Word: alcoholic
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...obvious question aside—isn’t listing the signs of internet addiction online like inscribing the symptoms of alcohol addiction at the bottom of a vodka bottle?—it was disturbing to find that what I had chalked up to simple procrastination could, in the right hands, be transformed into a terrifying condition. Ours is a culture that throws serious terms like “rape” and “addiction” around unthinkingly, e.g. “I was raped by that ec test?...
...your mouth explodes [with] German flavor,” Mahillon said while chowing down a bratwurst. “I went to Germany in 2006 for the [World Cup] and this is exactly what I got—it’s really authentic.”Consumption of alcohol was limited to these two areas, which drew criticism from some attendees.“It’s sad that unlike in France or Germany we can’t just sit outside here with a beer in hand without being asked to be in a cage...
...oversee the process, and around 1200, Pope Alexander III, outraged over the proliferation, decreed that only the pope had the power to determine who could be identified as a saint. (Alexander was reportedly angered about one saint in particular whom he believed had been killed in an alcohol-fueled brawl and was therefore not worthy of canonization...
When some drop out of school, have children out of wedlock, and go to prison, the wealthy can shake their heads at the undeserving poor with no place in our society. We begrudge them cigarettes and cell phones, alcohol and drug use, unmarried sex, and even their ability to have children, forgetting King Lear in Act II: “O, reason not the need!... / Allow not nature more than nature need, / Man life’s as cheap as beast’s.” Instead, let’s look to Act III: “Take...
...testimonies from survivors of massacres of Indian villages.“Senselessness” begins with the words spoken by one survivor: “I am not complete in the mind.” By its end, the same can be said about the narrator, a paranoid alcoholic who loves sex and despises the Catholic Church, a curiously obsessive, self-absorbed man whose overactive mind is most vulnerable to the graphic details of the accounts he has been paid to read. On the job, he drowns in the accounts he reads. He is so moved by them that...