Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this time of year, I confess) were about to come true. The sounds were full of emotion, but unable to abandon my verbal vocabulary, I found myself furiously scribbling poor analogy after poor analogy on my program in a vain attempt to translate the sounds and dancing into a familiar syntax...
...different forms and topics, tied loosely together as the thoughts of Mary Oliver, poet. To a reader unfamiliar with Oliver's work, Winter Hours could seem insufficiently structured, its components only loosely related and its subject matter too concerned with Oliver's personal writing experience. But to one familiar with Oliver's poems, the book is a valuable window into the author's character and motivation. And regardless of the coherence of the book as a whole, each of the pieces in Winter Hours, considered separately, is thought-provoking and beautiful...
...show the guard the contents of my backpack and raise my arms. For the next minute I enjoy a rough full-body massage as he pats me down looking for automatic weapons. Next to me, Aaron is not doing so well. I hear the familiar snap of latex and avert my eyes...
...Will that be black or white?" rings familiar for coffee drinkers, but don't be surprised to be asked the same question by a bartender. Blavod, a new vodka from London, remains as odorless and tasteless as its peers...
Blake easily offed Beardsley on Sunday, 6-4, 6-1, and looks to carry his No. 1 ranking into May. Blake, familiar with Simik, will try to capitalize on his every weakness...