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I support gay and independent cinema, but not at the
expense
of credibility.
Better Midler gives a smashing, touching, tear-the-house-down dynamic and exhilarating Oscar-nominated performance as the Rose, a fabulously wealthy and successful popular rock superstar sensation who's been burnt-out and worn down by too much long hard time on the road, too much booze and drugs (Rose likes to swig Southern Comfort straight from the bottle while performing live on stage), too many cameras in her face and too much time spent recording songs in the studio at the
expense
of having a meaningful and fulfilling personal life, all of which leaves Rose feeling terribly lonely, unhappy and unloved.
The film features four extended exotic dance numbers, with lovely music by Victor Young, rousing direction by action-film veteran Ted Tetzlaff, and a surprising number of interesting dialogue-rich scenes, some lovely outdoor scenery and some tongue-in-cheek humor at the Sultan's
expense.
When MGM acquired the rights to Show Boat for the Arthur Freed unit, no
expense
was spared in making this one of the most expensive films the studio had ever produced.
Indeed, 25 years of reforms have changed nothing of China's "one country with two systems" - a model that segregates China's urban centers from its agricultural areas, with development of the former realized at the
expense
of the latter.
And if an official meets mostly with lobbyists, at the
expense
of other types of meetings, voters can make judgments about that, too.
This should not come at the
expense
of similar links with others, such as China and India, but these ties must not be acquired at the price of isolating Japan.
European leaders’ continued focus on the long run at the
expense
of short-term imperatives may indeed be the death knell for their single currency.
Interest rate increases will deliver a fresh dose of reality: the interest
expense
of owning a home is going to claim a larger share of family budgets, a hard fact that will eventually sink into our thinking.
There is a perennial temptation to focus on – even to overemphasize – the short-term, tactical drivers of commodity-price movements, at the
expense
of giving longer-term, structural factors their due.
As the late economist and European central banker Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa once put it, Thatcher “shifted the line dividing markets from government, enlarging the territory of the former at the
expense
of the latter.”
They pay for the expensive campaigns of presidents and congressmen, so presidents and congressmen help the rich – often at the
expense
of the rest of society.
(This is perhaps the first indication that self-sacrifice may be an intrinsic human trait!)Damaged by the sun, but not quite able to commit suicide, the mutated cell continues to proliferate at the
expense
of normal surrounding cells, resulting in a pre-cancerous growth that can progress to a full-blown squamous cell carcinoma.
Bhutto, the leader of a secular party that now enjoys substantial support in Washington, would dominate policy planning in the next government at Musharraf’s
expense.
When things start to go wrong, the only way forward is at the
expense
of others.
From the Serbs’ perspective, attacks by Albanian nationalists were more likely the beginning of an attempt to enlarge their territory at the
expense
of their Christian neighbors, beginning with the weakest.
That approach means that countries are not fighting for a bigger piece of the pie at the
expense
of others.
To its difficulty and unpopularity another drawback to nation-building must now be added: its
expense.
The fossil-fuel industry’s success in safeguarding its own interests has come at the
expense
of the health of our planet and its people.
They overwhelmingly believe that Germany will not benefit economically, that lower-skill workers’ wages will suffer, that large corporations will gain power at the
expense
of consumers, that data and environmental protection will be compromised, and that citizens’ rights will be undermined.
High levels of emotional arousal often result in the victim’s attention being drawn to the central features of the event at the
expense
of other features.
Trump is likely to focus overwhelmingly on domestic issues, at the
expense
of America’s strategic interests abroad.
Should Europeans have accused the US of “manipulating” the exchange rate to expand exports at its
expense?
But global growth is largely unchanged – the distributive effects actually impede it slightly – as one gains at the
expense
of the other.
But cultures that tend to resent the economically successful – either as an affront to equality, or on the implicit assumption that the economic gains of some must be at the
expense
of others – tend to be more hostile toward Jews and given to conspiratorial theories to explain their economic success.
What leaders like Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, and George Washington understood was that this structure rewarded parochialism and provincialism at the
expense
of the “national interest” – the shared interests of the union’s member states.
But it has lost its halo as a voice for the oppressed and downtrodden, and has exposed itself as a partisan and sectarian party that will side with Iran and its allies even at the
expense
of human rights and human lives in neighboring Syria.
Thus, both growth and employment came at the
expense
of the tradable side of the economy.
Rather than coming at the
expense
of the US, as is constantly claimed, it was the renminbi’s low valuation that allowed Americans to dream their American dream of universal homeownership.
Lacking unified leadership, Libyans reverted to tribal and regional allegiances, at the
expense
of a shared national identity.
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