Word: driftful
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...serious drift in the standards of American education" is the issue at stake in his public battle with the Tufts University administration, Woodrow Wilson Sayre said in a telephone interview last night...
...asphalt-coated in the speech patterns of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Her voice is too nasal to be winningly melodic, but she uses it like a jazz instrument, improvising a jumping rhetoric of sound. She can bring a song phrase to a growling halt, or let it drift lyrically like a ribbon of smoke. Her lyrics seem not to have been learned by rote, but branded on her heart, and when she sings or dances, some elemental beat of energy and joy sends riffs through her long mandarin fingers, her rocking pelvis, and restless toes...
...homosexual who lives in the housing project that surrounds the Radcliffe mansion. Tolson lurks about the shrubbery like the hound of the Baskervilles, and sexual symbols parade through the paragraphs wearing sandwich signs. Superfluous minor characters become infected with the author's garrulity, deliver portentous sermons, and then drift off to irresolution. The dry prose becomes dewy. There are long, dare-taking sex scenes of the kind that, in he-she form, would seem overwritten in a Frank Yerby novel. Storey's tactic is not to ask the reader to tolerate homosexualism intellectually, but to acquiesce emotionally, thus...
While making more room for more people in the southeast, the government hopes also to slow the population drift there-and to prevent the increasing division of the country-by continuing to pressure industries to move north. In the past, this system has not worked too well; many industries have rescinded decisions to move when executives, often prodded by their wives, rebelled rather than leave the social and leisure advantages of London...
...their high-arched shoes ready for dancing with someone who cannot come." > Pity is the cruel emotion: "If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone...