Word: habitant
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...they have stayed on it six months or longer. Thousands of addicts rehabilitated with methadone abandon crime as a way of life. The view of addicts who have managed to resume a near-normal existence is summed up by Pam Smith, 46, a Manhattanite who once supported her heroin habit with prostitution: "I'm a human being again...
...very good. They've sort of made a habit of sending men to the U.S. Nationals," captain Anders Carlsson said yesterday...
There are other criticisms one could make from a literary point of view. Very few of Lessing's characters get off without one or another dehumanizing analysis of their personalities. Lessing has an annoying habit of randomly doing away with articles and pronouns. She occasionally writes a very bad sentence (for instance: "The flight was called and he was airborne, floating west inside grey cloud that was his inner state,"). But these are aesthetic blights, and none so damaging-or so interesting-as this inability of hers to write convincing, let alone good, fiction about politics...
...peculiar she didn't join him. She's had an abortion Carter blackmailed her into. Kate, the only person she loves, is locked away. Maria and company are out of hope, and ambition is a lousy substitute for feelings. Maria's are numb, anyway. She goes on out of habit. When, finally, nothing matters, the B.Z.'s ask why stay alive. The Maria Wyeths answer...
...kitchen, dining and living rooms-from bedrooms by a central hall. In his rectangular "long" houses, a central kitchen and bathrooms divide living from sleeping quarters. Hardly a small modern house now exists in the U.S. that does not owe some debt to Breuer's sensitivity to human habit...