Word: containedness
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It was as if all the world's wit were rolled into one portly fellow. PETER USTINOV, who died last week at 82, once boasted, "I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins" (his great-grandfather wedded the Princess of Ethiopia). He spoke six languages...
This year's pool also contained the lowest number of valedictorian applicants in five years.
(2 of 2) Goalkeepers are a different breed: they are drawn to, then shaped by, the extreme pressures of the position, and often respond with tricked-out hairstyles, dazzling jerseys and nicknames like El Loco. The job is reactive by definition, highlighted only in moments of ultimate significance. It's...
It comes across as inexplicable (or truly selfish) that I hate turning down the volume so that everything’s contained and nice. “What’s the point,” one thinks, “of owning a subwoofer just to blow more air...
The movement began as a reaction against critical theory. Its founders wanted to return to a model of thinking about what environmental writing does that “credits its power to capture the nature in words,” Buell says. “A good piece of writing...