Word: glabrous
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...people with youthful features to be attractive - and unsettling. Appreciating neotenic features isn't the same as being sexually attracted to children, but at least one study has found that average, college-age heterosexual males and child molesters share remarkably similar (and deeply neotenic) attractions: high cheekbones, unwrinkled eyes, glabrous skin...
...after the dark night comes...what? How much more powerful then will be the effect - next week? next month? soon enough - when Gore, resplendent, clean-shaven, glabrous in his glory, returns from the dead! Radiant! Reborn! (He hopes...
...calls for baroque extravagance and Berger provides plenty. Esoteric words ("canescing," "superfetation," "glabrous") gambol freely with lowlife slang. Natalie Novotny, Wren's girl friend, refuses his offer to pay for dinner because he has already picked up the Czech. Objects and people are described in loopy, gargantuan locutions. A chandelier becomes a "hippodrome for silverfish"; an incidental character has "the dental terrain of a boar...
...bushy tree . . . with a short and usually crooked trunk . . . stout spreading rigid branches beset with slender spine-like branchlets, bright red and glabrous when they first appear, soon turning green, and in their first winter grey tinged with red, covered with a slight bloom . . . and ultimately dark brown tinged with...
...Conductors Koussevitzky, Beecham and Walter were all in their 60s, and Conductor Toscanini was 75. The directors decided on a younger man, hesitated over the name of Dimitri Mitropoulos, glabrous Greek conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, and finally gave the job to the less brilliant, much tougher, 49-year-old Rodzinski...