Word: triumphant
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...first time, one of Donato’s recruiting classes will hit the ice. The honeymoon—the first season, the triumphant wins over the nation’s best, the return to the NCAA tournament—is over for Donato...
Donna James felt triumphant. She had recently been promoted to senior vice president at Nationwide, an insurance and financial-services company in Columbus, Ohio, where she had started years ago as an accountant. But then a white male colleague burst her bubble. "You know, Donna," he said, "the jury is still out on whether you are where you are because you have talent or because you are female and black." James was stunned into silence, not because she had never beheld such a stereotype in the workplace but because no one had ever voiced it to her face. Her colleague...
...Doom” the movie also ignores perhaps the most crucial part of the game series: losing. For every time you are triumphant, surviving the onslaught of countless bad guys, there are a thousand times where you can’t quite anticipate the movement of that horrible alien-creature-thing, and you slowly fall to the ground, a red film covering the screen as teeth, claws, and chainsaw blades meet your flesh. While it may have been impossible for the film to include “game over” screens, it could have made an effort to emulate...
...break beats. "I've always quite liked that [retro kids' TV] feel, but I'd always want to make it more dirty in some way," says Parton. "If you are going to have recorders, make them distorted." It's a potentially disastrous mix, but one that somehow ends up triumphant every time. Parton assembled his team after small independent label Memphis Industries picked up the album in September of last year for release. He was offered a date at a Swedish festival called Accelerator (he's still wearing the T shirt) and was spurred to action. "It was always...
...dark, brooding sensibility” and the “amazing production design of ‘Batman,’” it’s no surprise that “Charlie” made it off the ground. What the public received, instead of a triumphant return to form for a once interesting and offbeat commercial director, was a cultural product more neo-fascist in character than a cabinet meeting in the Bush administration. How a movie about an evil dictator who fires all his employees, leaving them impoverished, wretched, starving, and without dignity, only...