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It's a perennial pastime, especially around election time, but the world is complex.
Can you imagine that mock execution can be a pastime for guards when they are sadistic or when they are just bored or drunk?
And so many of our institutions, even football, which used to be a pleasant pastime, now causes riots where people even die.
Is playing sports actually as good for us as we make it out to be, or just a fun and entertaining pastime?
India's favorite pastime?
Doomsayers predicted that nobody would touch the game that could be conquered by the machine, and they were wrong, proven wrong, but doomsaying has always been a popular pastime when it comes to technology.
The story starts to weave even further, and we see him in court, being almost universally condemned for his pastime.
but the die is cast and fruit of it all is the new national pastime, skateboarding (the New York Times notes that "it was once considered a snub to authority.
I realize that Hollywood's greatest pastime is navel-gazing, but these people are either too despicable or too boring to take up time with.
This show is a return to family oriented TV where the emphasis is on learning some life lessons, learning what real friends and family are about, and maybe even learning a little bit about our national pastime.
However, it is still a fairly involving movie with an inspirational theme that proves once again that baseball is the national pastime for a reason.
The women were easy and the men indulged in their favorite pastime: war, the only recreation of kings which the people could enjoy."
You might say "Who Loves the Sun" is a perfect leisurely pastime of a story, why ever not.
Watching those shiny little cars race down the racetrack at full speed sure is exciting, and is an edge-of-the-seat pastime activity, because it sure gets your adrenaline going.And it's also nice to see every single tiny space of the seating capacity packed 'till there's no seats for more people is nice, because it's interesting to see how many people would have spent hard earned cash to see this big event.
The sex scenes, done in the style of the drawings one finds around urinals, are enough to turn you off that pastime.
This film captures the spirit of America's official pastime, baseball and America's real pastime, romance and combines the two in a seamless, engaging and heartfelt manner.
Could have been a great period piece about the times and America's early infatuation with the pastime.
Without meat and sex, there's plenty of time for Dr. Kellogg's favorite pastime, enemas, with the occasional yogurt enema thrown in for good measure.
Then there is the exploitation of minors film struggling to get out, with the clever subplot of the child's OTHER pastime, the community play - but this is hardly ever touched upon; it should be the main focus of the film, really.
Using the life of Mark 'Gator' Ragowski as the thread, director Helen Stickler tracks the rise of skateboarding from underground pastime to cultural phenomenon.
Tourism, in particular – cruises as well as more adventurous trips – has become a favorite pastime for the elderly.
Even John Rawls's seminal "Theory of Justice" remained a pastime for the few rather than a precept for the many.
In Europe, navel-gazing remains leaders’ favorite pastime.
Central Bank watchers everywhere have a new pastime: comparing the behavior of America's Federal Reserve (Fed) with that of the European Central Bank (ECB).
There, private economists are back enjoying their favorite pastime during periods of economic stress, namely trying to construct their own indices for GDP growth as at such times they do not believe the official statistics.
But the partnership between a beloved American pastime and the biofuel lobby also marks the latest attempt to sway public opinion in favor of a truly irresponsible policy.
For Greeks, Italians, and many French, evading taxes is a kind of national pastime, which some even perceive as a moral duty.
Megafirms also indulged in another favorite pastime: usurping markets, buying politicians, and capturing regulators – in short, poisoning liberal democracy.
Damming the Mekong Basin to Environmental HellBANGKOK – Major dam construction projects have become a favorite pastime of some autocratic governments, with China leading the way.
Democratic Lessons from the EUWARSAW – Criticizing European Union institutions, and demanding that they be reformed, is a popular pastime.