Word: chillness
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FUSSELL'S BOOK--and I've only giving you a pale chill compared to the frisson you get reading it--leaves you with a sense of an entire social construct arising out of the Great War. He carefully analyzes the major war-related works of Sassoon, Owen, Robert Graves, David Jones, and Edmund Blunden, to show how they created the new ironic form of cognition World War I bestowed upon our culture...
...work on a form crew. We build forms for concrete and tear them down. Some women work on mine crews that chill and blast, and some are mechanics and welders. We also shovel...
CONGRESSMAN O'NEILL and Mayor Daley sedately shook hands with arriving well-wishers in the chill midday drizzle. Police officers hustled taxicabs out of the way to allow limousines to ease to the curb, stop briefly, then pull away to join the lines of double-parked Cadillacs and Continentals. Against each leaned a chauffeur, cap pulled over his eyes and cigarette cupped discretely in his hands. Businessmen, politicians and journalists chatted and joked quietly as they strolled through the well-dressed crowd...
...pleased to meet you," Marion said. She had peripherally noticed the aberration in Cleaver's pants without seeming to do so. There was a chill in her voice as these men surrounded her in a circle, mocking her slightly, and this big black man, the self-confessed white-girl rapist "on principle," with his penis slouching down between his legs, shook her hand. From that moment she was not fond of Eldridge Cleaver...
...structure of The Winter's Tale is not bipartite, as usually maintained, but tripartite, a fine example of the Hegelian dialectic. In the first three acts we have a thesis: the chill, sterile, tragic life of Leontes's middle-aged court in Sicilia. In the fourth act, we have the antithesis: the pastoral and exuberant life of the young commoners in Bohemia. The fifth act brings us a synthesis, in which the two components are brought into mellow harmony with each other...