Word: disappearers
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Instead, if I see a spider in my bedroom, I'll make a little agreement with it. I'll inform it (sometimes telepathically, sometimes out loud) that I'm about to leave the room. I'll warn it to disappear from sight. And usually, when I return, I won't see it anymore. I'll pretend it was never there...
When the circus tent opened, there sat a row of white men, some of great stature, who made every effort to disappear behind the thin silhouette of their microphones. Here were career public servants, never camera shy, being forced to ask questions like "Professor Hill, now that you have read the FBI report, you can see that it contains no reference to any mention of Judge Thomas' private parts or sexual prowess. Why didn't you tell the FBI about that?" Having begun the week under fire for their sexism, the Senators ended the week accused of acting like...
...camera is key. When photographer Arthur Elgort meets a young model for the first time, he wonders if she will "transfer" onto a photograph. "She's cute in her little jeans," he explains, "but when we pile the Givenchy and Ungaro on this 20-year-old, the girl could disappear before our eyes...
...with the entrance of a pink-clad ballerina scattering confetti. Various Ig Nobel dignitaries followed, holding placards proclaiming, "Save the Rat," "Recovering Mathematician," and "The 2nd Point of Light." The dignitaries paid homage to the King and Queen of Swedish Meatballs, and watched the Sacred Torch Bearer enter and disappear...
...moderate or receptive to others' ideas: Since standards are worthless, he has explicitly announced that he sees no need to live by any theory he may advocate. Such excesses are what prompted the anti-PC movement in the first place, and it would be naive to expect them to disappear just because liberal professors have started a formal organization...