Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Just be sure you understand all the package charges beforehand," she said...
...Shields seem to have been remarkably private men; despite the hundreds of Haines quotations and reminiscences by friends that Mann has drawn on, most of Haines' comments to the world feel like "wisecracks"--his trademark brand of defensive humor--and it's hard to get a feeling that we understand this man's inner life. Even less information remains about Shields, and what reminiscences his friends do offer sound rather more boorish than endearing. (Rumor has it that Haines' estrangement from Cole Porter, for instance, was precipitated by Porter's catching Jimmie undecorously having sex with a sailor...
...People fear what they don't understand, and ifit's closed off to them, they'll fear it," onestudent said...
...crowd's susceptibility to be hoodwinked by Unwound's conspicuous distancing would have flabbergasted even the most naive bystander. The Olympia, Wash. based group was emotionally impenetrable, their inescapably unfamiliar and unattractive soundscape not making the group any more easy to understand. The conclusion: either the members colluded to dupe their loyal fans or they decided transcending the expectations of the crowd wasn't worth the effort. It didn't help that the similarly self-absorbed fans ate it right...
What may attract attention and raise pulse rates, however, is that the latest re-translations in the Loeb series, which are published in both their original language (either Greek or Latin) and English, are more sexually explicit and easier to understand than the older texts they replace...