Word: fleshed
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This is where you start thinking about the insanity of war. About the false sense of security that two metal plates and Kevlar webbing offer when they are presented in glossy catalogs. About how vulnerable flesh is to metal projectiles. It wasn't my life that flashed before my eyes, but all the descriptions of wounds I'd heard from the buddies of injured soldiers. Faces blown off, shattered shoulders and mangled limbs - all the points exposed by the limits of Kevlar. What is more insane than running 200 meters through gunfire to reach the safety...
...lacking in lacrosse or any other sport that has a tool—it’s just a piece of wood, it’s just a piece of graphite,” Cissie says. “The horses are warm-blooded, hot-breathing masses of flesh and blood that are here because they love their jobs...
...happening in the polo match: the light pattering of pony feet as they scamper around a throw-in, the thunderous stampeding down the field when everyone is chasing a ball that’s strayed far ahead, or the clanking of mallets and buckling of side boards against horse flesh when the ball falls into the corners...
...thing, many young "vegetarians" continue to eat the white meat of defenseless chickens (25% in the current study) as well as the flesh of those adorable animals known as fish (46%), even when they are butchered and served up raw as sushi. And in a 2001 study in the Journal of Adolescent Health, researchers found that the most common reason teens gave for vegetarianism was to lose weight or keep from gaining it. Adolescent vegetarians are far more likely than other teens to diet or to use extreme and unhealthy measures to control their weight, studies suggest. The reverse...
...AIDS affliction. Roy is not a likeable character, and when the veins in his neck are prominent and his hoarseness palpable, Glaser makes him seem like the devil. From obnoxiously loud eating habits to a quick instinct to stand upright after being shoved, Glaser adds touching subtleties that flesh out the height of Roy’s Napoleon complex. The unraveling of the Pitts, the play’s Morman heterosexual couple, is perhaps not as powerfully presented as the story of Louis and Prior, but it is effective nonetheless. Alex R. Breaux ’09 often displays...