Word: afterthoughts
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...Isaac Newton Institute: "We realized where he could be heading. People were giving each other wide-eyed looks." By the end of the third hour, the room was packed with excited number theorists. Wiles finished up his talk and wrote a simple equation on the blackboard, a mathematical afterthought that logically followed from all that he had been saying -- and the audience burst into wild applause...
...finest actor, male or female, in the English-speaking world today. Lynn is a skillful, earthbound performer, at home in both classics and sitcoms, if best remembered for Weight Watchers commercials. Born to another name, she would be the mainspring of family pride. In her tribe, she is an afterthought...
...MDMA (ECSTASY) and thrashing all night to music that clocks 120 beats per minute sound like an experience no red-blooded teenager would want to miss. After describing in detail the erotic effects of massive doses of L-dopa, MDA and deprenyl, the entry on aphrodisiacs adds as an afterthought that in some combinations these drugs can be fatal. Essays praising the beneficial effects of psychedelics and smart drugs on the "information processing" power of the brain sit alongside RANTS that declare, among other things, that "safe sex is boring sex" and that "cheap thrills...
...There's a tremendous revenge factor," Giese added, as a kind of afterthought...
...there's any reason for Fish's optimism, it's a change in the attitude of his players. Out is the confident Ivy-Leage-Championship-as-an-afterthought swagger of last season and in is a gritty determination to scratch and claw for every little inch of ground available. It's a change born not out of convenience so much as necessity...