Word: vigor
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...purported to give. Trainspotting's startling ability to combine black humor, wit, romance, violence and pathos in a story about Scottish heroin addicts marked it as one of the best films of the year, if not the decade. The team embraced their incredibly risky subject matter with energy and vigor, and managed to make commercially palatable a screenplay that Hollywood execs would have (and did) run from screaming...
...some Presidents struggle to keep their physical frailties secret. Eisenhower called his first heart attack digestive upset. Kennedy played touch football with over-compensating vigor rather than give a hint of his Addison's disease. Bush got no sympathy for throwing up in Japan and no understanding when an aide blamed thyroid medicine for his cluelessness during the '92 campaign. Dole's remarking that "Some of the things that we read about don't return as quickly as advertised" after prostate surgery just reminded...
...controls. Explaining the government's sudden tolerance for newspaper and magazine articles challenging Beijing's policies, Liu Ji, a close Jiang adviser, says, "People want to air their opinions, as they are now well fed and better clothed and better educated. It is a sign of the nation's vigor and prosperity...
...search for Harvard's first-ever chair of Holocaust studies drags on, the field is being pursued with vigor this semester in the German department...
...bottom line is that the campaign is a misfire, full of mixed messages. The last line of the essay in TV Guide, just after the celebration of cerebral-free non-activity, asks the reader to "climb the highest figurative mountaintop and proclaim, with all the vigor and shrillness that made Roseanne a household name, that TV is good." But "Roseanne," an ABC success that ended its run last season, always required a cerebrum for optimum enjoyment...