Word: accustomedness
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Along with pervasive fear, the AIDS crisis has caused a drastic change in the life-styles of those homosexuals who were accustomed to multiple partners. Most of them have altered their sexual habits to a degree that would have seemed inconceivable five years ago, significantly reducing the number of their...
We've grown accustomed to his faces: Hitler the buffoon, Hitler the madman, Hitler the monster. Memoirs of a Confidant introduces us to Hitler the misunderstood idealist whose vision of peace and prosperity was distorted by his gangster lieutenants. The author of this benign nonsense was Otto Wagener, a forgotten...
There is a long pause after he says this. The gaps in his discourse are so chasmodic that even friends who are accustomed to them are unsettled. An interviewer wonders, "Have I just said something that sets the North American record for stupidity?" No, Keillor is just doing a monologue...
Gorbachev did not always even hear out the Americans. More than once he listened to just enough of the Russian translation to get the gist, then cut off the translator and launched into a rebuttal. Commented Shultz: "He is accustomed to interrupting and expressing a view. So, when in Moscow...
On making records. Years ago, I didn't spend much time recording. I was putting a lot of pressure on myself to do it right and fast then because of the confinement of the studio. But nobody else works that way. Now people's ears have become accustomed to hearing...