Word: propellent
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...thing about the motorcycle accident is that I didn’t see it coming, and I always thought that I saw it coming. It’s the same theme as Cormac’s book,” he says, in reference to the arbitrary incidents that propel the story forward. “It’s what happens to Llewellyn.”Despite the film’s dark and bleak tone, Brolin remembers his time on set with the other actors as a positive experience...
...Senator has to sell the Afghanistan military operation, which could propel him toward the presidency. It seemed to me that you had John Edwards' smile down perfectly. Then I thought maybe Edwards took it from you in Top Gun. [Others laugh...
...Drew (five years, $70 million) and Japanese pitching phenom Daisuke Matsuzaka (six years, $52 million), just like the damn Yankees usually do. These players, however, did produce in the post-season: Drew's grand slam against the Cleveland Indians in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series helped propel the Sox past the Tribe; Matsuzaka's clutch pitching, and hitting, in Game 3 against the Colorado Rockies helped Boston complete the sweep...
...Tradescant Sr., the former royal gardener to King Charles I. Tradescant Sr. continued to collect exotic plants and birds, helping to spawn England’s 17th-century “Cabinet of Curiosity” movement, a craze that would endure well into the Victorian era, and later propel Harvard’s faux dodo into existence.Tradescent Sr. willed his collection to his son. By then the menagerie of oddities had grown so large that the son hired a curator and former attorney, Elias Ashmole. Historians have speculated Ashmole became envious of the collection and connived to inherit...
...austere; their free verse structure mirrors that lack of order and refinement in the world to which Pinsky is reacting. His diction is carefully designed to extract maximum emotion with minimal effort, and allusions to current events permeate the pages. Most poems are composed of short stanzas that propel the poetry at a fast clip and reflect the spontaneous nature of Pinsky’s thoughts. Pinsky’s confusion emanates from each page as he jumps from idea to idea with each successive couplet. Each poem, he writes, “is acting dumb...in a smart...