Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of drawing out the comic possibilities of this lovely scenario, the BSC actors tend to remain in pointed and stiff positions throughout the show, producing an artificial and amateurish effect--though they relax somewhat by the third...
...first problem that serious hats and hatters face is that most men tend to think they look idiotic wearing one. That is often true, but need not be. Fred Astaire may be God's best human design for a serious hat (or for something more problematic, like the straw boater). But even short fat men, who think that serious hats turn them into Nikita Khrushchev, can usually find one that makes them look better than they deserve. Oddly, women often wear men's hats more handsomely than...
...never had a sense of what students life is life to students tend to take all large or all small courses? If they're very busy with extracurricular, do they plan their schedules differently?" Whitla explained...
...another factor in the poor handling of somatizers, he suggests, is that these patients tap into the physicians' own conflicts. Doctors, Ford argues, see a reflection of themselves in their somatizing patients. Citing studies, plus his own research, he says that many doctors and many somatizers tend to be emotionally inhibited, with high rates of sexual and marital difficulties and a high incidence of drug abuse. As children, both groups frequently lacked close, affectionate relationships with their parents. Their childhoods were commonly marked by a death or serious illness in the family that left them with anxieties about disease...
Faced with somatizing patients, says Ford, physicians are uncomfortably reminded, often unconsciously, of their own inadequacies. As a result, a doctor may reject a patient outright. For example, a physician who is depressed and abusing liquor will tend to shy away from a patient who is an alcoholic. Conversely, the doctor may become overly solicitous, a tactic that backfires. Ford believes the words "You're fine; come back and see me if something develops" are a virtual invitation to create new symptoms...