At first she seems reluctant to talk about her background, sensing possibly that the very word "Iraqi" evokes peasants or cartoon villains even in sophisticated western minds.
We can make reportable judgements about whether we did something ('I moved my arm' vs. 'My arm was moved') and in a more real-world context, we possess a background subjective sense of control over our actions – a sense of agency [ 12].
But a Chechen background makes sense to explain Adam's tenacity; there is nothing like decades of Soviet rule and invasion by Russian troops to sharpen one's sense of vengeance and mistrust.
And going further, a hospice can consider race as one of many factors -- age, experience, geographic background, temperament, sense of humor -- when deciding which aide would be a great match for a particular patient.
The princelings, who are led by Xi and dominate the Politburo Standing Committee, may differ greatly from Bo in terms of personality, but they empathize with him through their shared political background and sense of "red nobility" entitlement to run the country.
The difficulties of the raw ingredients all the expenses involved with using people as the basic, es sential material as well as the creative artist's problem of acquiring, the background and sense of perspective nec essary for a creative educa tion are all but insuperable.
11) has drawn a superb psychological portrait of Rick Ankiel Jr. Jordan gives us enough of Ankiel's family background to sense what his conflicts are and to suspect that this gifted youngster is more likely to get the help he needs from a psychoanalyst than a pitching coach.
Multiple and mobile points of view, rapid shifts between foreground and background, the sense of place as a dynamic character, a moral chiaroscuro that sends the heroes lurching between light and dark: it's not hard to make Greene and the screen look like a perfect match.
Consequently the idea also fades into the background, while sense and reference remain central.
