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...Scientific investigation, when not self-applied, is lauded and useful, but when it threatens to rock our pedestal, well, it is all just "theories" anyway. We accept the fruits of science and rational, empirical exploration of the physical world without embracing these precepts in our bones, without having the stomach to accept what they tell us about ourselves. In short, we are "fair weather rationalists," ignoring science when desirable, and embracing it when it makes us happy. We will trust our life to science by boarding an ordinary jetliner, but when science tells us of our lowly and improbable origins...
...like wearing shorts and skirts that show my stomach," says Tonya Rodriguez, an eighth-grader at Seven Springs Middle School in New Port Richey, Fla. "I have a really flat stomach, and I like it." Her principal, Roni Sushko, isn't quite so charmed. She has cited Tonya, 13, for dress-code violations eight times since the beginning of the school year, suspending her on two of those occasions. Tonya's infractions include wearing miniskirts and spaghetti-strap tops, which run afoul of regulations that the school's county instituted last year. The new code specifies that all skirts...
...Keith, the master chef who can only cook when there's porcini mushrooms involved and who's trying to pass himself off as a do-rag-wearing stud who can carry "big logs and stuff." Alicia, who may be able to wash the Kucha Tribe's clothes on her stomach but can't even make bitchiness entertaining. Nick, who doesn't have a discernible personality, and Tina, who's sweet and earnest but can't keep her grub down or my eyelids...
...goals of eating fried chicken and masturbating. Yet if their motive was to "give something back to the porn community," as one friend of a filmmaker told the Yale Daily News, the members of Porn n' Chicken have chosen a rather unfortunate gift. Few have sufficient scientific curiosity (or stomach) to appreciate the performances of copulating Yalies, a part of the human experience that up until now has gone mercifully unrecorded on film. Some, perhaps, may find novelty in such a work of cinema; like rubberneckers at a car crash, though they can't stand to look, they simply...
...arise until voting actually starts. "McCain and Feingold claim they've got enough (60 votes) to make the bill filibuster-proof. That means they probably have all 50 Democrats and 10 Republicans lined up at the moment" - but the big question remains: How many of them will lose their stomach when confronted with the fact that this is no longer a theoretical issue. Plenty of senators, Democrats in particular, according to some reports, love to talk big about campaign finance reform, says Waller, "but actually implementing the changes would be akin to cutting off mother's milk...