Word: leech
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...potential as a Black individual. They have adopted me, instructed me, and cared for me ever since I've been at this college. So have some of my white brothers and sisters--yet, Mr. Kilson, my friendship with these white people is not the result of a blood sucking leech relationship to people I want to "get something out of," but a true human relationship of sincerity and honesty between people, not Blacks and Whites. I make no pretense to the people through whom I wish to make connections; I need not be sneaky and underhanded simply because...
...able to come to cleave to, find the form for one's own life comprehensions" is also essential. To have that kind of confidence, a writer needs to be taken seriously and appreciated. Here Olsen is at her best. She painstakingly identifies the societal attitudes and practices that leech away a person's strength and sense of self before he or she ever gets to the stage of being an artist, and again after he or she does, against all odds, become a creator...
Lucy feels some aversion to Hacker, but she does warm to her new neighbor, Count Dracula. The caped leech has been visiting more regularly than anyone realizes--and not to borrow cups of sugar, either. It is only a matter of time before the heroic trinity of Seward, Hacker and Van Helsing realize what evil, half-human force they must fight in their quest to save Lucy. Two and a half acts later, they will nail...
Condon's 15th novel is a brittle comedy of bad manners. His prince is a dissolute leech on the public treasury who agrees to marry his German cousin only because Parliament will then begin to cover his royal debts. After meeting his intended, the prince whines that he is "going to have to live with that smelly thing for the rest of my life." In a characteristic gesture, he appoints his current mistress as Caroline's lady of the bedchamber. For her part, Caroline quickly takes the cut of the prince's jib and calls...
...almost ready to chalk the entire idea by Thanksgiving of his sophomore year, right after he Ken Nortoned some walking Walabbee from Milton in the jaw for snickering when he asked Paco to pass the Fritos at a party. Right then he realized he was a leech, like the guy in the Popeye cartoon who would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today, and who everybody knew was never even going to have enough money to pay for the relish. But still he was learning, he was watching these people, watching how they dressed and how they talked...