Word: vaines
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...there have been 112 people put to death so far, while he maintains that I reside in his heart. Did not a woman beg for her life and he refused her? I say to you there will be chastisement for using the name of Christ in vain. My position is to listen to the groaning of the prisoners, to release those doomed to death...
...acts of malefaction-an Iago, or a Lady Macbeth, or a Richard III. And the surprise is, Fred just seems pathetic, self-deceived, ordinary. Is he truly monstrous, is he hiding something? Does he know full well what he's doing? Or is he a kind of self-deceived, vain, in many ways self-satisfied, moral fool...
...Hatsue's mother (Ako) and many of the other Japanese. When Ishmael's father (Sam Shepard) prints an editorial denouncing the internment camps, virtually the entire white community turns against him in a fury of anti-Japanese sentiment. And, in the midst of the hatred, Ishmael hopes in vain that his relationship with Hatsue will survive...
...spite of their shatterproof belief that Rachel did not die in vain, the last eight months have been difficult for the Scott family. Craig Scott, Rachel's 16-year-old brother, who was kneeling next to Isaiah Shoels and Matt Kechter when they were shot to death in the library, has had the hardest time. Though he has on occasion spoken to groups with Darrell, he refuses to return to Columbine High and is being schooled by a county home-tutoring program. "Some days he can't get out of bed," says his mother Beth...
...have a lower-than-normal amount of the chemical dopamine, which is associated with concentration and motivation. ADHD children, says the report, have an average of 70 percent more dopamine transporters in their brains than other children - evidence, researchers think, that these brains developed the extra transporters in a vain effort to compensate for a lack of dopamine. Couple that finding with a report earlier this week from National Institute of Mental Health that said the disorder is most effectively treated with medications, such as Ritalin, and you have an emerging consensus that ADHD is a real physical disorder...