Word: habitant
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...this high level of credibility. For example, Donella Saunders, from the same story, is hollow and superficial. A Guyanese woman with a high-class English background, she is self-consciously eccentric and her air of "ravaged elegance" is rather unconvincing. Even worse, many of the characters have a distressing habit of prattling in a stereotyped patois reminiscent of Uncle Tom's Cabin: "Oh, God, Selma, how is I goin' get money for fix me teeth...
...truly cable hungry may be turned away by the expense--$16.95 per month for the basic service plus a hookup charge, plus an extra nine dollars for each premium channel. But some are willing to sacrifice everything--including furniture--to satisfy their habit...
Harris says that her openness about her habit has unleashed a torrent of confessions from others who admit to finding themselves in circumstances similar...
...sheer size and wealth is sure to dominate any new union. Some intellectuals are already worried about the eclipse of the Supreme Soviet, the union-wide parliament, and the concentration of what central power exists in jerry-built executive bodies. Effective power has flowed largely to Yeltsin, whose habit of issuing frequent and sweeping decrees is making liberals apprehensive...
...expensive habit to get into," Flynn explains. "We'll all be broke by Christmas...