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But that strategy seldom takes you very far.
Here is an example from an op-ed on Thanksgiving, in the Boston Globe a couple of years ago, where the writer wrote, "The Indian life was a difficult one, but there were no employment problems, community harmony was strong, substance abuse unknown, crime nearly non-existent, what warfare there was between tribes was largely ritualistic and seldom resulted in indiscriminate or wholesale slaughter."
But such a teacher is seldom found.
It is seldom, if ever, extended to equally important arguments around the fragility of our present system of government, to the notion that honesty, accuracy and impartiality are fundamental to the process of building and embedding an informed, participatory democracy.
Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
So throughout my life, I've seen women — family, friends, colleagues — live through these experiences, and they seldom talk about it.
Even today, when people come out of the forest, the story seldom has a happy ending.
For example, I seldom get bitten by mosquitos, but my partner Amanda attracts them in droves, and the reason why is that we have different microbes on our skin that produce different chemicals that the mosquitos detect.
This step, for the anti-hero, is seldom a matter of brave, wise and heroic opposition.
However, because their "real" parents aren't rich and, I argue, because they are mostly of color, they will seldom get to see in themselves the awesomeness that I see in them.
In Argentina, there's a program where we connect students who are in rural, remote, hard to reach mountainous communities, with something they've seldom seen: a secondary school teacher.
So we really motivate the dog to want to do it, such that the need for punishment seldom comes up.
And it's just fiction, it's just stories, and we'd worry a lot less about what other people think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
And so the Fates are seldom wrong, no matter how they twist and wind.
Clouds seldom visit this area.
Now, as humans, we make maps of places that we seldom even go, which seems a little wasteful of time.
Infamous horror films seldom measure up the hype that surrounds them and I have yet to come across a worse offender than Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes.
Quite naturally, in the "real world" this type of revenge seldom relieves the tension because life is not a movie; after the revenge is enacted the actions taken have their own consequences.
Seldom have I felt so little attachment to characters.
Seldom have I been made to cringe by such dire dialogue.
Tactics is seldom used, and NEVER do they act like a boxer.
Seldom do I watch a movie that makes my adrenaline pump from irritation, in fact the only other movie that immediately springs to mind is another "people in an aircraft in trouble" movie (Airspeed).
Very seldom do I turn off a movie after only a quarter of the way through.
I haven't seen it since its original release but I have seldom spent two hours in a theater feeling as miserable and disappointed as I was with this film.
Most of the films I really like are art-house fare and seldom appear on the box-office top-ten lists.
I am seldom motivated to write a review unless inspired by the quality of the movie.
I have seldom been so disappointed by a film.
A feminist tract in which if you the viewer believe that: i) wild animals are seldom tamed by singing but instead attack, kill and eat (the line that grizzlies never attack unless provoked was a hoot - unless "provoked" means that it sees flesh); ii) homosexuality is both immoral per se -- and its acceptance almost always associated throughout history with signs of a society's dissolution and decay iii) few women are bisexual (in this one, virtually every woman is presented as having no preference for men or women) iv) divorce is far worse than infidelity v) land is there for human beings to use, develop and enjoy vi) it is as incumbent upon a mother of an adult son to keep in touch as it is upon the son vii) a mother raising her son alone is an unfortunate and real tragedy for the child viii) the idolization of a parent for worthwhile ideals is a good and healthy thing ix) adults continue to bear a responsibility for their sexual behavior, no matter their age, and the duty to engage in this most intimate and giving of acts only within the most intimate and openly sacrificial of relationships: marriage -- believe me, you are NOT going to like this film!
Alas, very seldom these attempts succeed.
I'm seldom partial to movies about smart-assed teenagers who have problems with authority, but "Toy Soldiers" has grown on me with repeated viewings.
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