Word: cocoon
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...even more difficult is the sense of looming farewells which also stands at odds to chocolate-box conceptions of a sickly-sweet springtime. Witness the hordes of people teeming through the streets any weekend night in late April and May, emerging suddenly from a long hibernation in their overheated cocoon-like dorm rooms to make last-ditch contact with friends who will disperse all over the globe for the summer break. It’s not just the weather bringing us out of the insulation and into the sun; it’s the sense that this is all nearly...
...most apparent balance was between synthetic and organic. On one end of the stage stood Nicolas Godin, alone with his acoustic guitar. On the other stood Dunckel, ensconced in a veritable cocoon of keyboards and synthesizers...
...making strong, sharp arguments against the President's most fateful decisions: the blind rush into an elective war, the economic and legislative tilt toward the wealthy. If recent performances are any guide, the President hasn't developed an adequate response yet. He will have to break free from his cocoon and reacquaint himself with the public, if he hopes to find...
Perhaps her biggest fan of all, however, is Levin himself. “It was immediately obvious that she is a young woman of enormous talent and great intelligence and street smart and enormous flair. Sometime you have to try to get people out of their cocoon, but Berenika is a born communicator...
...movie depicts characters whose worlds are smaller, whose paths are clearly, almost painfully defined, and recalls those small, clearly defined years from my own life which could nearly be contained within a convenience shop/video rental store. As the movie’s gleeful profanity and grungy soundtrack recalled the cocoon of my best friend’s basement (which, incidentally, was so small that we could barely stretch our legs on her futon without kicking her television), my college life suddenly seemed to be almost a search for a new set of boundaries to replace the ones that had once...