Word: constant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...games ago, constant downpour kept fans away from the Stadium in record numbers as the Massachusetts Minutemen bested the Crimson, 17-7. Then last week, the gridders faced an unenviable rain-snow-sleet mixture in Philadelphia where they bowed to the Penn Quakers...
...instrument for this was color, betokening light. Nice gave him a different light from Paris -- a high, constant effulgence with little gray in it, flooding broadly across sea, city and hills, producing luminous shadows and clear tonal structures. It encouraged Matisse to think of space (in particular, the space of the hotel rooms where he worked overlooking the Promenade des Anglais) as a light-filled box, full of reflections, transparencies and openings. Shutters filter the light, and their bars are echoed in the stripes of awnings or rugs; light is doubled by mirrors that break open the space...
...important to realize that inherent in any language is its constant subjectability to change. No language, despite the grandest efforts, can resist change over time. Any perusal of texts from a wide variety of time periods will reveal this. No stage of a language is inherently superior to any other, since language naturally adapts to new environments and conditions. If people find it easier to make themselves understood by saying something in a slightly new fashion, such innovation will survive depending on its effectiveness and usefulness. Thus we see the application of the survival of the fittest theory to language...
THOUGH HE IS no Humbert, the chilling "enchanter" is engaging in his own right. Like other protagonists in Nabokov's work, the precise, thinlipped jeweler is probably mad, as he indulges more and more in his wolvish fantasies. Yet, at the same time, his constant introspection reveals a natural need for self-justification and an odd paternal longing...
...strange to have a real-life job. This is really these peoples' lives. If you don't get that application in, it might really affect their lives, they might even be deported," the Dunster House resident says. "I have a constant horror, a constant fear that if I do something wrong it could really affect them...