Word: phrasing
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...even make gender an issue. Instead, the narrators aid to the ensemble nature of the play, most evident in its closing minutes. A throbbing heartbeat, a single spot and green sidelights illuminate Wilde as he grovels for mercy though he has done nothing wrong. The full cast, a phrase at a time, relates Wilde's The Balland of Reading Gaol, a story of one whose heart was pure but who suffered at the hands of a judging society, rendering the play profound and Wilde's larger-than-life image even stronger than before...
...interpreters wondered about the phrase "Let there be light" on the first day because the sun was not created until the fourth day. They thought that perhaps the first light mentioned was a special light for God's usage, which God later put aside...
Then there are times when the digital divide looks unfathomably deep. The phrase has become mired in the blurry realm of cliche, applied variously to women, the disabled, seniors, ethnic minorities, rural and inner-city populations. But the underlying threat is real. Technology has moved so fast that a new upper class--composed largely of the same white, affluent, college-educated males that made up the old upper class--has spurted ahead of the rest of society, mostly because they have the time and money necessary to acquire and understand the tools of the digital revolution...
...question is one of normalcy (to borrow a phrase from the Harding administration). I would hold that our concept of normalcy in behavior and emotional well-being is narrowing, making the once merely overly rambunctious dog (or child) now a victim of an unfortunate psychological disease. To bring these unfortunate souls into the envelope of normalcy again, all that is needed is a little green meanie. But this sort of socially constructed and varying conception of normalcy brings up legitimate ethical problems...
...only fair to ask why, if Gore were so vastly superior a candidate, the sniveling public-interest groups didn't do a better job of getting their constituents off the davenport to go vote for him. Election calculus is fuzzy math, to borrow a phrase, but it is possible, as Nader suggests, that fear of his threat to Gore actually got more people out to vote for the Vice President than otherwise would have. And Nader volunteer James Williamson, 49, of Cambridge, Mass., says he is offended by the suggestion that his vote for Nader should have been traded...