Once people can stop defining each other by their gender, appearance, ethnicity, or any other uncontrollable quality of ours, and begin to appraise one another based on the substance of our thoughts and merit of our deeds, we'll be on the right track.
Its longevity illustrates the strength and limitations of scientific peer review, the process by which researchers appraise one another's work.
Staged at the Armenian Cultural Foundation's Burbank Youth Center, this longstanding tradition provides an opportunity for various local groups, entities and individuals to enjoy an Armenian feast that was provided by Raffi Market and Sepan Chicken while appraising one another on the work the ANC has done over the past year in regards to youth issues, the arts and civic engagement.
(Something is still in the air. On the dock of a little water cafe, beautiful people lounge on contoured plastic chairs, appraising one another furtively).
Women waltz in and out of the cubicles, adjusting bra straps and appraising one another in the mirrors with the unselfconscious abandon that only exists in all-female environments.
NEW YORK-- When Steve Martin was called onto the "Colbert Report" last December to appraise one of the self-aggrandizing portraits host Stephen Colbert keeps on the set, the comedian and brandy-sipping art connoisseur was not kind.
If you have a house sitting on five acres of land, it can be appraised one way, but another way is to say you can knock down the house and build the Empire State Building there".
The art teacher, Elizabeth Castellano, moved carefully from one table to another, appraising one sixth grader's handling of perspective, assisting another in rendering a charcoal line more sharply, gently suggesting to a third how to capture the bend of the model's elbow with a purposeful smudge.
Too much more moody mountaintop warbling, however, and we should probably look to invoke the wise words of Beavis & Butt-head when appraising one of Morrissey's feyer, desert-based efforts: "Quit whining, go out and get a job … and stay away from those rocks".
To appraise a one-bedroom one-bath co-op on the Upper East Side near Second Avenue, the appraisal firm Miller Samuel initially found 12 similar properties that had sold recently.
They implored him to appraise just one more.
