Word: brushed
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...couple of lines," Vidal recalls. "There's one I have Senator Carlin say :'I just want you to know I'm a hundred percent behind you. Just call me for anything you want.' Jack said you know you're dead when they tell you that. That's the big brush...
...alas, you don't get this glorious form without a few blood sacrifices at the altar of function. Take the on-off switch. There's no button, just a purple-glowing touch-sensitive circle. Very year 2000. And very irritating if you happen to brush your hand over it, as I did on more than one occasion, only to discover I had turned the machine off. This is why touch-sensitive keyboards never went mainstream. We humans prefer the certainty of pressing buttons...
Three of every four Nigerians live in small towns like Ushafa, where roofs are either of tin or brush, and chickens routinely ignored Secret Service instructions to clear a way for the world's most powerful...
...best-case scenario for my campaign now," says Hagelin, "is that we get those federal matching funds, we conduct a high-profile and dynamic campaign, and we get swept into office the same way Jesse Ventura did. We have three months, and a brush fire is already building. There are no limits to what we can accomplish in this election season...
...question, Chardin was one of the greatest artists who ever picked up a brush--and all the greater for painting without the attributes of greatness. Eighteenth century France was a fine incubator for pictorial grandeur, as in the history pieces of Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Its sexual rhetoric--think of Boucher's pink and frothy shepherdesses--was peerless. Since the reign of Louis XIV, whose minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert had striven to connect the visual arts to the very essence of French gloire, every kind of official discourse had flourished in French painting and sculpture, as it did in the arts...