Word: gazing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pleasantly regular guitar chords. Yes, sometimes Travis played upon the minor chords too heavily, and sometimes they let their songs verge on sweet monotony, but there was a harmony, a beauty that could not be denied. Then in “12 Memories,” Travis brought their gaze to the world and saw their music fall apart. The darkness they saw upset their precious harmony. Songs like “Peace the Fuck Out” or “Re-offender” were mere propaganda pieces, just outgrowths of their politics. (Travis is an active opponent...
...looked at her with wonder. “Honey and milk are under thy tongue!” he gasped. “And your breasts are like—like—sweet honeydew, those two most perfect melons!” Roxanna blushed and cast down her gaze modestly. She had no idea what he was talking about. But as she gazed up at him through her eyelashes, the rays of the sun streaming behind her so Frederick blinked at the radiance. Wordlessly, she reached out her arms. “O, my America!” Frederick...
...should have been doing big, bold things with our majority." It's a point that Labour Cabinet Minister Shaun Woodward made more obliquely. Obama, he said, "is not only making history but learning from it." There's that H word again. But as the whole world turns its gaze on one man, the term seems entirely...
...soil is fertile here. They shall swell round and flourish. Soon they will look like...” He trailed off, making circles in the air in front of his chest. He watched Roxanna as though he were waiting for something. But she could not turn her gaze from the patch of garden that she had so carefully cultivated throughout the summer. Pumpkins. Pumpkins. Those lewd gourds! Oh, her sweet petunias! Alas, her darling rosebush! The almost indecently large seeds lay, garishly white and pale and smooth, like grubs, upon the fresh soil, not two feet from her flowers. With...
...Thousand Years of Good Prayers” follows a Chinese father, Mr. Shi (played by Henry O), who moves to America to help his grown daughter, Yilan, cope with a recent divorce. But Yilan, played by Feihong Yu, chafes under her father’s constant gaze. She resents his imposition and practice of the Chinese traditions that she has kept out of her apartment. Mr. Shi, fresh off the airplane, steps into a world unaffected by 9/11, where everyone he meets is friendly, kind, and eager to make conversation with a foreigner. Never is he met with a racist...