Word: barrenly
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...Jian to question the career that has been set before him, the mentor he thought he knew and the world in which he lives. He's not the only one. While Jian sinks into depression, wondering whether he should bother sitting for his exams and doom himself to a barren life "as a clerk in a workshop", news of a student gathering in Beijing arrives through BBC radio broadcasts and Meimei's letters from the restive capital. Jian wants to stay out of it, but in the spring of 1989 that's impossible...
Here at Harvard, we love to complain about our barren dating-scene. The hopeless plight of the single, we hear again and again, is to suffer mortifying awkwardness or to remain forever alone. We are all familiar with the “is-this-a-date?” dinner at Border Café, and we can at least sympathize with those desperate folks in FM, caught mid-hookup with someone they probably did not know and wish they did not remember...
...meantime, I sit here in my room, ever-barren of cable, and wait for the VHS copy of last week’s Sopranos to arrive by FedEx from Providence where my roommate’s girlfriend kindly taped...
...mother instructed him and his seven siblings to tell people was owned, not rented. The lie fostered an illusion of affluence, but behind the façade, says Mullan, "we didn't even have any furniture. We were dirt poor." The family's emotional landscape was even more barren. Mullan's father, an alcoholic World War II veteran, was an abusive and distant figure who seemed actively to court his family's contempt. When Mullan was 14 - by this time, he says, his father "had been serially raping my mother for a number of years" - the boy decided to take...
Back at ground zero--16 barren acres, including the footprints of the towers--the debate continues about how best to commemorate the loss. There are many competing pressures and different viewpoints. I am convinced that ground zero must first and foremost be a memorial. All other decisions should flow from that goal. If anything else is added to the site, it should complement and not overshadow the memorial. People a hundred years from now should be able to grasp the enormity of this attack by visiting this sacred ground. Ground zero is a cemetery. It is the last resting place...