Word: accustomedness
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“BMF saved my life,” Terry says, remembering how he felt alienated even from members of the black community—those who were accustomed to white suburban ways of thinking. Then he met the BMF brothers.
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...
Not for nothing, however, are calamities like Nevado del Ruiz known as acts of God. For the people who lived and worked in the farmlands around the simmering mountain, the early signs of eruption were accepted as part of the environment. Nor could anyone have predicted that the disaster would...