Word: banishing
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Omar prefers to rule from the shadows of Kandahar, while his feared Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice enforces Taliban law through religious police with kohl-rimmed eyes, wearing black turbans, who crack whips at recalcitrant mosquegoers and banish women to the window-blocked confines of their homes. Life is severely constricted by an endless list of rules creating a variant of Islam never seen before, say Muslim scholars. In a country in which there is no television and only Islamic radio, Omar shows little knowledge of or concern for the outside world. When officials...
...achieves the celestial pantheon--said something in support of this retrograde activity recently. Referring to elegies he had written to the poets Joseph Brodsky and Ted Hughes, he remarked, "At a certain age, the light that you live with is inhabited by shades... The death of people doesn't banish them out of your consciousness...
Outdoor Resorts is, well, a motor-home camp. Not a trailer park, though, so banish those images of downtrodden migrants from The Grapes of Wrath, of clotheslines tied to dented and dusty vans, scruffy patches of grass and malodorous toilets. That's not Indio. The 424 campsites wrap around a golf course. At the center of the complex is a clubhouse with an Olympic-size swimming pool, four tennis courts and a health spa with masseuse. Gardeners tend a cheerful landscape of date palms, bougainvillea, hibiscus and petunias...
...comely anonymous flesh - is, at risk of overgeneralizing, pretty much a male fantasy. (I'd love to know how many women were present at the pitch meeting.) And one of the few entertaining moments came when the male halves of the couples failed to get that. Allowed to banish whichever of the Mr. Sluts seemed to be the biggest threat, they decided to purge a buff guy "who looks like Sisqo...
...seen the ubiquitous TV commercial for the hotel chain where, the ad suggests, every employee is prepared to give a guest detailed strategic advice and encouragement for a forthcoming business meeting? Unlike a more traditional advertising claim--that, say, an angel flies out of a can of cleanser to banish grime with her magic wand--this hotel's claim is not inherently or obviously metaphorical. Yet it's clearly not true--a point that probably didn't even occur to the producers of the ad or 99% of its viewers. The deception is not on purpose; few are deceived...