Word: groaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bleating contestant in the eye. He gets up, walks over and sticks a finger into a sheep's chest to see how firm it is. If firm, the two dozen spectators murmur approval: if the judge's finger sinks deep into the sheep's chest, a groan goes up. After half an hour of prodding and measuring, groaning and murmuring and bleating, the judge straightens up and signals for the Suffolk Sheep Queen to come out and distribute ribbons to the winners. She strolls out in a red gingham dress, stepping carefully around the manure...
Fever. Kate Brown and the reader, accordingly, must face the shock of age, the loss of beauty, with dramatic speed. And if that means that the plot must groan like a Paris elevator, or the prose sometimes has to scuff along in rundown slippers and an old dressing gown, Doris Lessing has never been one to take the cosmetics of fiction seriously...
...Indians, and burrowed into a cave, leaving his diary of reminiscences and prophecies as testimony to the historicity of counterculture. Historicity or no, Joshua Aarons lends the author an opportunity to affect a Victorian prose style, demonstrating that Richmond can in fact do more with his pen than mumble, groan, and bump through the motions of sex and stoned-out soliliquies...
...going to fool around with you. If you want to go back to Siberia..."). In the old Hollywood versions, women appeared only in flashbacks. In The First Circle they are present as warders whose proximity causes some inmates to writhe on their bunks of an evening and groan, "Give me a woman...
...great affection for their father as a man, and an unshakable confidence in his invincibility as a politician-they have no doubt that he will win in November. But they enjoy his human fallibilities as well. George, they say, has a "corny sense of humor" that causes them to groan more than laugh. They also imply his taste in movies runs to schmaltz: he has seen Doctor Zhivago six times, they claim. Ann in particular worries that in spite of his morning exercises ("jumping jacks") and his nightly bowl of Wheaties, Father George "has a tendency to be too thin...