Word: shudder
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Cultivated Hypochondria. It was the "petite madeleine," dunked in tea and then savored, that unlocked the corridors of Proust's memory. "No sooner had the warm liquid, and the crumbs with it, touched my palate, than a shudder ran through my whole body, and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary changes that were taking place." So in Swann's Way, the first part of his seven-volume work, did Proust begin his remembrances. Soon the past was unfolding in his pages: "And once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction...
...Havre. It was 9 a.m. when we broke the sound barrier-Mach 1. Up there it comes with a whimper, not a bang. I had to be told that we had passed Mach 1 cruising at 30,000 feet; we felt only a slight whisper of movement, hardly a shudder, as the plane continued to climb...
...line of Virgil's Aeneid occurs to me. It is from Aeneas' account of the fall of Troy: Jam proximus ardet Ucalegon ! (Close by, Ucalegon's house is already ablaze!) When I contemplate the festival of the oppressed and exploited of South Africa, I shudder at the complacency and mystifications of all the Kennans...
...short. range military objectives, these are in the service of a policy that is itself unsound and immoral. Vietnamization and its concomitant political and military actions represent a continuation of the killing, the decimation, and the subjugation of the people of Indochina, with active American support and participation. We shudder at the evil that our government is committing in our names...
These factors, although they are imposed from outside, are internalized by welfare recipients. "Welfare-that word makes me shudder," said one recipient. "People are laughing at us. Being on welfare is the most humiliating thing in the world...