This conventional liberal critique, diligently presented but lacking in the passion one finds in much of Wicker's writing, could as easily have been written 40 years ago.
In past elections, Republicans have also fielded, and indeed nominated, candidates who did not inspire the troops, like Bob Dole of Kansas in 1996 and Mr. Bush's father, when he lost in 1992 (although, Mr. Bush won in 1988 by diligently presenting himself as the third term of Reagan).
Each Agent of Change diligently presents and supports his/her initiative before the panelists and, later that evening, before the Puerto Ayora Community.
But, proportionally speaking, the billions of ideas diligently pursued and presented by students each year have the academic half-life of say … a mayfly.
It has clearly been diligently researched and is presented in a convincing manner, combining literature knowledge, the vast availability of gene sequences and select biochemical analysis.
And even if the professionals have diligently done their homework and presented their recommendations to the foundation's trustees, there is nothing to prevent those trustees from making the quirkiest, ill-judged and biased decisions.
Despite such provocative material, and in noted contrast to Cronenberg's treatment, Clay resists any urge to embellish, diligently sticking to the facts and presenting even the spiciest of details with admirable restraint.
The Bronx Opera Company, which presented the Rossini rarity "The Thieving Magpie" ("La Gazza Ladra," 1817) on Saturday evening at the Kaye Playhouse, stands out on the city's music scene for diligently upholding the lonely cause of presenting opera in English translation.
That sounds at first like a shockingly homely metaphor for the complex modernist technique that has served Latin American fiction so honorably in the past and that Restrepo has so diligently and so skillfully revived in the present.
The format of the Karsten series dictated that Helmholtz provide a thorough review of both past and present work, a task he performed diligently.
