Word: fleetingness
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In the second movement, described by Yannatos as Lear’s lamentation of his misfortune, the king begs his daughter Cordelia for forgiveness. The movement was immediately less agitated and more sad than the first. Trumpets and winds pierced the somber mood with high notes like pangs of distress...
The mushroom cloud was the symbol under which the mid-20th century was baptized. As the last great global tumult, the Second World War represented the convergence and the stratification of ideologies. But what hoisted itself above all of these intersecting faiths—above fascism, communism, capitalism, democracyâ?...
We're doomed. No matter what we do, something is going to get us eventually--a comet already whizzing toward Earth, maybe, or exploding methane gas unleashed by global warming. De Villiers takes a virtual flight around the globe to examine the natural threats to our existence, from earthquakes to...
'Bawdy jokes are O.K. if they're really good.' ANTONIN SCALIA, Supreme Court Justice, during a hearing on the use of "fleeting expletives" on radio and TV
Well, mystery abounds. What's next for the group? Was the point really just to give New Yorkers a chuckle or trick them into thinking for few fleeting minutes that U.S. involvement in Iraq had ended? By midday, the groups posted a video account of the prank, with interviews with...