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We live in a society bloated with data, yet starved for wisdom.
So the for-profit sector can pay people profits in order to attract their capital for their new ideas, but you can't pay profits in a nonprofit sector, so the for-profit sector has a lock on the multi-trillion-dollar capital markets, and the nonprofit sector is starved for growth and risk and idea capital.
They tied her up in a basement and starved her.
Afraid of being eaten, or just to avoid further suffering, they committed suicide or starved themselves, believing that in death, their souls would return home.
The film has adolescents (actually actors in their 20s) being beaten, tortured, killed, starved, attacked with meat cleavers, raped etc etc.
If the farmers in Ireland could only harvest during long dry stretches then the country would have starved hundreds of years ago.
Herzog tries to answer these questions in his documentary of Dieter Dengler, German emigre and U.S. Navy pilot shot down over Laos in 1966, who was taken prisoner, tortured and starved, but ultimately escaped to be haunted by the experience for the rest of his life.
"Fires on the Plain" shows a different reality: troops pathetically undersupplied, demoralized and starved to the point of cannibalism.
Unfortunately, Barbara Hershey,(Susan Burgade),"The Portrait of a Lady",'96, managed to get caught up in this situation and found herself among sex starved men who never seemed to leave her alone.
The looks he gives her as if he has been starved for the sight of her as well as her hesitation and confusion as too her feelings for him were played very well.
She goes to live with a sex starved female and they soon kick up a relationship; but then the nightmare rapist manifests himself and a strange love triangle develops.
He is furious to see that they have no food and the sons are nearly starved to death.
Good show about a river boat plying it's way from town to town in the old south giving song and dance performances to the entertainment starved locals.
The movie gives no reasons for the aunts twisted behaviour nor does it explain why a neighbourhood full of children who visit the house whilst this poor girl is strung up, raped, beaten, genitally mutilated, and starved, say nothing at all despite the story being set in a 1950's world where such events were not heard of even in the movies.
For example, the bit about the loved starved gorilla was painful to watch.
This process has been around since the 1920s and has been exploited by oil starved nations such as Germany and Japan during the second world war, and by South Africa during Apartheid and after.
He uses exactly the same tools as used by most males to get rich quickly : make an attractive Lady dress p scantily and seduce some sex starved / rich idiot/ any male basically.
Extremely few comedians are successful, even fewer for more than a year or two and the majority of those few that are still working the large venues, who prove themselves to be other than just some flash-in-the-pan dressed up in an ill-fitting suit of success by an aggressive publicity team and a gullible, entertainment starved audience; usually build their careers on one or two jokes that they've turned into their shtick: they have a quirky personality that is charming or, at least, familiar.
We were starved for entertainment.
She and several of the supporting actors must have starved themselves to look so skinny and forlorn.
The girls get an outside assignment taking care of some little girls who are slowly being starved to death for insurance money by "Nick", (Clark Gable!) Lora stands up to Nick as only Barbara Stanwyck can when she's steaming mad.
Although the title references a meal, Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds leaves the viewer starved for something resembling entertainment.
It looks beautiful, sounds beautiful but we must all be really starved of good film-making if this movie gets people waxing lyrical.
Starved of resources and teachers, the system atrophied.
When those countries’ per capita GDP stood at current Chinese levels, real estate played only a minor role in their economies; indeed, the sector was often deliberately starved of credit.
Universities in Gaza are overcrowded and starved for supplies.
Some are being starved into submission, while others are being subjected to unspeakable atrocities.
But if foreign-aid budgets are cut, and financing mechanisms as effective and innovative as the Global Fund are starved of resources, the “1%” will have much more to worry about than the Occupy movement.
Twenty years of the most advanced thinking for mathematical algorithms came from a Soviet empire starved of computing power.
This trend began in the late 1980s, with PhDs and researchers who could not find a place at local universities, which are hierarchically controlled, prone to corruption, and starved of funding.
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