Word: couchful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just one self-revelatory soliloquy in which Hal claims that his carousing is essentially an act and that he knows full well what will be expected of him as a mature ruler. The notion that he is a pretender as well as the Pretender has upset many critics (Quiller-Couch went so far as to brand the speech Shakespeare's "most damnable piece of workmanship"). But it can make sense of one perceives that there are two Hals. Good OF Hal, and the Prince (it is instructive to compare the off stage and on-stage Mozart...
...against modern nerves. For if Hardy was the last "child of the oral tradition," as Michael Millgate proposes in this awesomely thorough biography, he was also the first modern English novelist. It is the predicament of Hardy's readers to find themselves stretched out on Freud's couch in the shadow of Stonehenge...
...next year, while the Crimson will only lose three starters to graduation, it may lose a talented and dedicated couch capable of leading Harvard to the one goal that still stands resolute--a National championship...
Following the arrows along all of the little ramps leading out of the airport frazzled me, but I found my way back to North Austin. Once back on my own two feet, I dove for the closest beer and a stationary couch. I do not like to drive...
...deceptively casual manner Garment slumped onto a blue-covered couch that faced the White House front lawn. Never one to beat around the bush, he opened the conversation by asking: "Have you lost your mind...