Word: glared
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sunlight, of manicured suburban lawns and shaved ice swimming in gin. Not all of his fiction (five novels and more than 100 short stories) was set in the heat of the year, but his dominant landscape radiated warmth and possibilities. It was filled with earnest people blinking in the glare of sudden and temporary freedom, with winter a chilly reflex of conscience. Seaside houses stimulated the senses: "Lying in bed, you draw on your cigarette and the red glow lights an arm, a breast, and a thigh around which the world seems to revolve. These images are like the embers...
...unmistakable aura of Captain Nemo's Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. A misty crescent moon gives glimpses of child-size figures moving about in capes and cowls on a field expedition for earth flora. One of these figures wanders off and encounters the threatening glare of headlights and the honking of car horns. Before the errant extraterrestrial can return to his comrades, the spaceship abruptly ascends and little E.T. is left, alone and friendless, in an alien climate, where he can never flourish and may not survive...
Downtown Hollister could be mistaken for a Trailways comfort stop. Diagonal parking off San Benito Street allows pickup-truck owners to park comfortably and shop at shabby stores with dusty windows. Normally San Benito Street is dark by 9 o'clock, except for the glare of neon from car dealerships and fast-food kiosks. Two blocks away, in a tree-shaded neighborhood of modest bungalows, is the new county administration building. The old building, a Victorian pile put up in 1886, was destroyed in 1961. You guessed it: an earthquake and 400 aftershocks did the damage...
Although he is not altogether comfortable in the sudden glare of the limelight, Skutnik admits that fame has begun to grow on him. His wife says that he might even feel a twinge of regret when it passes. "When things started to calm down a few days ago, he said to me, sort of half joking: 'Gee, they've forgotten me already...
...symbolize and intensify our collective hallucinations. In a republic pasted together from factions, only the lowest common denominators can supply the glue, so the delusion runs. Video games exist to make money for their owners; their appeal made as broad and base as possible. Ironically, the simple pictures that glare so phosphorescently will sponsor only further fragmentation, not greater unity...