Word: overgrown
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Most of us are distorted in a way to make us less attractive than is possible; these women are too attractive for their bodies—they’ve overgrown their potential and as such lose their human dimension that makes them understandable to mediocre pricks like myself...
...slicked down over his head-refuses to grant us permission to travel the western fork of the highway, even though construction is nearly finished. Mr. Truong surprises us by talking the guard at the government checkpoint into letting us through. The road lies between a stream and a cliff overgrown with ferns. It offers some of the most stunning scenery we've seen, but the construction workers-who insist we join them in a noontime toast of rice wine-are less charmed by it: two of their colleagues are bedridden with malaria. There are other dangers: since the roadwork began...
...between humans and dogs. Cat lovers and the pet averse will just roll their eyes at such dogophilia. I can't help it. Chester was always at your foot or your hand, waiting to be petted and stroked, played with and talked to. His beautiful blocky head, his wonderful overgrown puppy's body, his baritone bark filled every corner of house and heart...
...wasn't going to let either money or the possibility of spinal dislocation stop me exploring the ravaged glory of this country. And so we struck out for Spean Praptos?Cambodia's most venerable bridge?and the overgrown temples of Beng Mealea. This is a round-trip of less than 140 kilometers, but in Cambodia it's a bone-numbing, dawn-to-dusk odyssey...
...funny as the ones on TV!--"is really just a sentence." In one episode, we meet Joe Mozian, a stay-at-home dad from Old Greenwich, Conn., who seems to have learned how to be a husband and father by watching THE KING OF QUEENS. A relentlessly manic overgrown kid, he opens the episode with the one line you never want a show about a pudgy white man to begin with: "Hey, want to hear the new rap I wrote?" The network brings in a professional comedy writer to observe the Mozians, and she quickly concludes, "He is as close...