People who function well strive against odds because they hold on to hope".
It afflicts normal-looking people who function well in other facets of their lives.
The ownership structure of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung insulates its publishers -- who function more like American top editors -- from pressure.
Incorporated into the root system, he often places tiny nude human figures, the "root people," who function like earth spirits.
Under his direction the subjects are, above all, actors who function mainly as allegorical symbols.
She reviews their files, delegates the granular stuff to Flag and presents the project to the military brass who function as her executive board.
If those names evoke Greek tragedy, so will the three women, called the Fates, who function as a kind of chorus.
The talk show's guests, who function as a chorus, intone pseudo-mystical lyrics ("Soul train, unchained, all set, U-bet") to wan New Age harmonies.
The scale and multiple agendas of Mailer's novels led him into formal difficulties — notably prolixity, characters who function as mouthpieces, and a painful inability to reach closure.
Her women encounter men who function, VS Naipaul notes, as "arbitrary providers of dinners, rooms, clothes", but this isn't a world of courtship and marriage.
"I have a couple of patients -- I'm sure everyone has a couple -- who function quite well without Viagra, but more than half need it".
