Word: whilst
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...don’t know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before...
...vast majority of the “have-nots,” like those in non-Arab Africa, East and South Asia, and South America, have no special desire to blow us up), Kilfoyle declares that Europeans “look for a multilateralist approach to these dire challenges, whilst [the American] administration appears set on a unilateral approach...” He doesn’t go on to say exactly why this is a problem, but one guesses he doesn’t mean it as a compliment...
...that political leaders are allowed to trade in this same currency, aided and abetted by the media, albeit in more subtle ways than al Qaeda or Hamas? How is it that an independent voice like Noam Chomsky is denied a platform in his own country, whilst poisonous bile is allowed to demean whole cultures and peoples by default...
This is the crux of the different analyses of Europeans and Americans. Most of the former look for a multilateralist approach to these dire challenges, whilst your administration appears set on a unilateral approach with the useful propaganda addition of Tony Blair. I stress Tony Blair as opposed to the United Kingdom, because, currently, he does not have either his party or his people on board. Europeans have not been encouraged by the present American administration’s retreat from the Kyoto agreement, from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and from open trade. Indeed, the United States is seen...
...have resolutely refused to soften it. Saturday mornings are still spent huddled over my computer screen, “watching” the text updates from the soccer games back in England. Any number of TFs and Crimson proofers still chastise me for using the word “whilst.” I can’t quite bring myself to give up taking notes in fountain pen and I am still tempted to stop and explain the fundamental principles of grammar to anyone who tells me that they’re “doing good...