Word: vaines
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...There is no question that bassist Sharpe has strong fingers, but his rhythmically monotonous solos seem to be rather weak in melodic ideas. On the tune "May Fair," drummer Scott soloed a la John Bonham for almost ten minutes, beating the living daylights out of his set in a vain, stiff-armed attempt at rhythmic expression. Tyner himself rarely unleashed runs of the dramatic four-note patterns that have made his sound so instantly recognizable in recent years. The McCoy Tyner group was a big disappointment this time around...
...corporate raider. For an article in Wired magazine late last year, Quittner found out that McDonald's was one of several big corporations that had not registered their company names as domain names on the Internet (those letters that follow the @ symbol, identifying the sender). After trying in vain to find a company executive who could tell him why, Quittner simply registered the McDonald's name for himself...
...fragile democracy, the coming transition of power is important to the council. If the organization chooses well. Hanselman's accomplishments will not have been in vain. If it chooses badly, this semster's achievements could soon be just a memory...
...vain. Doctors, even wealthy ones, rank well above politicians in public esteem. No one gave a hoot about the kittens, or where Frist would find the spending cuts, as long as he wanted to cut. Sasser lost by 212,843 votes...
...tradition of singing about it. As a defining cultural activity, singing is for the Irish what baseball is for Americans or chess is for the Russians. Ireland's national symbol is a harp, the instrument used to accompany a singer, and the national genius, James Joyce, was probably more vain about his voice than his prose style...