Word: brushed
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...Dean’s demise were being greatly exaggerated, or at least greatly rushed. On Feb. 2, right after Iowa, Time wrote, “Howard Dean found himself clawing his way back from his near-death experience”—despite the fact that his brush with “death” had consisted of picking up a respectable number of delegates before the polls opened in 49 out of 50 states. Once set in motion, nothing could derail the media’s plotline, which left the doctor no room for resuscitation...
...more likely to be a woman's. In Sarah Dunant's agile new novel, The Birth of Venus (Random House; 394 pages), the fictional narrator is Alessandra Cecchi, 14, the daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant in the Florence of Michelangelo and Botticelli. Alessandra yearns to live with a brush in her hand. For that matter, she would be happy just to get out of the house. But it's the 1490s, so her best hope is an agreeable arranged marriage. Meanwhile, her closest girlfriend is her worldly-wise black slave. (Jada Pinkett Smith, call your agent.) And her instructor...
After all, does biology really explain the butterflies we feel when a quirky, but somehow cool, guy talks to us? And are therapists able to rationalize the gut feeling that ensues after we brush against a girl’s soft hair? How does science explain the “I dunno why, but she/he just really gets to me” phase of attraction...
...bathe in the evening to chill out, so in the morning it's jump out of bed, put a warm flannel [washcloth] on my face, brush my teeth, moisturize, dress and leave. I'm one of those quick people, five to 10 minutes...
...love of landscape. He realized later that the three worlds among which he moved—Expressionism, landscapes and abstract painting—and which became in their disparateness a source of frustration, were not mutually exclusive. In the end, the landscape still needed to be expressed by his brush...