Word: labyrinthian
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...seems that every day, I discover some new activity I cannot do. On Sunday night, I braved the stereotypes of labyrinthian corridors and found myself in Mather House for dinner. To my surprise, there was real ice cream being served. I happily approached the gallon container, swept up the scooper, dug in and screamed. We don't all scream for ice cream...
...around a character so resolutely insidious. Even J.R. Ewing would be impressed by Jim Profit's cunning (and Dallas was more an ensemble piece). Played with a slippery chill by Adrian Pasdar, Profit is a young man of untrammeled ambition and unfathomable turpitude. What he's up against, the labyrinthian universe of Big Business, may be just as pernicious...
While the CUE changes are complicated, the thrust of the proposal is to simplify the current labyrinthian requirements, mostly by taking all of a students courses into account, not just the two thirds of non-departmental courses now under consideration. They also toughen the honors rules in a number of other ways...
Absolutist that he is, he devises a plan "to settle the question of God once and for all." He will go into a labyrinthian mountain cave and simply sit until he receives a sign. What he gets instead is a toothache, which drives him out of hiding and into the care of Allison, a young schizophrenic who has escaped from a sanitarium and is living in a greenhouse right beneath the cave. Emerging from his vigil, Will Barrett goes through the glass roof and literally falls in love...
...subterranean galleries were used, were not made until the time of the Romans, who mined everything from Spanish silver to British iron and Near Eastern copper. Rothenberg's discovery just about destroys that theory. From the stone hammers, bronze chisels and a cooking pot found in the labyrinthian tunnels of the Negev mine, he concludes that the mine dates back to 1400 B.C. -near the end of the Bronze Age and more than a millennium before Rome's large-scale mining endeavors...