Word: torrid
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...hang her ragged clothes--her real strength is in her close-to-the-bone rendering of the sadness lurking at the edges of every adult life. She understands how the most contented of us can still be overwhelmed unexpectedly by regret for the life not led. She's had torrid affairs but lacks "one single friend from all that ardour." She wishes she had been able to satisfy the longing "that exists in the head and the heart as well as the body," rather than finding herself utterly alone in her 50s, her sexuality fading, a silhouette in danger...
Sophomore shortstop Deborah Abeles continued her torrid season yesterday as her three-run homer in the top of the eighth inning led the Harvard softball team (20-17) to an 8-5 extra-innings comeback win and doubleheader sweep of Boston University (16-21) in Boston. The Crimson shut out the Terriers in the first game...
Should she decide to cooperate with Starr, Lewinsky may still be an unwitting ally of Clinton's. Even if Monica testified to a torrid Oval Office affair, says a White House insider, her credibility is now so ragged that it would be subject to reasonable doubt. The most senior cynics see an advantage here in the curious behavior of her lawyer, William Ginsburg: change her story often enough, and she becomes useless to Starr's case. She says in private she had sex, denies it in her affidavit, admits it in her proffer and then backs away from that. Which...
...things that were told to Mahler by the inhabitants of a summer garden. This is nothing if not Romantic. According to legend, Mahler's life was almost as romantic as his music--which is obviously romantic even to the untrained ear--and if he didn't specialize in the torrid love affair, he definitely experienced a few of them. It's even more romantic that one of the most fabulous singers of the late nineties--Maxwell--who lists the great composer as one of his influences, and nobody does romance quite like Maxwell...
With nearly, 2,500 raucous fans in attendance,Yale began the game at a torrid pace, torching thenets and holding a struggling Crimson squad at baythroughout the first half. When the dust settled,the Crimson found themselves in anall-too-familiar position, down 20-34 at half,looking to regroup...