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Although Chaucer and Boccaccio together with many successors dealt with literary interpretations of life in urban settings involving strangers meeting in public places, Vicki Baum was among the first to bring this genre into the twentieth century world of movies and popular fiction.
There is a group called the strangers who have an ability to physically change surroundings of them and the people living in the city, they call this ability "tuning".
On a dark and stormy night 11 strangers have to take refuge in an isolated motel when a rainstorm turns into a monsoon.
Being in Australia (so far from most things of good taste), I was overjoyed and shocked to see the Strangers movie at the local DVD store.
All women preformed satanic rituals and wild orgies with strangers, who later vanished in a mysterious circumstances.
Despite presenting a situation that normally in any spectacle would become tedious, pointless, and plain claustrophobic - two strangers having sex and talking for just one night in a cheap motel room - "En la cama" succeeds for its authenticity and no holds barred approach, shining a light into two different individuals and the dynamics of men and women.
Perhaps these three strangers in this story, whose lives have really nothing to do with each other, would never have met except for a very ancient idol: the Chinese goddess, Kwan Yin.
Now mind you, I'm not in the market to have an abortion but I'm not sure that a bunch of strangers should be regulating what I do with my body.
Just as parents are expected to provide for the interests of their own children, rather than for the interests of strangers, in accepting the office of president of the United States, George W. Bush assumed a specific role that makes it his duty to protect and further the interests of Americans.
I spent hours picking through sources – mostly dusty papers in the years before the Internet, or strangers on the telephone – to clarify questions of fact: Was this really the first such product?
Though US-China relations are highly complex, playing out according to a dynamic often characterized by competition and sometimes even confrontation, the two sides are no strangers to cooperation on matters of mutual self-interest – matters like curbing North Korea’s nuclear program.
Ordinary Japanese say sumimasen countless times each day, to apologize to friends or strangers for even the most trivial accident or mistake.
Companies seem to have become fishbowls, their contents visible to customers and strangers alike.
In New York City, freedom means not having to fear that the thousands of strangers sharing the city’s sidewalks and parks with you on any given day are carrying deadly weapons.
She agreed, joining an increasing number of people who donate their kidneys to strangers.
The answer may be that we, too, feel that we ought to live much more ethically, and the people described in Strangers Drowning are a standing reproach to our own way of life.
South Africans are no strangers to health-care meddling by the US; we have lived with the global gag rule before.
While governments and central banks race frantically to find a solution, there is a profound psychological dynamic at work that stands in the way of an orderly debt workout: our aversion to recognizing obligations to strangers.
On the other hand, however, Chinese companies in general are newcomers to the market economy and remain in many ways strangers to the rules and norms of international business.
Christians and Jews in this camp stress that welcoming strangers and people in need lies at the very heart of their respective faiths.
And women on the street protest the violence inflicted on them by strangers, neighbors, and acquaintances – and confront the police and officials who condone it.
The Beauty in Ugly ElectionsElections in countries that have been strangers to democracy are never pretty, as Afghanistan's recent vote demonstrated and as any election in Iraq is likely to be.
He did not, of course, offer any similarly vivid portrayals of undocumented immigrants who have saved the lives of strangers, although such cases have been reported.
Singer has also trained non-meditators to engage in compassion meditation, by thinking kindly about a series of persons, starting with someone close to the meditator and then moving outward to strangers.
People relate much more readily to a friend dying of cancer than they do to statistics about strangers suffering from the consequences of testing.
This may mean dying in childbirth rather than risking the “dishonor” of giving birth in a public place, a hospital, in front of strangers.
Yet US politicians continue to deflect the electorate’s anger outward, dismissing the growth subsidy that accompanies the “kindness of strangers.”
The Chinese are no strangers to Rwanda.
Local governments worry about how far from the coast new residential areas should be built, amplifying concerns about the future for people who are being forced to live with strangers in temporary housing in an unfamiliar area.
In fact, humans are often driven to help those in need, even complete strangers, by feelings of empathy and compassion.
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