Word: trait
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...cross-country team of researchers, led by Spiegel and Kosslyn, first found several test subjects—including Harvard undergraduates—who were “highly susceptible” to hypnosis. Hypnotic inducibility has been characterized as a consistent trait that can be tested for by specific methods. One’s score on these tests is based on what stage of relaxation one can achieve. It has not yet been determined what is responsible for a person’s susceptibility to hypnosis, but many believe that, like risk-taking and susceptibility to addictions...
...history that rarely appears in American comix. Jacek Fras mixes collage with silly cartoon characters in a story that takes place during the Polish resistance against the Nazis. Jurcan & Cvek's "Condemned Ideas" examines the failure of ideologies from Fascism to Communism to Capitalism. But the most unifying trait turns out to be a kind of dark, absurdist sensibility. In Goran Feniks' "A Weird Story," a man takes care of some paperwork while plummeting to his death from an airplane explosion. There's ample amounts of satire and schadenfruede, but little humor of the joyful, delightful kind...
Dearaujo said Romney’s entry into the race has “energized the party.” Dearaujo said he felt Romney’s chief advantages were his charisma—a trait he said was rare among Republicans—and his lack of connection to many of the controversies affecting the Swift administration...
...terrible thing about people like you," she tells Sidney, "is that decent people have to become like you in order to stop you - in order to survive." In other words, to stay pure they must do corrupt things. Of course, Susie could be lying; it's a family trait...
...room will get a gleam in their eyes--a little ignition of trench-coat wanderlust, their minds flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch of Henry Luce, "He was amazed and delighted to learn whatever he had not known before." Curiosity is the noblest form of intellectual energy; in any case, your mind goes nowhere without it--except maybe...