Word: till
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...much pride in her womanhood, her race and her artistry to turn herself into a sorry paradigm of self-pity. Rather she could make each song she sang a personal testament -- a confession, a regret, a reverie. She did not trade on her personal devastation. She used it till the end, to drive her artistry...
...thing, director Rob Reiner's realization of this passage is an omen of all the crispness to come in an extraordinarily well-made movie, which wastes no words or images in telling a conventional but compelling story. All its scenes have been polished till they shine like brass belt buckles at a regimental parade. More important, metaphorically the few good men of that drill team have attained the military ideal -- perfect order, perfect discipline. They are, for their brief moment, an impossible dream made manifest. And a vivid contrast to the rest of the action...
...even more need of an antidote to the cynicism that paralyzes the political process and that played a large role in the decline of Bush's political effectiveness. Hopefully, we are starting to realize that our government functions better when we refrain from assuming it is guilty 'till proven innocent...
Well, it happens to the best of us, justifying till we have no margins. It's no fun to think of this place as a lavish summer camp, or to ponder those restored, fortified gates re-assuming their imperious, exclusive positions; that's all the class of 1877 could come up with, really? If others had not been foolish we should...
...because it allows you to fool yourself into believing that you are achieving something, because the rewards for drama in the college environment are so much more attractive and immediate than for a person studying say, government. He may work much harder, but he won't see the rewards till he gets out into the real world and achieves something because there are so many others who look just like...