Word: carrion
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...nobly human, so inherently decent and moral, that it inspires and uplifts. A woman described her feelings as "very sad. Sad for the people, for the families." In the wake of the Oklahoma City and World Trade Center bombings, it seems that terrorism's vulture has found new carrion. It is a mark of the times in which we live that one's initial reaction is "terrorist bomb." As long as nations worldwide continue to pursue democracy--for all its failings--as the morally correct way to live, however, the freedoms they grant will be used against them by enemies...
Apple's lyrics have a sad, cloistered feeling to them. In Sullen Girl she sings, "It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion"; and in Carrion she imagines a broken relationship as a corpse lying between two lovers "like the carrion of a murdered prey...
...darkened doorway of an abandoned building, the medical team finds an empty coffin, waiting like carrion. One by one, neighbors explain, the family that lived there died. First the daughter, 18, went to the Kikwit 2 maternity hospital in late March for a caesarean section. When she got home her incision began to bleed. Then her organs began to melt. The red-black sludge wiggled out of her eyes, her nose, her mouth. Soon her parents got sick. Her father, some villagers believe, died of horror: he told his wife that if she died, he would...
...Once Were Warriors" is the carrion call to the carcass of Maori culture; and its vision means to shake you to the core...
...been few reported cases of looting; we haven't seen the police and military guarding the possessions of those whose homes were destroyed. Compare this with what Americans saw following Hurricane Andrew and the recent California disasters. It is a sad commentary that in the U.S. we have a ``carrion class'' that when disaster strikes, descends on the scene to feed on the misery of others. Robert D. Schoales Melbourne, Florida