Word: trait
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...cuddliness is the trait that keeps him from seeming smarmy. "He is a political leader with charisma," says a former Cabinet minister. "He knows how to speak the people's language." For a politician to come across as having school-marmish intelligence without the humanizing mushy center can mean an abbreviated career. People don't want their elementary-school principal running the country?he was bad enough when he was just running your school. We all want a bright leader, but one also equipped with an enormous heart. Whether Chen has that is a matter of some debate. Even...
...feel rotten most of the time by a certain age, you're always gonna feel lousy . . ." The rest of the piece boils down to a long explanation for why Haspiel was asked to draw the strip. Yes, it's completely self-reflexive and self-involved, another Pekar trait. Basically you like it if you like Pekar...
...reaction revealed a trait Europeans have long considered a quintessentially American attribute: political naiveté. It seems pretty obvious now that a Texas oilman with a proven aversion to antipollution regulation and a firm grounding in the don't-tread-on-me ideology of Western Republicans would reject a complicated agreement like the one forged in Kyoto, Japan in 1997. A few weeks ago, Bush clearly indicated his opposition to the central tenet of that agreement -curbing global warming by cutting emissions of carbon dioxide -in a letter to several Republican Senators. In it, he abandoned a campaign pledge...
Third, the general anonymity that comes with attending a 6,000-person school isn't nearly as strong at 6'2". People recognize me. Any physical trait that differs from the norm makes a person easily noticeable, and extreme height is the most easily identifiable of all. From my lofty perch, I stick out in a crowd; my taste for brightly colored clothing only adds to the phenomenon. Visibility can be a distinctly negative trait when trying to blend in with a group during the middle school years or when movie-hopping (I get caught). But visibility has its positive...
...bringing a fundamental good (love) into the world. Whether the partners in this union choose their sexual orientation or not is irrelevant to the fact that the two people love one another. (Though it should be noted that the scientific evidence overwhelmingly indicates that homosexuality is an inborn trait and not a choice...