It's their matter-of-fact quality that allows a level of acceptance to slip almost unnoticed through the side door.
In this, the play's emotional highlight, Damon's veneer of dogged acceptance briefly slips to reveal the still naturally responsive heart underneath.
So it's not clear why Ms. Pope-Blackman finally lets Mr. Steffensen wear her slip, a symbol of acceptance, or why Grandma offers him the vintage bathing suit that he shocked everyone by donning near the start.
There was an acceptance from the players that standards had slipped in the opening period here, with Basel opening the scoring to level the tie on the stroke of half-time.
To see how this disparity happens, look over the shoulder of Julie Wickstrom, associate director of financial aid, sitting at her desk on a March afternoon just days before financial aid awards and acceptances are to be slipped into scarlet B.U. folders — the "fat envelopes" — and mailed out.
But… if your grades slip enough, colleges can (& will) rescind your acceptance.
She received "beautiful" rejection slips along with praise and suggestions, she said, but nary an acceptance.
Syngenta has shifted some of its focus to industrial applications of GM plants, such as producing pharmaceuticals, that might gain easier acceptance in Europe than GM foods.This tolerance will quickly evaporate, however, if one slips into the human food supply.
In another acceptance speech Stephen Jardine, who picked up the best regional presenter award for his Scottish TV work, let slip that he learnt all he knows on that renowned presenting school of hard knocks, the GMTV couch.
"Aren't you?" Standing on a bed in a slip, arms akimbo, body swaying in unsteadiness and insinuating confidence, Ms. Colin summons an entire life of triumph, defeat and acceptance in those two simple sentences.
