Word: companion
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...travel companion, Dyer is a lively raconteur, the kind of person you'd want to journey with even if the destination was a nihilistic hell. His stories are peppered with amusing asides and deft observations, not just from him but his fellow travelers: "What a strangely consistent country this is," remarks his girlfriend about a Cambodian river that because of flooding, reverses its current twice a year. "Even the river lacks a clear sense of direction." Oddly, Dyer's narrative also loses its sense of direction in the final chapter, just as he reaches what he has described throughout...
...month before his death, Rawls became the second living philosopher to have a Cambridge Companion volume published...
Charlie—the petite and well-kept mutt that accompanies the psychology concentrator and film actor on jaunts through the Square and its environs—is an unusual companion at a college where most students are forbidden to keep pets...
...closet, the clash between ideals and pragmatism in politics, and a hot-button ballot initiative that would mandate loyalty oaths for all voters. And that's only half the story. Daughters of the Revolution centers on the Democratic side of a gubernatorial race in an unnamed Western state; its companion play, Mothers Against, focuses on the Republican side. In all, it's six hours of dense, unruly, sometimes maddening, always engrossing drama...
When the local newspaper later ran a picture of Law announcing his visit to the island, John realized who his sailing companion had been and called up the bishop to apologize...