Word: shudderfully
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...force of gravity for hours on end. My mind found itself wandering down well-worn, if paranoiac paths, imagining images of small pebbles and pigeons being sucked into the intake of the engine directly outside my window and my horror at seeing the entire wing of our plane shudder and detach, tumbling end-over-end, destroying the beautiful and necessary symmetry of the airfoil at 29,000 feet...
...shudder to think what would have happened to me if I had allowed that therapist to fit me to his psychological rack. I only hope that closeted Harvard students find the courage, the honesty and the loving support they need to avoid a similar trap...
...places it may be too sharp for good taste. Headlines such as “Fun Toy Banned Because of Three Stupid Dead Kids” and “Loved Ones Recall Local Man’s Cowardly Battle With Cancer,” provoke that horrible smirk-shudder reaction, and the book might be better had they been left...
...survivor of the terrorist attacks. Standing in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel after the first plane hit, Clifford saw a charred woman rise from the pyre, her fingernails melting off and her clothes burned onto her skin. He was shielding her with his coat when a second shudder sent them to the floor. To keep her from drifting off, they conversed and prayed. She told him her name, Jennieann Maffeo, and the name and number of her boss at Paine Webber; she also told him she was asthmatic and allergic to latex. Clifford took copious notes. With the help...
Antonio Stradivari, one of the greatest craftsmen the world has known, would shudder if he were to read what follows. It concerns a cello he made three centuries ago, in 1701, that today some musicians consider the best in the world. It is named after one of its various owners, Adrien-François Servais, and for the past 20 years has been kept in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington. Occasionally a musician of renown is allowed to play the Servais: in 1992 Dutchman Anner Bylsma made a beautiful recording of Bach...