Word: conquere
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...yell 'Jump!'" He finds his hero in Gunther Gebel-Williams, an animal trainer with an instinctive ability to orchestrate big cats into tawny fugues. To Hoagland, Gebel-Williams seems "to live in a state of direct gaiety." Unlike Clyde Beatty, for example, he does not conquer his animals crudely but controls them with a lover's touch...
...chimings of beeps and rings and bits of voices. She is awake. The tension in her. Struggling to make the decision to move. The tautness increasing. This maddening tension as she fights feeling morbid about paralysis. She wants to love it. It is only that, if she does not conquer it, she will never be able to answer demands upon her. So? She equates abulia with original sin. Not like cigarettes, drinking, etc. She laughs. Come on woman, do it! The tremor of the laugh tickles down her body again. Then, finally, her eyes open of their own accord...
...every day makes her thank her God for taking her natural daughter, cares for Agnes, her symbolic daughter; she comforts her on a mountainous bared breast, a pose which evokes both maternalism and highly charged overtones of distorted sexuality. Like Agnes, Anna has a faith which she feels will conquer all and resolve all; but as Agnes's has been neurotic, Anna's faith is simply fantastic...
...still has the power. There are worlds yet to conquer. He will dominate our lives right up to the end. But there has been a subtle change. The political carnivores of Washington have gotten the message that his power is finite...
...formidable foe, yet she inexplicably fails to kill Castaneda when he bungles an encounter with her. As suddenly as she is brought up, La Catalina is mysteriously dropped after one chapter. For his final showdown with her, Castaneda will need an "ally," a spirit he must conquer for his personal use. In the last pages of the book, Castaneda meets his ally but does not tame it. Finally, Don Juan tells Castaneda that he will not explain anything more to him; the tutelage is ended...