Word: sheerness
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...concludes: "There is no harm equal to that of wasted time." The rest of the page is covered with odd figures by himself and pupils: a giraffe, a crab, a grasshopper, a skull. As the show travels through the artist's long life, the drawings, always impressive for their sheer brilliance, become increasingly personal: less part of a process and more meditations on profound themes. Studies for a Deposition, ca. 1523 shows the disposal of Christ's body as a laborious, undignified business. In The Lamentation, 1530-35, Christ's mother is seated on the ground, her son lying...
...funk department. Prince channels the spirit of James Brown and delivers a gritty call-and-response vocal performance over the jazzy stylings of a killer horn section. A number of bravura instrumental solos punctuate the six-minute mini-epic, each endeavoring to top the previous in terms of sheer technical prowess. It’s far and away the most exhilarating track on the album and easily the most fun thing Prince has recorded in a decade. And what would a Prince record be without a salacious slow-jam for your hook-up mixtape? “Incense and Candles?...
...disengage, to stop the conversation. Some scientists speculate that crying may have developed as a kind of psychic escape hatch - the sheer physicality of it distracting the distraught when mental anguish becomes too much to endure...
...took us three hours to travel to Nablus, and nearly an hour to walk through the humiliating Qalandiya terminal to get from Jerusalem to Ramallah. Israel has built a wall not to keep others out, but to keep the Palestinians imprisoned within; it is a manifestation of sheer domination. The wall snakes through the West Bank perforating it into dozens of tiny prisons. If this was a “security fence,” it would have been erected on the Green line, which separates Israeli and Palestinian territory. Life in the occupied territories has become so unbearable that...
...focusing on the wrong stuff,” on “being too cute, on creating too much offense.” He’s a big kid, 6’3 and 218 lbs., and much of his game is dependant on sheer physicality. On the forecheck, along the boards, and now on a line with offensive sparkplugs Kevin Du and Dan Murphy, Maki’s best bet is to throw his weight around. “That’s what they do: they create offense,” he says of his linemates...