Word: weak
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...things”—social pressure is not the same as necessity. Almost all students have a large degree of choice over their adherence to gender stereotypes. Stifling personal tastes and instincts for the sake of fitting one’s gender is not only weak, it smothers social change before society is even able to recognize its problems. Those individuals who pretend such norms don’t and never will affect them are either unimaginably lucky or blind...
...computer-generated modeling of Harold’s thoughts, but this technique, too, is used so rarely as to become superfluous. There’s so much cool but pointless visual trickery in this film that one begins to suspect Forster is attempting to distract you from the thin, weak narrative. The trick backfires, however, as the film never quite coheres, due in large part to its unjustified cinematic bells and whistles. The truly endearing quirks are the more organic ones, like Dustin Hoffman’s constant barefootedness, or Thompson’s enchantingly disgusting way of putting...
...about a boy at his bar mitzvah, and his whole family and everyone is there, and he drops the Torah. It begins there and takes place during the 24-hour period right after that. I wrote the screenplay during the night when I was fasting, so I was weak and kind of in a crazy mode, and I wrote the whole screenplay that night. The 85-year old grandmother who’s hypoglycemic has to fast, his whole family who has flown in for his bar mitzvah has to fast, it’s basically the worst period...
...conversational tone and juvenile literary devices would be appealing to your younger siblings as well. For example, I am still wondering why it was necessary to personify the body’s immune system as “Bob”: “If Bob is weak, you are ill more often, more seriously, and for more time,” Oz explains...
...truth is our characteristic and so we are. Lying is their characteristic. Iraq's mountains, wildernesses and plains will be our witness We help the weak but when we strike, we strike the elite...