Word: lurching
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...combines the art of knightly jousting with the bloodlust of pro wrestling. As the Red Knight attacks Blue with his mace and Blue responds with his sword, a spectator cries out, "Your mutha wears chain mail!" Schlock: Gatorland Zoo with its Gator Jumparoo show, in which thousand-pound alligators lurch out of the water to snap their jaws around dead chickens suspended from a wire. For connoisseurs of arcane Americana, the Orlando area also offers an Alligatorland Safari Zoo (feed the animals with Purina Monkey Chow), a Reptile World Serpentarium ("Time your visit to be present during...
...first kiss, it seems, is a "one-celled organism" that evolves "into something rather grander--a bird of paradise, for example." Falling in love involves "a kind of inward lurch," as if one "were having a dream about falling off a ledge." Adultery, despite its dazzle and heat, gets polished off as "limited doting, restricted thrall...
Mainzer said the government does not have a sufficient policy for helping the growing number of transients. "We continue to lurch from one crisis to the next," said Mainzer, calling for greater communication between shelters and the department of mental health...
...talking blue skies, flowers, shorts spontaneous games of frisbee and yes even temperatures rising into the 80's Even though I realize that this is all very well and good for our emotional well being, our spring fever finally cured, it does leave me in rather a lurch for an ending. Well, all I can say is enjoy spring while it lasts. Because knowing New England, it will be summer in a few days And then you'll be sorry...
...Jolly," "Rubenesque" and the like have long been abandoned. A Washington writer scored by praising a woman's "Wagnerian good looks," which is far more polite than saying she is not bad looking for a massive Brunnhilde. The disinfecting compliment is particularly deft. As all practitioners know, a corrective lurch toward balance is the hallmark of good journalese. After all, journalism is a crucially important field that attracts high-minded, multitalented professionals, arguably the finest in the land...