Word: palling
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...interest in trying to counteract the subtle pall of racism, which students interviewed say pervades the campus, sometimes becomes a burden, many Black students say. Dispelling stereotypes and disproving claims that many Black students earned admission because of affirmative action are constant--and exhausting--endeavors...
...attraction of the rather self-pitying lyrics may begin to pall after a while. It is sometimes difficult to take Morrissey's appealingly depressed schoolboy voice very seriously, even when he is uttering outrageously repulsive sentiments like: "...by rights you should be bludgeoned in your...
EVERY AUGUST THE EARTH PASSES THROUGH THE orbital path of Comet Swift-Tuttle. If the comet ever happened to be there, the 10-km-wide (6-mile) chunk of ice and rock could slam into the planet, carving an enormous crater, generating tidal waves and throwing up a worldwide pall of dust that could block sunlight for months. Plants would be largely wiped out, and so would many species that ultimately depend on plants for food -- including, perhaps, the human race. Just such a disaster, many scientists believe, killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A smaller strike...
With its solemn narration and nostalgic tone, "A River Runs Through It" resembles that sub-genre of the "American tragedy" that seems to be very popular in high school literature courses - stories like John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" or S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders." A pall hangs over much of the film as the audience tries to guess which of the two brothers will meet an untimely...
Fifty yards away at the Pix-Pall Hardwarestore, talk was of fuse boxes and the recession...