Word: wowing
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...When things go well, she's gloriously, darkly intuitive. (Here she is on the Olympic podium: "The national anthem starts to wail, creating a dreaded musical pressure in my chest as the flag slowly rises in a celebrating-the-dead kind of way. Something churns and my mind says: Wow! This is exactly like a giant funeral!") And for a world-class swimmer, she's not obsessed with swimming. Or rather, the novel isn't. Swimming really is like breathing for Pip--so integral to her life that it goes virtually unnarrated. What that means for readers is that...
...running an hour a day, and I'm not losing any weight.'" He asks them, "What are you doing after you run?" It turns out one group of friends was stopping at Starbucks for muffins afterward. Says Church: "I don't think most people would appreciate that, wow, you only burned 200 or 300 calories, which you're going to neutralize with just half that muffin." (Read "Too Fat? Read Your E-mail...
...Korean friends what they think of students who go to Seoul National or Yonsei, their first reaction is, “They must work really hard.” In contrast, when a Harvard student drops the H-bomb, often the first reaction is, “Wow, you must be really smart.” Since Korean college admission is based entirely on a test score, it is widely acknowledged that no matter how naturally intelligent you are, if you don’t study intensively for the exam, you won’t go to a top-tier...
...course, by 11 a.m. on Monday, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera had run a story on the alternate plan in the works: If the quakes become too angry, the heads of state will just meet in Rome (Wow, original idea! I’m really glad after two weeks someone finally came up with that). However, it’s 24 hours before the summit starts and the plan remains the same: Everyone get in your helicopter and get your very important tush up to an irritable fault line...
...eight years now, the New York Asian Film Festival has earned "Wow"s and "Huh?"s from Manhattan audiences with its savory mix of action and art-house works from the continent that produces more movies than any other. In its scope and vigor, this is the New York film festival, and it's run not by a heavily subsidized arts institution but by a few knowledgeable guys from Brooklyn who want to share their enthusiasms with the fanboys of the tristate area. The playlist has grown from 11 features in 2002 to more than 50 this time, and includes...