Word: arced
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...also had the alarming habit of talking about himself in the third person, which is an inverted variation on talking to oneself. In talking to oneself, one invents an interlocutor; Nixon, speaking of himself in the third person, in effect erased an interlocutor--himself! Consider another variation: Joan of Arc. It was not so much that she talked out loud to herself as that she listened intently to the voices in her head...
...Physical arcing and overheating can beproduced with intense jamming," says Carrol. "Youhave an arc [in military planes], but it's not inthe middle of a bunch of jet fuel...
...Cuts--obviously carry inherent risks. Jessica Y. Yin '01 asked her budget stylist to trim the ends straight and cut some bangs--a seemingly simple request. Instead, she was left with hair layered on the ends and bangs that gently sloped upward and then back down again like an arc across her face. "[My roommate] Sarah volunteered to fix it," Yin grumbles. "She abruptly cut the left side. The right side still slopes." Yin, though, took the whole incident in stride. Remember: don't worry, it'll grow...
Stanford had its trouble from outside as well, hitting just 7-of-27 shots from beyond the arc. Two of Stanford's first three three-point attempts were air balls...
These thinnish, arc-less characterizations--shocking from the creator of Song of Solomon's galvanizing Milkman and Pilate, or Beloved's triumvirate of mother and daughters--detract from the novel as a whole. Again, though, this ailment of the text proved ironically rewarding for the Faneuil Hall audience, who could follow the movements of plot and character easily without the impediments of tortuous internal conflicts or irreducible psychic complexities...