Word: devours
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...breathe, the results can be breathtaking. When one dominates, the results are tedious. There are a number of songs on “Hold Time” where one instrument is prevalent to detrimental effect. The title track, for example, is completely awash in lush but lumbering strings that devour the song’s hammer dulcimer and synthesizer. After a couple of minutes, the song has the same effect as sitting in a lecture hall without A/C on a hot and humid day. It’s stifling and sleep-inducing. “Hold Time?...
...lots of construction, but it’s all for the Law School with their big cranes,” O’Connell said. “There were five small and human businesses in that block, and the behemoth is going to devour them all.” Since 2003, the university has approved several construction projects in its Northwest campus, including plans for a large academic complex. For instance, the Everett Street Garage and the Wyeth Hall dorms were bulldozed in summer 2007 to accommodate a new academic complex on Mass. Ave. Associate Vice President for Harvard...
...their fawning over Obama, the "mainstream media"--if the author removed that modifier, this book would be a pamphlet--have left their credibility "in tatters," Goldberg writes. Of course, just saying something doesn't make it so. But that won't matter to Goldberg's readers, who will devour his latest with gusto...
...seemingly simple--and highly entertaining--questions. Does expensive wine really taste better than the cheap stuff, or are we biased by the price? Why do we spend more with a credit card than we do when paying with cash? How can we simultaneously desire a healthy diet and quickly devour the slice of chocolate cake in front of us? And what does it really mean when we experience a sudden, inexplicable gut feeling about something? While we can't always control (or understand, for that matter) what our brain tells us, Lehrer writes, we can learn when to rely...
...among the local Native Americans (who in movies like this are never wrong) is that Edward and his family are vampires. That doesn't stop Bella from falling into a love whose toxicity is its lure, just as Edward is risking being with someone he's severely tempted to devour. Her nearness is like vampire heroin; his love for her has become his religion and his sin. Edward knows he should just say no, but, as he tells her, "I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore...