Word: trappings
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...real tragedy of this obsessive preoccupation with Eurocentrism is that it is a trap and a diversion. Of all the reasons for the difficulties encountered by the minority kids in and out of school, curricular Eurocentrism ranks, if at all, at the bottom. That New York State, in the midst of an education crisis, should be devoting its attention to cleansing the grade school curriculum of Eurocentrism is a waste, a willful turning away from real problems...
...nice fellow. But Rockne's suit was afraid of Musburger's suit, and kept trying to bend the wrong way at the knees and elbows. Rockne's suit is wrinkled and brown. Musburger's is the finest in town, but others nearly as rich and dark trap the light of distant stars in the lobbies of the Hilton and the Hyatt Regency...
HUPD seems to have made every effort to trap and publicly expose the people who were arrested. At two times during the afternoon of Jan. 18, an undercover officer was stationed in the bathroom to "cruise" the men there and then arrest them for responding...
...TERM "greenhouse effect" is used to represent the accumulation of trace gases in the atmosphere. These gases prevent the release of the sun's radiation back into space and trap the heat in the earth's atmosphere, leading to global warming. Without greenhouse gases like water vapor and carbon dioxide, our planet would reach a much lower average temperature and would be unable to support life as we know...
Mona Karim, who plays Cenci's daughter, Beatrice, falls all too often into this trap. While Shelley's play is intended to be a tragedy, Karim fails to convey believable anger in her accusations. There is so little emotion in her portrayal of Beatrice that when she reveals the incest forced upon her by her father, one may be uncertain of exactly what has happened to her. Were it not for Shelley's plot summary in the opening scene, the main tension of the play might go undiscovered...