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“Actually, the pursuit of victory works to reduce the chance for excellence in the true performance of the sport. It tends to distract our attention from excellence of performance by rendering it subservient to emerging victorious. I suspect that our conventional mistake of presuming the opposite – ...
... and the cause of a nationwide rabies epidemic, Rant's motive — and very existence — will be questioned throughout the book. It's only towards the end that you find yourself closer to construing his purpose. Twisted would be an understatement to describe Rant but aren't most of Palahniuk's characters complicated and perversed? Apart from the storiesrevolving around Rant, there are also a lot of ...
.... Maybe it wasn’t love at all. “And now?” he asks carefully. He didn’t think this thing he’d requested of Eric would ever make her doubt his want to spend eternity with her. He’d stopped construing the thought of a life without her a long time ago. There was no life without her. Illeana doesn’t answer him. Another two days pass, but she doesn’t despair. She’s not one to panic very ...
...he didn't care what she did, as long as she didn't burn the place down. "You said you had enough space at the mansion, and you'd leave me be." Angelus raised an eyebrow. Her habit of construing his words into a more palatable version was amusing, but… "Translation's off, Buffy. I would never say that." She chuckled. "Worth a try." He smiled back, watching the contents of the box disappear into ...
...represent. The newness of things. God I wish I was a kid again. That's why I like taking showers so much. Hm. Children. Showers. That probably sounds creepy. I mean it could be construed. But then who's construing? I mean if you weren't a twistedsort of individual in the first place, you wouldn't even think about it. So the joke's on you, self. Buy anyway, showers are nice. I hate that there's ...
... to give themselves to him willingly. First was Thanatos who is dead to everything and needs no companion but his sleeping twin. He'd been no challenge and it was almost an irritation to spend timeconstruingthe plan. Eros knows all about siblings, his mother never shuts her legs to anyone, so he knows the way to get to Death is to distract Sleep. Hypnos mesmerized by the beauty of some shepherd...
...a law that would ban the possession of handguns, except by the police and other authorized persons, from 36% against a 60% support in 1939, to 71% against a 28% support in 2009. In construing the essence of statehood as the monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, Max Weber’s definition circumscribes its scope and extent, not to debar other institutions or to individuals from this use, but to ...
..., of course.” Slowly, Severus put down the puppy not-too-gently on the floor and advanced on Harry. “A baby , Potter?” Harry gulped, turned on his heels and bolted, the puppy following suit happily, construing Harry’s movements as a game. He made a mental note that perhaps getting a puppy wasn’t such a good ideaafter all. And perhaps bringing up children a week into their honeymoon wasn’t the ...
... (the difference known in linguistics as "possessor-raising"): Possessor-raising involves a conceptual gestalt shift, in this case between construing a person as a kind ofimmaterial soul who 'possesses' his body parts ('cut Brian's arm'), and construing him as an incarnate hunk that 'is' his body parts ('cut Brian'). With the first construction, one ...
... to be of poor quality. Fake Watch Polo Fashions, 816 F.2d at 148 (citing Lois Sportswear, 799 F.2d at 867). Note that the Polo court used dilution logic. This is not appropriate in construing the limitations of the Lanham Act. Sales Replica Watches See discussion infra notes 422-27 and accompanying text. Polo Fashions was cited by Nabisco Brands v. Conusa Corp., 722 F. Supp. 1287, 1291 (M....
