focusing on only the good points or strong points; incorporating the benefits (while ignoring the drawbacks); picking the best of both (everything); cherry-picking (e.g. information)
glance; look; glimpse; complete view; bird's-eye view
slightly (blushing); suddenly (getting bright, flaring up, flashing on, etc.); distractedly
to plunder; to grab; to snatch
embrace; hug; holding in one's arms
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
to cover; to bury (e.g. one's face in hands); to submerge; to fill (completely); to stuff; to pack
release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)
to hurt one's feelings; to rub someone the wrong way
favour; favor; obligation; debt of gratitude
all one's life; throughout one's life; as long as one lives
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
director (of the provincial governors under the ritsuryo system)
star (usu. not including the Sun); planet (usu. not including Earth); star (glyph, symbol, shape); star (actor, player, etc.); small dot; spot; star point (in go)
to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for
to fall in love; to be in love; to be charmed with; to lose one's heart to
endless; boundless; innumerable; endless; never-ending; going on forever
to set (sun); to become dark
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
figure of a person; figures of people; shadow of a person
with my own (two) eyes; with these very eyes
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
for the present; for the time being; for a while (from now); for some time (to come)
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
to draw near; to draw closer; to press (e.g. for an answer); to hound
to be puffed up with pride; to throw out one's chest
vocational school; technical school
entry to school or university; matriculation; enrolment (in university, etc.) (enrollment)
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
just after a holiday break; the first day after the holidays
September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
first day of the month; (arch.) first ten days of the lunar month