influential; prominent; strong; likely; plausible
meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention
careful selection; careful screening; hand-picking
factional dispute; factional strife; rivalry between factions
to conform to; to agree with; to be adapted to; to be based on
since some time ago; for some time; for quite a while
eternal; everlasting; unchangeable; invariant
to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live luxuriously; to be proud; to be haughty
universality; ubiquity; omnipresence; catholicity
to concede one is entirely in the wrong (for the sake of argument)
cutout; cutout picture; papercut art
unbelievable; incredible; implausible
raising one's hand; show of hands (e.g. for a vote); salute
point in question (at issue)
unreliable; undependable; untrustworthy; not to be counted on
physical evidence; material evidence
brain waves; electroencephalogram; EEG
to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully
good; OK; all right; fine; very well; will do
single-theater; independent (cinema); art-house (film)
screening (a movie); showing; to screen a movie
performance (of a play, opera, etc.); staging; presentation
towards; against; regarding; in contrast with
to disappear into; to slip into; to be lost in; to be mixed up with
machine parts; machinery; equipment
gorgeous; sumptuous; extravagant; luxurious
power outage; electricity outage; blackout; failure of electricity supply
source of electricity; electrical power; power (button on TV, etc.)
stillness; silence; hush; calm; serenity
movie projector; film projector; cine projector
to project; to show; to portray; to depict; to describe
sneak photography; non-consensual photography; peeping photos
legal; lawful; legitimate