Word: conceits
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...freshmanic. In his Indo-American accent, Pitka asks Darren, "What is it you cahn't face?" (cahn't rhyming with hunt - your kids will explain the joke to you). And even at 80 minutes or so, The Love Guru is overly long and repetitious, unable to sustain its comic conceit...
...would be wise for Obama to grant her that conceit, up to a point. She, more than he, has the power to unite or destroy the party. The question for Clinton is, How does she go about cashing in her chips? By forcing a tough, immediate negotiation with Obama over the vice presidency and other issues or by making an immediate show of her desire to strengthen Obama for the coming fray? A number of Clinton's top advisers, especially in the finance and policy realms, thought Clinton's best course of action was to make herself immediately indispensable: offer...
...eyes of his child narrator, Djata, who is constantly attempting to come to terms with the world. Dragomán is able to bring the reader along on Djata’s journey and create a deeper understanding of Djata’s world. Though not necessarily an original conceit, it is a well executed examination of one boy’s life in a repressive unnamed country. Dragomán presents the reader with a world in which Djata’s father is taken away without notice, his house is entered without a warrant, his friend breaks...
...says, how far can we take this conceit anyway before it becomes meaningless? She suggested "a list of stuff half black people half like...
...about the blessing and curse of being an artist - you have this special gift, but on the other hand you're never satisfied. The only time I have respite is when something is so great, and seems so perfect that I can't possibly, in any part of my conceit, think that I could improve upon...