Word: thinly
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...seven-year-old whose feet did not reach the rudder pedals to fly an airplane across the country in a misbegotten publicity stunt--as long as a licensed pilot was beside her. At week's end a federal investigator suggested that Jessica's Cessna was overloaded for the thin Rocky Mountain air and wind shear may have induced the flight instructor to take over the controls in the plane's last few moments...
...Bureau of Study Counsel will host a workshop for men whose friends and lovers are survivors of violence. On Thin Ice will perform in a benefit show for a battered women's shelter in the Lyman Common Room from...
...Young Poisoner's Handbook" is definitely a movie for those with strong stomachs. The cinematography and casting don't, however, make up for the lack of characterization and thin humor in a movie that is supposed to be a black comedy. The film is so long and meandering that, in the end, we simply become desensitized to Graham's crimes. Gentle souls should stay far away...
What makes this pursuit more absurd is that Harvard lavishes honors upon almost all of her students. "Cum Laude in General Studies," which has been transformed for the thin-skinned into the less euphemistic, "Cum Laude," offers more than 80 percent of the class the opportunity to snag honors without assuming any additional departmental burdens. There are real reasons to write a thesis. With the perspective of time (all two weeks of it), I find myself remembering fondly my final month, where I bled some 80 pages. The thesis stands before me now, not as some alien product...
McGinn doesn't mean that subjective experience is literally a miracle. He considers himself a materialist, if in a "thin" sense. He presumes there is some physical explanation for subjective experience, even though he doubts that the human brain--or mind, or whatever--can ever grasp it. Nevertheless, McGinn doesn't laugh at people who take the water-into-wine metaphor more literally. "I think in a way it's legitimate to take the mystery of consciousness and convert it into a theological system. I don't do that myself, but I think in a sense it's more rational...