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I show positive or painful relationships, but also the complexity, the beautiful, and the dreadfulness at the same time and that this always applies to female relationships.
"Language is not an instrument for me but existence": interview with Marlene Streeruwitz
As a former defender himself, he must have appreciated the full dreadfulness of that second-half cave-in.
Football: Capitulation confirms scale of year's decline; Everton 0 Bolton 4
9) If these anti-apocalyptic stirrings are indeed rooted in the ability to recognize the "other", in the fullness and dreadfulness and fragility of their humanity, then, as Marc Ellis also prophecies, we may be called to a deeper ecumenism, called to map out the inhabitable terrain of a wider sensibility.
Prolegomenon to a pedestrian cartography of mixed legal jurisdictions: the case of Israel/Palestine
But words that convey the dreadfulness of their sad situation.
Why Huntley must never be released
Their words legitimate the ritualisation of destruction, the exercise of science in its magnificent awfulness, its cataclysmic dreadfulness.
Walking with death, walking with science, walking with living: philosophical praxis and happiness
It may not be the likelihood but the dreadfulness of an event that accounts for statements of worry.
Parental fear of crime: a discursive analysis
In support of that nostalgia, reference is made to the handful of segregated schools that were the clear exceptions to the dreadfulness associated with segregated schools.
The judicial betrayal of blacks - again: the Supreme Court's destruction of the hopes raised by Brown v. Board of Education
Also, psychometric research suggests that each of these food hazards can be differentiated in terms of familiarity and dreadfulness.
The relationship between sociodemographics and concern about food safety issues
Then, with seven minutes remaining, anarchy descended on a game that had been notable only for the dreadfulness of the play.
Football: KEV BOYS TARN-ISH IT; Leicester 1 Man City 1 fuming Michael puts official on the spot All hell breaks loose after City's
It is interesting that the conversation between Anne and the Admiral begins with a touch: he is so absorbed in the picture of the dreadful boat, fascinated, in fact, by its very dreadfulness, that she "might .
"As she was not really Mrs. Croft": playing the Admiral's wife in Bath
The dreadfulness of the situation--in his fine foreword, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen notes that the median age at death in sub-Saharan Africa is under five--can lead even the most committed humanitarian to despair.
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
For the sheer awesome dreadfulness of much government schooling in the United States is its own time-bomb, which will continue to tick away relentlessly even if--per impossibile--every other threat to America's social fabric were to cease.
The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education

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