Word: twig
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...good three hours while I cook, eat and clean after my dinner (plain pasta boiled with garlic and peanut butter spread over my four remaining meusli bars—mmm!). I manage in the process to go through not only every log in the hut but every stick, twig or leaf in a 10-meter area outside...
...show works, however, because the duo, two fashion journalists, are blunt but never mean. They represent opposite poles of the female form (Woodall is a twig, Constantine is Rubenesque), and they are as frank about their own bodies as about their victims'. There's a towel-snapping, locker-room sexuality about them--they spend a lot of time grabbing their guests' and each other's breasts and butts--and real heart behind their snippiness...
...sees an absolute mastery of the processes of drawing: the making of marks but also the making of the instruments with which to make them. In the 15th century one did not walk into a shop and buy a pencil. One had to make the silverpoint or the twig of charcoal. One had to cut the pen and shape its nib from a quill. All of this was wound in with the technique of drawing and helped to determine its intensity. That is one of the reasons why small drawings (and most of Leonardo's drawings were small, in some...
GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF HOW AMERICAN MANNERS HAVE AFFECTED ATTITUDES AROUND THE WORLD. The dignity of labor. Even if someone has all the money in the world and just spends it, we look down on him or her. This has spread everywhere. Now every aristocratic twig has to have a shop or a career...
...emphasized by the spiky leaves of the dark tree behind her--a juniper, ginevra in the Italian of the day, her given name. Then, on the back of the panel, is the explanatory inscription. A branch of laurel and a palm frond--for glory and virtue--enclose a twig of juniper, with the inscription "Virtutem forma decorat" (Beauty adorns virtue...