those looking to keep us shrouded...
...confession as unequivocal as the one offered up by John Mark Karr on Thursday would probably be enough to close almost any tough case. But the mystery surrounding the 1996 murder of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey simply will not succumb to easy explanations. Within a day of the reclusive, expatriate teacher's admission in Bangkok - that he "accidentally" killed the girl a decade ago, when his plot to kidnap her went awry - questions about his claims have only multiplied...