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Recent Examples of bestirNewspapers can barely bestir themselves to report on the latest inhumanity in Ukraine — the latest bombing of a school, say.—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024 Witnesses—from staffers and family members to congresspeople—conjured a muted Commander-in-Chief, who could not bestir himself, as armed rioters stormed the Capitol building, to rise from his seat at the head of the West Wing’s dining-room table and call off the mob.—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022 If the charges against Bob Kraft are proven to be true, then Goodell should bestir himself to punish the Patriots owner severely, and with something beyond a fine.—Charles P. Pierce, Sports Illustrated, 16 Mar. 2019 Nobody in all his years of coaching at Temple has bestirred Litwack from the bench so often as Drew Nolan.—Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 8 June 2018 And yet most of us have still not bestirred ourselves to care, much less to march in the streets demanding change.—Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
The box office success of King Kong’s 1952 rerelease, followed by Eugene Lourie’s The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), where a dinosaur was awakened by an atomic blast, both served as inspiration.
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Michael Taube,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
Gentle pressure with fingers or toys designed for curved reach can help awaken this zone.
Among them were Julia Roberts and Sean Penn, who served as hosts for a special reception and screening of director Marianna Brennand’s stirring narrative feature Manas.
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Stacey Wilson Hunt,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Sep. 2025
That rich color, the soft texture of the suède, stirred in me all the promise of autumn, of a new school year, of a chance to have instead of to want—in other words, to finally be.
Stubborn inflation and the potential for tariffs to drive up prices have aroused significant fears among policymakers and consumers that household budgets and the economy as a whole will be under significant strain for the foreseeable future.
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Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
The horrors of Gaza have rightly aroused international outrage.
Smoothing round poppy seeds and sea salt—which do the gentle buffing—come suspended in a hunk of detoxifying French blue clay, nourishing olive fruit oil, and zingy peppermint essential oil, the latter of which wakes you up better than any iPhone alarm.
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Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
If anything, conflict is to be expected; seeing eye-to-eye every waking moment of every day would be far more concerning.
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