Word: lashing
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While the critics lash away (and rightly so) at Simone de Beauvoir's new book, Force of Circumstance, let us instead consider her indisputably great accomplishments. The Second Sex, de Beauvoir's feminist manifesto (first published in 1949), will be remembered with love by millions of people when that longwinded autobiography is just a history graduate student's optional reading...
Their lines lash, writhe and slither like snakes conjured out of enchanted paint pots. Their color is alive with serpentine swirls, and beneath the agitated surface can be glimpsed figures festooned like confetti-draped masqueraders. Not French, though living in Paris, and not American, for all the superficial resemblances to U.S. abstract expressionism, the artists are known by the acronym COBRA, derived from the first letters of the capital cities of their birth: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam (see color...
...they'll lash in hammock, drop me deep...
...Association committee so much has been a long time in the making. But despite all the contention, and all the criticisms, when the judicial board hands down its decision, it will probably rule for Sentencing Sam. The New York State Association of Trial Lawyers, familiar enough with the lash of the Leibowitz tongue, declares that his "wisdom, courage and ability to maintain decorum in his courtroom have not diminished with the years." Judge Leibowitz, says a lawyer who has been one of his severest critics, "guards against unjust acquittal as well as unjust conviction. He's the toughest judge...
They brought "The Light" And with the light She saw her children Led in chains Their wearied steps Quickened by The lash of Cain...