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Thus , the best contemporary music attracts tiny audiences and sells mere handfuls of CDs . Among the most instrumental of all artists in effecting this change were a handful of American poets . In the afternoon of a certain summer 's day , after Pearl grew big enough to run about , she amused herself with gathering handfuls of wild flowers , and flinging them , one by one , at her mother 's bosom ; dancing up and down like a little elf whenever she hit the scarlet letter . If students are comfortable with the role-play debate format , you might present a handful of questions for debate . A handful of people are putting the policymakers to shame by taking the initiative themselves . Rather than being treated as exceptions to the non-violent Arabs and Muslims who make up the vast majority of Middle Eastern societies , these handfuls of freaks and criminals are often blown up into a global conspiracy seen as a direct , immediate , mortal threat to the US.Such scare-tactics journalism and political nonsense allow otherwise reasonable people and rational institutions to dwell in a manufactured world of fear , ignorance , hysteria and racism . Gudule ; for a step - - but half a step farther , and you would plunge headlong into the gulf of imbecility ; there lodged , you would speedily receive proofs of Flemish gratitude and magnanimity in showers of Brabant saliva and handfuls of Low Country mud . A classic paybanding system might contain three broad salary bands within a handful of career tracks - one for entry-level , one for full performance and a third for senior expert . Taking the steel box from where it was stored he carefully removed the several handfuls of excelsior-like explosive . Currently , there are only a handful of black editors at the major publishing houses , and their numbers have not increased significantly over the years , according to Malaika Adero , former executive editor at Amistad Press .