Word: unyieldingness
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Troubles did not end with race. As Shaw notes, "All God's dangers ain't a white man." There was also the unyielding soil and unpredictable weather, the boll weevil, illness and wild fluctuations in the all-important price of cotton. "It's a market price," Shaw...
Kinue's madness, and her assumed beauty, are equated with Toru's self-awareness and Honda's perception of unyielding fate. "Don't you suppose a beautiful, well-shaped girl has the best chance of becoming an angel?" she asks Toru. "Only a beautiful woman can really know..."
Perhaps Senator Jackson revels at the prospect of a new Soviet belt tightening and a return to the good old days when two hostile, unyielding, nuclear-armed monsters crawled steadily toward a final terrible resolution of differences. I, for one, do not.
At this point many people would reject the movie as another element in a familiar series of unyielding exhortations by doctrinaire Marxists. That the film is more than mere polemics, however, is apparent from the opening scene, in which we are confronted by a slow-motion close-up of a...
The first thing Leonard did after he discovered he had 15 days to resolve Harvard's affirmative-action problem, he recalls three years later, was to get a cab and take a ride down to HEW's Boston Office of Civil Rights. "They were polite and they were kind," Leonard...