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Somebody else was saying, "I didn't grow up with any rules, and I feel like I would be tending toward being overbearing with my kids, so hearing your story has been helpful to me to realize more rules are not always better."

And, truth be told, this extremely simple recipe also works well even simpler, skipping the grilling-or-roasting step altogether, especially if your pears are tending toward overripe, which won’t hold up well to the heat.

The question of whether publicly financed football stadiums are a boon or a bust for their local communities has been debated for years, with learned opinion tending toward the latter.

It’s all self-contained areas: the flat blue background tending toward the show’s wall color; his pale, somewhat grim yet tentative expression and the solid black slab of his overcoat.

The soprano Eleonora Buratto was a forthright rather than fragile Mimì, with muscular high notes tending toward the steel more often associated with Cio-Cio-San in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.”