BECAUSE most right-thinking — i.e., literate, educated, professional-type — people consider horror fiction repulsive, juvenile or plain stupid, it's probably a good idea for me to acknowledge from the start that the genre's respectability deficit is fully deserved and even fundamental to its nature.
While purposefully consuming something that could kill you to lose weight is objectively a bad idea, we have to acknowledge that the recurring legend of the tapeworm diet is wrapped up in a Western history of both deriding female vanity and outcasting the overweight.
The panel was organized hastily when the festival's director, Jed Dietz, asked Simon for ideas about how to acknowledge the protests.
The idea is to learn to acknowledge and address all these needs with more skill, understanding and grace in mindful awareness.
"The idea put forward today fails to acknowledge the wider contribution made by Imperial to society, and will place further pressure on jobs and livelihoods," the spokesman said.
When you're ready to conclude your practice it's a good idea to take a moment to acknowledge the time you have just spent cultivating calm and attention.
Indeed, it bothers Mr Krugman so much he cannot be brought even to acknowledge the idea that the very real inequalities Mr Brooks enumerates between college grads and the rest are important at all, much less more important than the disproportionately rising fortunes of the top 1% or.1%.
Co-editor Eric Eldon, for example, hates the idea and would prefer not to acknowledge that the show exists.
That put the White House on the spot, and Obama's aides quickly began to acknowledge the idea might have merit.
More complex is the notion of vindication--the idea of someone being forced to acknowledge, verbally or otherwise, they have done wrong.
