Word: mortalized
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...late and missed the explanation, can't keep his eyes off of me. Unlike the bold stares of yesterday, however, his stare comes in spurts, as if he's trying not to let me see him stare. Almost worse than invisible, I feel like a shrine, too holy for mortal eyes...
...comparison to the living scene before my eyes: a silken shimmer of pastel clouds clinging in tendrils to the tops of mountains, an endless dance of wind and fog that alternately revealed and concealed subtle changes in the dark hills beneath. How futile it must feel for a mere mortal to try to capture that, I thought...
...crazed nannies. Armed with video-game joysticks and TV remotes--a funny word, with its false promise that it keeps you at a distance from whatever excitements it bounces you through--kids are whiplashed from one bit of blood sport to another, from South Park and Jerry Springer to Mortal Kombat on Nintendo. Ordinary kids may be a bit desensitized to violence. More-susceptible kids are pushed toward a dangerous mental precipice...
...proceeded to eat it down,and I noticed that my fellow diners were pickingpolitely at it but weren't eating much. But Ifigured I'd eat it, so I ate most of the rice. ButI didn't realize until a week later that I hadcommitted an absolute mortal error, I had horriblyoffended my host. Because, of course, you're notsupposed to eat the rice It's there as aconclusion. To eat any more than a little bit isto signal that you're hungry and that the guy wasa cheapskate, and he didn't give you enough food...
...cold impersonality. As I walked by, I noticed a large, and perhaps more noticeable, extremely diverse group of people all standing completely still, their attention fixed on something I could not see. As I drew closer, the situation became clear. A dog and a squirrel were locked in a mortal struggle...