trend; set; focus(lexicographer); orientation; slant(особ. о прессе Tanya Gesse); penchant(for Liv Bliss); bearings; strand(Another strand of the contemporary academic novel, and perhaps the dominant one, turns on the mid-life crisis of a professor, reassessing his job and life. • The novella also adds a new formal element to an affair plot, interweaving a strand of horror fiction • "White Noise" is the forefather of this
strand, as it foregrounds the presence of media in our lives, in a
fragmented patter of TV, radio, and advertisingKaniretake)
tenor(Putin also reverted to his trademark nationalist tenor when he said that he was "not a fan" of foreigners adopting Russian children, after children's ombudsman Pavel Astakhov mentioned the deaths of several Russian-born children in the United States. TMT Alexander Demidov)