Word: frequentative
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...true: talking about the debate with friends over the next couple of days, there were points where my responses differed widely from theirs. One of Sosolimited’s tricks, for instance, was to stack the candidates’ answers on top of each other, lining up their most frequently used words so you could see their context. John McCain may seem to have a smoother delivery style, but it turns out that his is less fluent than Barack Obama’s. McCain would often stop in the middle of a sentence or leave out a verb, while Obama?...
...with limpid eyes. “It must be hard to be so studious,” she murmured.“You have no idea how hard it is,” said Frederick.Meanwhile, in the drawing room, Felicity was entertaining Prince Filippo, who had become her most frequent visitor. The Prince’s manners perplexed Felicity—no, mostly it was his Italian accent, which was so thick it was sometimes hard to understand exactly what he was saying.As the Prince discoursed on the contemporary arts, Felicity doodled on one of her tables with a piece...
...guided by a psychologist who emailed her once a week (e-therapy may also include text messaging and access to private online forums). "Even though I never met her," Fogarty says, "I found her very understanding, perfectly accepting of how I felt." Though she sometimes longed for more frequent emails, in her own notes to the therapist, "I was able to write exactly what I wanted to say, rather than speaking to someone and it not coming out quite the way you meant...
...years, I have gone to Shea myself to experience in and through it the frequent futility and fitful success of the New York Mets on summer nights when the air is alive with heat and possibility, and the world takes on the ethereal glow that only baseball on a summer night can give...
...proportions are oppressively regular and unimaginative, its seats are painted garish and clashing colors, its sightlines—a vestige from the stadium’s original design as a dual use football/baseball facility—are all bad. Sounds of the game are drowned out by the frequent roar of commercial jets taking off at nearby LaGuardia Airport, which in some sense is merciful, since the Shea theme song, “Meet the Mets,” is possibly the worst piece of music ever written in the long history of music writing...