Word: unspoken
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...died in the borough they lived in. New York, like any big city or small town, is an overlapping series of neighborhoods. We feel closest to the place where we shop, get our dry cleaning done, take a walk or drive through, surrounded by buildings that are our unspoken friends, as much as the familiar faces of folks we see every day but have never been introduced...
...There is no actual hierarchy of who can perform where. It’s more like an unspoken, constantly morphing negotiation,” Palmer says. “The politics of it are totally different depending...
...Some customs endure. There's the unspoken language of the veil, the tagelmoust, worn by the men. It covers the mouth, a "zone of pollution ... disrespectful to expose before others." Each man adjusts his veil subtly, constantly, in response to others and in accordance with status. One of high rank may let the veil fall. "Only someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca," Keenan writes, "can divest himself entirely...
After my three years of wandering, I finally reached Tibet and hoped that there, at last, I would find the answers to all my unspoken questions. But when I arrived in Lhasa and came face-to-face with the Potala, I stopped dead. I couldn't go in, because I knew that when I came out again there would be nowhere left...
...virus. Treating those already infected would require a further $4.5 billion a year. Plainly, the priority in the impoverished nations of sub-Saharan Africa is to stop the spread of a disease that threatens to drag the continent into anarchy. And where resources are already scarce, the unspoken choice may be to simply let the majority of those currently infected with HIV die. But that essentially implies a conscious choice by the world's wealthier nations to let some 30 million poor people die of a treatable disease rather than spend the money on keeping them alive. And that, presumably...