Word: cocoon
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...special SACDs (which will play at lower quality on standard CD players) to take advantage of this. SACDs cost around $20, and selection is limited. My wife and I ended up viewing a special edition of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which was especially swell in our cocoon of sound...
...Senate and as Estrada's Vice President and Social Welfare Secretary. Says Rigoberto Tiglao, the palace spokesman: "As President, you get so much advice?wrong or right?that after a while, if your intellect isn't that good, you stop trying to process it and you hide in a cocoon of close advisers. But President Arroyo is always checking things out with her own sources." She despises gossip and fuzziness, and her demand for "empirical evidence" has become a palace mantra...
...Still, facilitating cultural integration-while at the same time creating an environment that fosters diversity-is the stated goal of the school's administrators. Achieving that goal is a tricky process, especially since many Swedish students remain in their own academic cocoon, isolated from their non-native schoolmates. The 23 students in Yngve Blomfelt's Wednesday afternoon geography lesson, for example, are almost all native Swedes and all are from Olofstorp, a small village nestled in the countryside. Hjällboskolan's hallways may teem with diversity and the babel of foreign tongues, but none of this is evident inside...
...important addition to the new Explorer would not have been possible before: an air-bag curtain that activates in the event of a rollover and envelops passengers in a cocoon. The technology is so new that Ford had to gamble that its supplier would be able to provide...
These early scenes with Sibylla and Ludo provide comic relief in an otherwise haunting, melancholy work. The novel is almost free form, with shifting narrative voices and scholarly digressions on whatever happens to fascinate Sibylla or Ludo at any given moment. Enveloped in their cocoon of lonely eccentricity, mother and son watch Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai over and over, and fragments from the film float through the novel like a refrain in a minor key. Eventually, Ludo begins a quest of his own, not to recruit samurai but to track down a father, any father. "I felt ashamed, really...