Word: unfamiliarly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stresses the importance of studying the work of great performers of every type, regardless of one’s own artistic specialization. He further emphasized this point last week by reminding students attending his talk to take notes on his advice and by telling them to look up any unfamiliar author, actor, or literary work mentioned in his talk. Marceau believes that no single art form is greater than any other, but, instead, any work of any kind of art must be deeply moving to its audience in order to have worth...
Hillel’s noble effort at a welcoming ceremony is undercut each year by the cantor’s hijacking of the traditional tunes we know by heart. In their place, he substitutes unfamiliar and operatic renditions, ostensibly of the specific High Holiday melodies. Now, we’re the first to admit that our Hebrew is far from fluent: much of the Gates of Repentance prayerbook remains a mystery to us. We glance around quizzically at our more devout brethren during services—what is the thing when they bend their knees and bob their heads...
...difficulty for Latham, so far, is that he hasn't fully learned the politician's slippery art of feigning interest when he's in unfamiliar territory; he's transparent, whether cranky or bored. In Tasmania's old-growth forests with Greens leader Bob Brown earlier in the year, Latham seemed disengaged; his bearings were out of whack and he was subdued, Brown says. To remain fresh, Latham will also have to master distinguishing the meaningful from the banal when he tells his story. Launching a dental program in inner Sydney, Latham revealed to journalists and state politicians that...
...INTERVIEW WITH TIME, BUSH called the U.S. invasion of Iraq a "catastrophic success," which he defined as "being so successful so fast that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day." For those who are unfamiliar with Orwellian Newspeak or doublespeak, catastrophic success translates as failure in plain English...
...common room in the Weld basement, there were more students watching the game than there were players on the rosters of both teams. Lifelong Boston residents, their nervous eyes buried in their hands for the better part of a month, sat side-by-side with international students unfamiliar with the rules of the game. Together, we hung on Manny’s every swing, Zimmer’s every scowl, and Pedro’s every pitch and punch. The physical and emotional closeness of everyone in the room, regardless of rooting interest, could not have been possible...