Word: brood
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...something more to life, he wonders dimly, than crawling up the salary ladder, moving from suburb to classier suburb? If the process by which a novel becomes a bestseller is not simply a random phenomenon, like the winning of a lottery-a dubious proposition that wise old publishers brood about-then Gray Flannel owed its vogue to the fact that a lot of sad young men were thinking the way Tom was. Presumably they must have liked the novel's reassuring answer, which is, more or less, cherish your wife, vote yes on school bond issues, and existential despair...
...years ago not because he wanted to but because he was banished for embezzling post office funds. After settling his family in Maryland, across the bay from Annapolis, he set himself up as a schoolmaster and died when Peale was only nine. Peale's mother moved her brood to Annapolis, where she did embroidery to sustain her five children and apprenticed Charles (the eldest) to a saddlemaker at the age of twelve. By 20, Peale had married and gone into debt to open his own saddlery. He also diversified into upholstery, harnessmaking and silversmithing...
...dogs, my brood, how they're hungry all the time...
...sinner, he does not amount to much, but he does have that Nazi busi ness to brood about...
...film Barry Lyndon. The movie, based on William Thackeray's novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, features Ryan O'Neal as a young Irish rogue looking for wealth and Marisa as the countess who supplies it by marrying him. The bathtub, where she goes to brood after catching Ryan flirting with another girl, proved to be as annoying as it was authentic. "They had to keep rilling it with hot water. And since there was no plug, they had a lot of pipes carrying water out of the room." Now recovered from the pink-and-wrinkled look, Berenson...