Word: constrictiveness
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...effects to amphetamines but is sold over-the-counter, can also be dangerous when taken before exercise, and was linked to the death of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler earlier this year. One Orioles team doctor said, “It makes the heart beat faster, the blood vessels constrict. That poor kid cooked to death from the inside...
...literary conventions do constrict the writing on occasion, beginning with the rigid stereotypes of each character. The audience feels somewhat beaten over the head with repetitions of “you’re so dull” and “you’re so crazy” between two opposing characters in a formulaic character foil. The sullen girl’s continuous moping and the irrepressible cheeriness of her friend become overwhelming about ten minutes into the production...
...Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, has championed "The Last Summer of Reason," writing a foreword for the new book. "We're really in a season of fundamentalist insanity in many religions," Soyinka told us. "There's a real escalation of intolerance, of the will to constrict the mind. Many people outside have been unaware of the enormity of the killings that have been taking place in Algeria, for instance, in the name of religious purity. So a book like Djaout's, which is a very pointed allegory, is something that I think is required at this...