Word: devoide
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...Devoid of all prissiness and manners, Eloise was the original antidote to the girl next door. The first Eloise book proved a startling publishing success, sharing the best-seller list with works by Graham Greene and John O'Hara. To date, it has sold more than 2 million copies. But the three other sequels--Eloise in Paris, Eloise at Christmastime and Eloise in Moscow--were yanked out of print by Thompson in the mid-'60s. She let the original remain. After Thompson's death in 1998, her estate allowed Simon & Schuster to resurrect the three sequels the next year...
...Sadly, Cabot is devoid of “cutie-pies,” so after an hour of drinking games and reunions with his Yard compatriots, Fisher moves on to a party in Winthrop hosted by “another buddy from St. Albans.” A false fire alarm brings everyone out onto the streets by 1 a.m., and since his upperclass friends decide to head out to a bar, it’s time for Fisher to call it a night...
...city where skyscraping banks tower over junk boats; a city where vendors hawk steaming pig intestines next to bistros that serve haute cuisine. The SGEM's brand of good English is as bland as boiled potatoes. If the government has its way, Singapore will become a dish devoid of flavor. And I'm not talking cock...
...spirit. Stretching over seven decades, and narrated by three different characters, Lanchester's novel tells the story of Hong Kong: its murky past, its riotous rise, its uncertain present. Lanchester paints an exquisitely detailed picture of the city the Chinese call hueng gong, or fragrant harbor. But this landscape?devoid of human emotion?is oddly empty, much like his maps, which are clean and stark, with just a smattering of well-known buildings. Fragrant Harbour wants to be an intimate epic, but it's too rushed to be epic, too reticent to be intimate...
...live coral at the base of a reef's ecosystem. Fishermen use homemade fertilizer bombs, dynamite and even ordnance left over from World War II. The return is quick and lucrative, netting them many times over what they would make using conventional methods. But once bombed, the area is devoid of life for decades...