Word: unspoken
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...unspoken, perhaps unconscious axiom of criticism that optimistic works are dismissed as sentimental, while pessimistic works are pronounced profound. Some other time we'll munch on the reasons that critics, nestled in the comfort of their intellectual splendor, overvalue works that say life stinks. For now, we'll note that any serious film with a bright or dewy eye runs the risk of exile from the received canon of dark and Sturmy cinema...
...coordinator of the Official U.K. Charts Company, which last week announced it will debut a U.K. digital-download singles chart this fall, the world's first such national chart. Weighting the various download formats is a huge challenge, and security to thwart chart riggers will be tight, but the unspoken sticking point remains price. A high-tech black market is flourishing - global sales of blank CDs soared 40% last year. Meanwhile an old market founders: Madonna's single, a steal at just $1.49 a download, made Billboard's Top 10 with a paltry 4,000 sales in one week...
...level of bureaucracy to the first week of classes. Students wishing to change all four of their courses—as presently happens quite often—would need to file eight forms, secure four professors’ signatures and visit their concentration advisers. Simultaneously, students may feel unspoken obligations to attend classes for which they register—a few months thinking about a particular class schedule may tie students to it psychologically...
...Sharon denying his own base in order to draw a party of reluctant doves who differ sharply with his policies into a national unity government? The answer may lie in the fact that the unspoken coalition-partner of any Israeli government is the President of the United States - the ally whose requests Israel cannot afford to ignore and whose red lines it cannot afford to cross. Sharon, of course, has no worries on that front - at least for now. He has achieved a unity of purpose with the Bush administration that few had thought possible when he was first elected...
Lee’s column is soaked in the mentality that the U.S. is responsible for everything good that ever happened to South Korea. Such sentiment would be unwelcome in South Korea, where the unspoken sentiment is that South Koreans achieved democracy not because of, but in spite of the U.S., in the past an eager supporter of the military dictatorships and possibly a silent accomplice in the Kwangju massacre of May 1980 that put down a swelling pro-democracy movement...