Word: acceptant
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Gesturing widely with her arms, Silbert said, “I’m thrilled. And I think I can allow myself to be that level of thrilled because, truthfully, I don’t accept this for myself. I’m accepting an award for the people who are considered the losers of society...
Perhaps there is no greater development that can be credited to the sexual revolution of the 1960’s than the near-universal acceptance of the fact that consenting adults have the right to define love and relationships on their own terms. More recently, the move for gay rights has demanded that the public accept and acknowledge that some of those relationships are not always traditional, but are as genuine, sincere and legitimate as any other. But in the push for gay marriages and civil unions, one group of people who exhibit true love for one another has been...
...seems that Boston has at last learned to accept the old cliché that good pitching really does beat good hitting. For too many years the Sox squandered money on overpriced position players—Mike Lansing, anyone?—and didn’t provide Pedro Martinez with adequate support. Now it seems that Red Sox brass have at last learned to copy the Yankees’ winning formula—pitching pitching pitching. (Indeed it was only through adhering to that very doctrine that Arizona, led by Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson, were able to take down...
...time for our leaders and our media to stop blaming Arafat for everything that is wrong in the Middle East and to accept the bitter truth, as difficult as that may be for some of us. By refusing to acknowledge the realities of Ariel Sharon’s gruesome colonial war, we are complicit in these crimes. Our nation must stop turning the other way every time our friends in the Middle East dehumanize, maim, or murder their Palestinian neighbors. Even friends need to know when to draw the line...
...must reassess its methods of energy production for the 21st century. People in any region of the country should be willing to accept nuclear waste in their own backyard so that America can be secure in its energy needs and protect the environment