Word: plural
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...environment, health care and education; and third ... well, his third point turned out to be about the "epic struggle" of his presidency. For the rest of Bill's 20-minute speech, his wife merited an individual mention only here and there. Everything else was framed in the first-person-plural we. Not that the crowd seemed to mind, judging from the deafening applause...
...from hunting to setting aside natural areas for protection. The Commission’s Chairman is Joe Melton, a man from Yuma with a deep drawl who (if his dialect at the meeting is representative of habit) seems to be under the impression that first-, second-, and third-person plural of the verb “to be” are “we is,” “you all is,” and “they is,” respectively. As my mother whispered, “Now that is a real...
...bullfighting fraternity cares. Like the NBA in the U.S, bullfighting is a world of its own, in which racial and ethnic barriers dissolve in the face of talent. Once a near sacred practice in the Catholic, ethnically homogenous world of Old Spain, bullfighting is still revered in today's plural society. Savalli could be a poster boy for that pluralism, for rather than challenge Spain's grand bullfighting traditions, he seems to immerse himself in them. Savalli was 7 years old and "afraid of even cows then," as he admits, when he met his destiny, attending an encierro (running...
...setup will unsettle some viewers, as it did the actresses. "It felt like we were shooting a period piece," says Tripplehorn, "like something out of the '50s." Yet each woman has thought-out reasons why polygamy works for her, and their partnership combines traditional religion with countercultural idealism about plural marriage. The wives are, literally, married to one another--"not in a sexual way, which will disappoint a lot of our male viewers," says Goodwin...
...Indonesian intellectual who became known as the conscience of his nation for persistently advocating a moderate form of Islam and insisting that his mostly Muslim country remain secular; of liver and kidney failure; in Jakarta. The author of several books, including the popular Doors to God (he emphasized the plural), he is credited with persuading hard-line President Suharto to step down...