Word: constant
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...glad they're gone, but I enjoyed having them here," Butler said. "I like my independence, and there had been a constant nagging when my parents were here. They overheard a conversation I was having about grades, and they gave me the same speeches they did when I was in high school...
Dealing with the disturbances requires of our soldiers great professionalism and constant weighing of personal values. On the surface it looks like the confrontation between the soldier with his weaponry and the Palestinian youth who is throwing stones is in favor of the army. The dilemma for the soldier is between the orders he received, whose main principles are restraint and humanity, and the feeling of fear as a result of the thousands of rioters who are throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at him. All the while the soldier must keep his cool and see before him his values...
...inner development of a person in the throes of madness, a development that to an outside observer may simply appear a continuous and unchanging stream of irrational behavior. Second, it creates a type of dramatic development in the audience itself. Even if the condition of the central character remains constant, the way in which that condition is viewed can be manipulated and changed by the author or director so as to bring the audience from one point of knowledge about the character to another. And just as on a train it's impossible to tell if you are moving forward...
...follow you to the very brink of madnessand follow you with great interest if your name is Hamlet or King Lear. But they cannot cross that threshold with you; they can only watch the play develop around you once you have become little more than a set piece, a constant force of irrationality. There is a reason that the conflicts of government play a larger role in the second part of Bennett's play than the first. And, more to the point, there is a reason Robertson's play ends with Mary declaring herself insane. From that point on, there...
...another's sound. At one especially triumphant arrival, the passionate Meneses had his eyebrows furrowed painfully as Pressler perhaps unconsciously began to sing at the piano. In the third movement, Pressler showed again the flair of a seasoned performer as he maintained a strong rhythm and constant tempo that kept the anxious intensity. Kim was the great showman in the playful fourth movement. His energy propelled not only his bowstrokes, but also his limbs; indeed, at times he seemed to be lifted from his seat...