Word: creaks
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...saint." That's a bit much for Hitchens, who prefers to say that Orwell "took some of the supposedly Christian virtues and showed how they could be 'lived' without piety or religious belief." One virtue Orwell did not possess was an ear for good fiction. His early novels creak and groan with messages about the evils of imperialism, capitalism or middle-class respectability. Even Animal Farm and 1984 are memorable more for the power of their ideas than the gracefulness of their prose. Indeed, there are probably dozens of 20th century writers who took on Orwell's causes in that...
...remember an epiphany I had that night when I went into the library,” she says. “There was something in the lights, and the creak of the stairs. And I came around to the view that I really wanted to be an academic after...
Cell phone bills skyrocket with constant updates between family members before class, during class—bathroom break!—and after class. TFs look quizzically at watergun-toting students who rush into the room panting for breath, only to creak open the door slowly, peering nervously outward, after section comes...
...favorite recordings, which ranged from former Cabaret Voltaire member Chris Watson’s work as a BBC nature recording engineer to composer Pierre Henry’s “Variations for a Door and a Sigh,” a 45-minute work made from the creak of a door and a gasp...
...authentic, provincial flavor?street-side Thai eateries instead of Pizza Huts. But it's no bush-league backwater. In fact, no beach in Asia can claim quite the bloodline. Dotted with palaces, steeped in history, Hua Hin celebrates the grandeur of old Siam. You feel it with every creak of the teak floorboards at the old Railway Hotel, built at the Queen's command as a guesthouse for royal parties. Nowadays, it's been reborn as the grandiose 200-room Sofitel Central Hua Hin Resort. Yet the enormous balconies, antique furnishings and white colonial architecture still reflect the unique style...