Word: awoken
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...spent the next few nights being rudely awoken by my obnoxious phone alarm more times than should ever be legal. The next few days were a blur, as I stumbled around in a world I saw through half-20/20, half-foggy vision. I eventually resorted to a pirate-esque eye patch to keep things in one perspective...
...Alliance, which critics suspect would like to spin off oil-rich Shi'ite southern Iraq into an autonomous region, includes one Sunni party from Anbar province. When asked, many average Iraqis say sectarian violence was something forced on them by outsiders, a bad dream from which they've now awoken. (See pictures of Iraq's revival...
...video, Coffman dances to Saturday Night Live’s “Mother Lover.” Johnstone goes to sleep but is awoken by a minotaur whose visit predicts "grevious misfortune" to come. Johnstone then wakes up to Coffman complaining about his work. “I have this presentation in two days…don’t even know what it’s on. The Renaissance? Psh! I don’t know what the Renaissance is!” says Coffman...
Nevertheless, poetry has an oral component, and though it is underemphasized, there is something awoken in any poem when it is actually spoken out loud. Echoing sounds connect lines that are semantically distinct. An emphasis placed on a key syllable can release meaning in the same way a sound wave can shatter glass. Listening to a poem is to hear language in its most primitive usage: expression of the unapparent. But what happens when no one, save for the most astute listeners, can understand what is being expressed? Does this not defeat the original point of even talking...
...like many West Wing staffers on Friday, Deputy White House Spokesman Bill Burton had been awoken by a phone call, in this case from an ABC News correspondent, Yunji De Nies, who told Burton that President Obama had just won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. "That is good," quipped Burton...