Word: temperedness
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"Their effect will be tempered by the fact that there is an anonymous vote," said Krishnan N. Subrahmanian '03, a council member. "On the other hand, [student groups' presence] could make people realize that this is an actual person we're dealing with, as opposed to just rhetoric."
The force of these grim tidings is tempered by the knowledge that U.S. government agencies have been working alongside the country's most prestigious research facilities to conjure up ways of dealing with these hurtling rocks should an asteroid ever establish itself as a threat. "Once they've identified the...
Allen is lucky that his clever though slight concept is bolstered by actors who breathe an impressive amount of life into their limited characters. Sean Penn gleefully slips into Emmets skin. Stuttering, overconfident and vulnerable, Emmet is a bundle of nervous tics that Penn knows how to make believable. Emmet...
When it comes to Norman Rockwell, we all know what we're supposed to think. Rockwell is to modern art what Robert Mapplethorpe is to family values--a slap in the face to all serious standards. So much the worse that for decades he was the best-loved American artist...
But as much as I still love the British I don't particularly care for the monarchy and never have. To me the symbol of Britishness was never the bejeweled Queen, but rather that single, smiling, unarmed police officer (a "bobby") standing guard before the door of the Prime Minister...