Word: superiors
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...justify it, not to pretend any grand intentions. Holden never felt the need to explain himself, nor did Huck. (Both, I believe, could have grown up to be capable journalists.) To be out of things has to mean everything, including the implication that one is a superior person for being there. Yet, I tell you, I do feel better this...
...Speaking before a preview performance last week, Vidal says he was inspired by the politics of 1960, when Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic Hamlet, battled Young Turk Jack Kennedy for the party's presidential nomination. "You have a very noble and eloquent and witty man, a superior man, who is just a ditherer, to be blunt about it, up against a real political operator, on the order of Nixon. So we have a Stevensonian character and a Nixonian character. But they're not thinly disguised portraits, they're archetypes. Just for fun I made the political operator with a totally virtuous...
...attributes we were looking for were first, professional excellence and quality credentials; second, somebody who could lead the department into the next century; and third, and somebody who had superior judgment," she said. "On all three levels, Chief Riley has done extraordinarily well...
...dreams that are at once brutal and sad, yet, like Zellweger's heroine, full of an eagerly chirping life. What's best about this movie is that it plays our abnormalcy as normalcy. It lets its people live (and occasionally die) with their lunacies gloriously intact, uninstructed by superior attitudes or indulgent patronization...
...their mark on both sides of the Pacific, play wise warriors defending their lord from a mysterious invader. While Chow and Yeoh tiptoe toward the awareness that they may have little time to realize their unspoken love, a girl-woman (radiant ingenue Zhang Ziyi) teases them with her suspiciously superior martial skills and tests both their emotional and physical equilibrium...