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It gave him the enduring sense that what we perceive as a stable, ordered world is in truth a fragile, improvised construction of convenient fictions around which we cobble together a makeshift sense of our own identity.
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The pimp and his makeshift family create a sense of belonging this child has been denied in his/her desperate efforts to be noticed and "be somebody".
Leth noted that UNICEF's emphasis on quickly reopening schools, even in tents and makeshift settings, helps restore a sense of normalcy for children, while also providing trained adults a place to monitor children and help those suffering from trauma.
It's no longer just Nikita and Alex or Nikita and Michael on the run; you really get the sense that they've created this makeshift family together with Birkhoff and now, Sean and Ryan.
Doctors and nurses did what they could, pinning curtains around two stretchers to create makeshift semiprivate rooms and dimming the lights to bring some sense of calm to the chaos.
The split-screen videos show Tepco executives huddled around a conference table, at times barking out orders to managers at the plant's bustling makeshift control center — and at other times merely trying to make sense of the situation.
While a sense of its grandeur remains, the interior is rundown and makeshift housing structures fill the floor of the gallery.
Looking back, I can make some sense of it, but at the time my life was all very makeshift and provisional, more dependent on luck than on planning or intent.
It was a makeshift setting, but there was nothing stinting or perfunctory about his apology, and that made sense: there is nothing stinting or perfunctory about his golf game.
In 2003 the Hampstead Theatre in North London effected its own version of the move now under way at the Bush, and some still feel that its bigger, slicker auditorium can't match the personality and sense of purpose of the shack-like building of old, a venue whose makeshift, modular feel was part of its charm.
In a sense his career never fully recovered from this blow: if there is a makeshift quality about many of its later events, one explanation can be found in his constant need to reconcile his intellectual aspirations with the financial needs of his family.
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