Word: joying
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...ubiquitous blackberries, cell phones, iPods, gameboys and the Internet. We're using them to chat with people we've never met who don't even use their real names. We're typing things like LOL, c u later, and using a parenthesis and a colon to demonstrate joy, which I find awkward and desensitizing. I'm not an old fashioned guy, but the subtext is that over time it's possible that we may get so clad in electronics and isolation and distance and desensitization that we will not only lose our innocence, but we won't even think...
...real fans understand deep down that their team and its fate are simultaneously both important and meaningless. It's this contradiction that is part of the agony, the ecstasy, the religious-like joy of being a fan. The leap of faith in unison with thousands of others that what you're all watching matters profoundly. Healthy sports lovers care passionately not because they truly think sport is a matter of life and death, but despite the fact they know it's not. When fanaticism starts hurting people, killing them, even, that contradiction vanishes and so does all the joy...
...freshmen find out their house assignments tomorrow the new residents of Eliot, Adams, and others, will no doubt rejoice with their newfound house communities. Yet for some, this joy will be tempered. These are the few, the unfortunate, the “Quadded”—students forced to spend the remainder of their college careers in that other campus down Garden Street...
When Christiana Lackner hit a three to give the Crimson a 7-3 lead, I felt joy...
...this darkness intermittently cut through by the explosion of fireworks from Astley’s circus, “burning bright in the night sky.”The explosions can have a terribly destructive effect but they can also bring peals of laughter. There are moments of joy, then, in “Burning Bright,” amidst seemingly interminable sorrow.“I don’t see why there has to be just the one or t’other,” Jem suggests, referring to the binary of heaven and hell, but also...