Word: comfortes
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...Back at school though, as soon I walk in his office, or see him with other members of the department, I’m always careful to address him as ‘professor.’ Once you’ve crossed that line of comfort, you have to make this constant transition to remain professional. But you do it—because you have...
...degree of manliness. (Note: see the professor’s upcoming book.) Mansfield said he tends to approach more quiet students by asking them more simple questions—where they are from or what they watch on television. He also tries to tell them jokes. Once students feel comfortable, he said, usually their intelligence takes over and they are eager to share their ideas. This comfort, then, allows for the relationship to be rewarding for both parties...
...came knocking on Mok's door in 1997 suggesting a part in his forthcoming film, 8 1/2 Women. Mok turned him down: despite the lunacy of the characters she had played; she feared that full-frontal nudity and on-screen sex was something she wouldn't be comfortable with. What she means perhaps is that a director other than Greenaway might have let her find that comfort zone...
...spring and only headed lower in the near term, thanks to an OPEC price war that?s turning the Middle East oil belt into some semblance of the airline industry. Cheap oil is tough on developing countries - who are usually trying to sell it - but it?s tidings of comfort and joy for consumer economies like the U.S. and Europe...
Mashed potatoes are the ultimate comfort food. But boiling the potatoes and whipping them up just right is a drag. Now homemaker Carmina O'Connor of Warrenville, Ill., has patented a mashed-potato machine that cooks, mashes and flavors potatoes in just 20 min. Chefs insert washed potatoes into a food processor-size device and add water and seasonings. A finalist in Hammacher Schlemmer's Search for Invention 2001 competition, O'Connor hopes that someday "mashed-potato machines will be for Americans what rice cookers are for Asians." Now all she needs is someone to make and market her invention...