Word: recoils
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...somewhere else in the city. Over the years, several other countries (including the Netherlands and Sweden) have got tantalizingly close to congestion charging, only to abandon the idea when public antagonism became too terrifying. People will accept paying higher charges for daytime phone calls or primetime movies, but they recoil at paying for roads they thought of as free. Of course, if Livingstone's plan fails, it will be another generation before congestion charging is tried again in Europe. So it's too bad that London is the test case. Its public transit system was creaking and fragile and stretched...
...indeed, Roberts is to be commended for transforming a storyline aimed at grade-schoolers into a mature tale that cautiously approaches epic stature. Considering the fantastical premise, he constructs a surprisingly realistic tale of war; one can smell the cordite and the carnage, revel in small victories, and recoil in horror at a world so devastated by conflict. The cartoons ignored that aspect to focus instead on cute Saturday-morning storylines that could be resolved in a half-hour. With _Eugenesis_, Roberts succeeds in exposing the full terrifying scope of a war that has raged for millions of years. Powerplays...
...hunters to find meaning and assert their power, by going out into the woods to harvest meat for their families? Or was it just men being barbaric and wanting to kill things? Was the violence and the physicality of the shot—the roar, the recoil of the stock against the shoulder, the impact with the deer, and the deer’s falling to the ground—a way for the paraplegic hunters to reconnect, to tap into some sustaining life force? I was not sure how I felt about this trade...
...unlimited promise of youth and the very, very limited navigational capabilities of recent campus arrivals. Oh, to be young, full of liquor and out for a good time. And, oh, to be following along. FM invites its readers, young and old, to reminisce or learn, rehash or recoil as we gambol down the cobblestone streets of Cambridge—kind of a bitch in heels—in search of nocturnal tomfoolery. Frolic with FM and these fun-loving first-years...
...still sends him into an angry funk. In his new book he is also consumed by a world burdened with radio personalities, invasive kudzu, tormented anchovies and boring, phony jobs. There are writers who have a signature mood. What Palahniuk has is a signature posture: recoil...