Word: fleshly
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...that need for physical contact, turning us into full-blown tactile bacchanalians. Nursing alone is a powerful reinforcer. The mechanics of animal nursing can be a utilitarian business, with wobbly-legged newborns standing up to drink from Mom as if she were a spigot. Human nursing, by contrast, requires flesh-on-flesh cuddling. What's more, a mother's metabolism ensures that this contact occurs more or less all day long. Anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, professor emeritus at the University of California at Davis, points out that human beings produce very dilute breast milk, which necessitates frequent nursing sessions...
...find there is nothing but godliness in marriage. To be sure, when I consider marriage, only the flesh seems to be there. Yet my father must have slept with my mother, made love to her, and they were nevertheless godly people. All the patriarchs and prophets did likewise. The longing of a man for a woman is God's creation." MARTIN LUTHER, theologian...
...wing, and she agreed to type the story out because I thought it should be immortalized. And the headmaster discovered that I was giving work to his secretary and flogged me for it. He had a riding crop, and it made a hell of a cut into the flesh of the bum." A pause for amused reflection. "I don't know whether he flogged me because I was a rival employer or whether he didn't like the story...
This seems like a different man from the real estate and casino tycoon who tried to avoid the "barbaric" flesh-on-flesh greeting even when in 2000 he considered a Reform Party run for President. But that was just politics. Today he has a reality-TV show to promote, a show that--like his luxury high-rises encrusted in marble and gilt and christened with big gold Ts--he promises will be bigger and badder, brassier yet classier, altogether Donald Trumpier, than anything else out there. In The Apprentice (NBC, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.; premieres Thursday...
...axiomatic that good journalists make lousy novelists. When they turn their writerly talents toward fiction, most reporters?particularly foreign correspondents?are undermined by the very expertise that lends authority to their dispatches. Rather than creating flesh-and-blood characters, they often produce stick figures representing various factions and points of view, who hold forth in preachy, predictable allegories. Yet in The Spice Garden, his debut novel, Michael Vatikiotis, editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, has constructed an engrossing narrative of mass hysteria and mob violence set in the Maluku archipelago, Indonesia's spice islands, during the horrific bloodbath that...