Word: tenderize
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What's clear within the first moments of Chinese Democracy is that Rose still has his snarl. His voice always was a power tool with endless precision settings, and on "Better" he opens by speak-singing in a tender falsetto before the guitars kick in and he sandblasts away at the melody. What Rose has to say - "A twist of fate, the change of heart kills my infatuation" etc. - is a bland list of romantic gripes that fail to diminish the song's impact one bit because it's how Rose sings that matters. Repeating the word better...
...doing so. As I watched him give his acceptance speech before the multitudes filling Hyde Park, tears sprang to my eyes and only one thought entered my head: “It should have been me.” I began my own campaign for U.S. president at the tender age of nine, when I ran for class representative of the fourth grade at Adler Park Elementary School. Winning would propel me onto the student council, the venerable body that met once a month to discuss the important issues—the rising prices of chocolate milk, the construction...
...falls asleep, and protects her from the various other fiends who for reasons not worth explaining are looking to kill her. It's possible, as many commentators have suggested, that the chivalrous Edward is a teenage girl's dream date: not just sophisticated and powerful but tender and soulful, he's the 100-Year-Old Virgin, able to wait a century till he finds his soulmate, his conscience a constant chaperone that keeps things from getting out of hand. As my colleague Lev Grossman put it, "It's never quite clear whether Edward wants to sleep with Bella...
...breasts swing like overripe fruit!” Satisfied that he had spouted an ode of the highest poetic order, he skipped down the hall to fetch the Bible from his library.Felicity stood rooted in place, stunned and shaking. What did he mean by full maturity? She was a tender blossom! Strong? She was as delicate as a daffodil! Granted she did not faint as easily as that virginal non-virgin, but she had her occasional spells. And thick limbs? She turned out an ankle—still slim! Pendulous breasts? She jiggled her creamy shoulders in the mirror...
...explore the artists that influenced and provided the tracks for his horn-infused, funk-dance mixes, as well as a little known singer-songwriter named Ellen McIlwaine.Later, the DFA Remixes led me to a London band called Cage & Apiary, which led me to a blog called Illegal Tender, which led me to new Justice songs and a set of remixes made by Cage & Apiary themselves, ironically. I encourage you then to forge your own connections, and keep making them if you already are.—Columnist Ruben L. Davis can be reached at rldavis@fas.harvard.edu...