Word: waywards
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...9/11 scheme nearly foundered several times over the terrorists' personal tribulations. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the plot's mastermind, became enraged when one hijacker-in-waiting flew home to Yemen after the birth of a child. Mohammed wanted him dropped from the operation, but bin Laden refused. When the wayward Nawaq Alhazmi grew lonely waiting for orders in San Diego, Mohammed allowed him to search for a wife on the Internet. Another hijacker, Ziad Samir Jarrah, left the U.S. as many as five times to visit his girlfriend in Germany in the year before 9/11. He even sent her a last...
Arguments still rage as to which group of humans (everyone? Christians? the elect?) the sacrifice benefits and about whether our sins somehow retroactively exacerbate the agony of Christ's sacrifice. But no other postbiblical formulation has so elegantly intertwined the Father, the Son, wayward creation and intimations of sin and grace. None has so bound believer to Saviour in the intimacy of pain (and eventual Easter glory) and fulfilled Paul's great work of turning the Cross, an image of ultimate horror, into the paramount Western icon of love...
...inherently nerve-racking nature of playoff hockey, where wayward puck bounces end careers, this Crimson team remained unfazed and unwavering in confronting its demons...
...procedure is not a cure but a disease: Alzheimer's, in which memories are erased in reverse order until only the earliest are retained. And yet as laid out with such elliptical care by Kaufman and Gondry and played by Carrey and Winslet with fiendish devotion to their wayward characters, it's a horror movie that dares to hope--to hope even for the worst, since the thorniest love makes us feel most alive, even in our misery...
...first came at 12:31 of the first period, when Mudryk took a pass from Joe Bauer and led his linemates on a 3-on-2 convoy before beating Dov Grumet-Morris low to his glove side. Mudryk struck again midway through the second, pouncing on a wayward rebound of Paul Crosty’s point shot...