Word: exclaims
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...legacy kids. Indeed, I used to be so opposed to the very concept of collegiate legacy, that I refused to apply to this very school. “I’ll never know if I got in on my own virtues!” I’d exclaim. “And no one’s going to respect me if they find out that my name’s on a damn building...
...punctuation-less lines that rush into one another. Robinson can sustain the tension of a phrase over several lines, even through self-interruption. In “From this miserable mutineer a stutter, / for when we are reading Dostoevsky in caves,” the narrator starts to grandly exclaim “My—” but breaks it with a wistful aside “(Has it been a hoax? The man on Belton Street selling poetry…)” before concluding, with a subtly shifted emphasis, “My fellows...
...young girls.Suppose Fulla was hijacked by radical elements of the Islamic world. Suppose they, on top of the materialism inherent in the doll, had her espouse all sorts of the craziest ideas one witnesses in the Middle East, only in the lingo of Barbie.So just as Talking Barbie might exclaim, “I hate math!” and appear trussed up in the most immodest garb imaginable, a talking Fulla doll might exclaim, as the Oct. 13 Salient’s parody advertisement imagined it, “I like shopping!” Yet, before going...
...secret places of his heart starched cuffs and high collars, a company with "transcontinental" in its name, pince-nez, muttonchops, and dourvisaged exclamations like "There are laws against that sort of behavior, sirrah." The trouble with America today is that there are too few men with dour visages who exclaim "sirrah" and too many who skip, leak, jam, run out quickly and can be replaced for 69. Robert E.L. Richards Westfield...
...beachside brawl and a demonstration that this is how it’s done in Orange County. If you want Marxist class warfare, we’ll show you the poor kid who steals cars and can’t even tie a tie and let you all exclaim together: “Chino...