Word: shapely
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...natural and proper center of life, he loses a certain amount of reliability. Even die-hard Updike fans may have difficulty stomaching reflections like the following: "When my erection... had attained full stretch, with my left hand cupped nurturingly about my balls, I admired it--the inverted lavender heart-shape of the glans, the majestic tensile column with its marblelike blue-green veins and triple-shafted underside. Stout and faithful fellow! My life's companion.... Nothing as solid and rea... [He is] my best self..." The physicality and vividness of Updike's writing are great assets, but I, at least...
...neared the end of her first season--an exhausting an exhilarating drill in new equipment and team relations--Mayer felt her dream taking shape...
...once. A self-described "people person," she was cheerful and extroverted throughout the interview (perhaps it was the Mountain Dew and the menthols) despite the tremendous outpouring of energy her set required and an exhausting tour schedule. Deal needs eight hours of sleep to keep her voice in shape and related humorously that it went out at home in Dayton because her mother woke her up early for mother-daughter bonding...
Such a dim view of the human capacity for flexibility is both unfortunate and unwarranted. Cultural and ethnic factors certainly do shape the beliefs, attitudes and experiences of all people--even Harvard students--but not to the radical, virtually inescapable extent to which the staff imagines...
...beginning of its life, the "Pistol Star" (so named for the peculiar shape of its surrounding nebula) was 200 times more massive than...