Word: stagnant
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...slowly reverting to the thicket it once was. On once velvety golf links, cattle nibble at the patches of imported English grass that have survived months of neglect. Rows of expensive golf carts sit rusting in the salt spray from the nearby Pacific. The Olympic and villa pools, long stagnant, are covered with algae-green slime. Outside the compound's wrought-iron gates, striking waiters, maids and maintenance men-who have been picketing since July under a red and black strike flag of Mexican unions-are encamped with their dogs, turkeys and barefoot children, barring entrance to all. Though...
...manufacture of illusions in the main occupation of the characters in Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie, who spend their coffin-like existence waiting for the fortune that lies beyond "deceptive rainbows." In the world of the play, icy and sterile as glass, time is stagnant, and escape from the past requires an effort of will impossible for the fearful and freakish. They are a diseased family, the Wingfields, and the illusions that both protect and trap them are like the animals in the glass menagerie, all too brittle and transparent, shattering painfully at their first contact with an "emissary from...
...could possibly judge that fairly? Pragmatically, many theorists contend that inequality is necessary to reward with high income the initiative that produces economic growth. They add that growth makes the poor if not nearly equal to the rich, at least better off than they would be in a stagnant economy that distributed wealth equally. According to Economist Otto Eckstein's summary: "Some injustice is inescapable if the system is to perform...
Sure, it was kind of cool last week, but don't let that deceive you; It's getting to be sweltering time again. Harvard rooms are designed for the winter, not the summer, so your air stagnant. You can always go lie around in the Yard but it's hot there too and, well, what you really need is air conditioning. So here's where you can find...
...ancient world-earth, air, fire and water. The elements are not in their benign aspect, however, but viciously, terrifyingly distempered: earth as earthquake, air as hurricane, fire as holocaust and water as raging flood. What this production gives us is fallow earth, becalmed air, sputtering fire and stagnant water...