Word: compounding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...left North Korea years ago and is now believed to be receiving psychiatric care in Russia. His childhood was spent as a recluse; he saw little of anybody except a few relatives and a cousin who was his closest playmate. His rare visits out of the palatial family compound in Pyongyang were in tinted-window limousines. But this Kim, unlike his father, has traveled abroad frequently and was educated in Switzerland. He is believed to have worked for North Korea's military intelligence agency and is thought to have a keen interest in computers. North Koreans in Japan who support...
Shortly after he and his son were peacefully and very publicly arrested on charges of "economic plunder" and carted off to a jail in a Manila military compound, Joseph Estrada, the disgraced ex-President of the Philippines, proclaimed his innocence on television and radio interviews and dismissed his persecution as a conspiracy being waged against him by the ?lite classes. It was potentially rousing material, but the former movie star's delivery failed him. He was still wearing his trademark white wristband adorned with the presidential seal, but his swagger was gone. He looked defeated and confused...
...went to the presidential palace tonight, and it looked like a war zone. It was littered with the debris of a street battle - stones, burning garbage and sandals everywhere. Inside the presidential compound there were armored vehicles, fire engines, and about 200 commandos camped out in front with machine guns as if they?re still ready for something...
...Initially, the novel is engaging, with a brief overview of the compound, the characters and a visit from father to daughter. This candlelit visit will be the center of the story and the center of the daughter’s longing, and Jorge indicates its significance from the beginning. But, despite the significance of this visit, the references to it and various other critical events in the story become repetitive through the novel. The most noticeable redundancy in this portion of novel is the fact that the main character doesn’t have a name; she is just referred...
...novel has its turning point. Walter returns to the family home in Portugal after traveling the world as a soldier and an artist. He arrives in a taxi—something the family has never seen before—and brings cars and other modern luxuries to the compound. His daughter is filled with the love she had never felt from the portion of her family with whom she lives and her mother rediscovers her love for Walter. After he disappears as abruptly as he came, the story begins to change. The voice of the daughter replaces the omnipresent narrator...