Word: tenderizer
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...Deborah tolerated these dalliances. As she probably knew, most were never consummated. In fact, Franklin was a master of what the French call amitie amoureuse, whose English translation, amorous friendship, gives only a hint of its true meaning: a delicious form of intimacy, expressed in exchanges of teasing kisses, tender embraces, intimate conversations and rhapsodic love letters, but not necessarily sexual congress. A peek inside Franklin's not-so-little black book...
...there") that is also sonically adventurous (three sets of drums are banging simultaneously). It mixes romance and loneliness as well as any song since Losing My Religion. Myxamatosis opens with a cruel buzz that sounds like a horde of flies circling a corpse, but turns into something tender, with Yorke confessing, "No one likes a smart-ass, but we all like stars/That wasn't my intention/I did it for a reason." Even A Punch-Up at a Wedding, which is lyrically cruel (and really appears to be about a fight at a wedding), mixes anger with a pleasant groove...
...sense of self-worth, as does her increasingly close epistolary friendship with Ray's gay, witty younger brother Rex, from whom he is estranged. This could all be the stuff of a fairly ordinary midlife crisis, albeit in an exotic setting, except for two things. One, the tender, funny eloquence with which Rush sketches Ray's distress. And two, the fact that Ray is actually a secret agent...
...tender compassion of God/ The dawn from on high shall break upon us,” he writes...
...even apparently encased in some 30lbs of metal, seems to have been used to roll bread, U.S. officials say. The favorite use of the barrels was for drinking water. Since the buy back operation and the health warnings that accompanied it, local people have begun to complain of tender skin and other ailments. These could be real or psychosomatic. But villagers have no doubt who will be to blame for any health problems: the Americans. "They deliberately let people cause chaos here," claimed a worker from the local Shiite mosque, Abdul Mehdi, "to take our minds off the political situation...