Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...running for student council president in 12th grade. I practiced in front of the mirror every evening until I could recite it by heart. I picked out the perfect outfit: an off-white twinset, a flowing knee-length navy blue skirt, navy pumps, and nude control-top sheer panty-hose. I was holding my head high, trying to look confident while walking onto the podium. To calm myself, I tried to imagine everyone in the audience in their underwear. People started giggling and snickering, and I didn't know why, until I realized that THEY could see MY underwear...
Although the notion of a man optimizing his room's sex potential may pin him as "sketchy," the sheer extravagance of these setups is impressive, testifying to an extensive creativity fueled by a powerful sex drive...
...Indian figure, writhed and twisted across the stage to a silent rhythm maintained only by the stomping of feet and the slapping of palms. The backdrop was illuminated by sprays of colored light, shifting shape and texture with each transition in the choreography. The audience was overwhelmed by the sheer strength of movement and the intensity of the combinations, both enhanced by the prowess of the Conservatory dancers. Each solo was marked by particular nuances: expansive arm movements, sweeping lunges, and rhythmic patterns of stomping. No musical accompaniment was necessary to supplement the piece's climaxes in mood, which were...
...interjections of the story amid the sex. Rice catches herself in a paradox--bringing readers in with the skillful language of her sex scenes and then losing their interest when she uses that writing for non-sexual descriptions. For the most part, sex wins over plot in terms of sheer frequency of occurrence. While it is doubtful that Armand might ever have found its way to the coffee tables of the literary jet-set, Rice further loses whatever respectable audience she might have by drenching her narrative in so much...
...must-have for all Heaney fans, Heaney neophytes and poetry enthusiasts in general, the anthology offers word-for-word the richest visual splendor this side of Yeats. Herein are contained works of virility, gentility, raw passion, reserved harmony and the sheer ecstasy of reveling in language, rolling around in verbiage as only Seamus Heaney can do. The anthology contains works Heaney himself chose from among his rather extensive prosaic and prosodic output. The majority of the collection is made up of poems from all nine of Heaney's collections (spanning a thirty-year literary eternity from 1966's Death...