Word: outwitted
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There are surrogate forms of immortality: the continuity of history, the permanence of art, the biological force of sex. These can serve well enough to give life a purpose and a sense of fulfillment. But they cannot outwit death, and they are hardly satisfactory substitutes for the still persistent human hope that what happens here in threescore years and ten is not the whole story...
Amado reads his characters in depth. There is no facile division into good guys and bad guys, and everyone's motives are mixed. The lawyer, Virgilio, who helps Horacio outwit the Badarós, also seduces Horacio's pretty wife. And spade-bearded Sinhó Badaró, who has arranged the killing of many men, still agonizes over each decision-in fact, his soul searching destroys the efficiency of his best gunman, Negro Damião. As in U.S. westerns, the land is the real hero, breeding men as luxuriant, lavish and cruel as itself. Presumably spurred...
...been to jail and, if anything, I have qualms about it. In South Africa we live most of our lives outside the law, something inevitable in a country whose legislation affects living with one's own parents, drinking, looking for work, sex, and other human habits. How well you outwit the law contributes to your status in the community. People would think you were crazy if you lived a completely law-abiding life...
...teacher, I have had a few experiences with students who cheat, and have concluded that we, their teachers, force these students to cheat by placing too much emphasis on tests. Do tests necessarily have to be contests in which the teacher on one hand is doing his best to outwit the student and the student on the other hand is doing his best to outguess the teacher...
...Sierra Leone dating is something of a sport, to outwit one's very vigilant parents. An Egyptian boy agreed, adding that class time was prime dating time, since a couple could go off and return, making believe that they had been in school...