Word: veined
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...same vein: “I got the sense that she was trying really hard. Maybe too hard...
...Take professional wrestling, for instance.” I could have stopped, but I continued on, in a potentially incriminating vein. “While one viewer might watch WWE and see nothing more than a bunch of steroid-addled actors with gender issues, another person could witness the spectacle and see a modern-day burlesque. There’s melodrama, slapstick humor, sexual ambiguity…frankly, Commedia dell’Arte incorporates most of the same elements...
...devoted to exploring a wide array of gender, cultural, and racial issues has partially undermined the stereotype that Harvard caters only to elite white males. While the forthcoming women’s center is certainly one more step in this right direction, Harvard must continue pressing forward in this vein and create a multicultural center...
...fact that historical inequities cannot be separated from present-day circumstances; that all of our histories are intertwined in Ghana—the British, the Ashanti, the Dutch, the Fante; that while they may face some unexpected questions, they will not allow themselves to fall into the exact same vein of ignorance as their inquisitors...
...poor the way people in Africa are. They have their gardens and the river, but they do not have cash." Exploiting this cash vacuum are some unscrupulous artifact dealers who travel up and down the river, taking advantage of its people's poverty to mine a rich vein of cultural treasure...