About the title: “Wet smack” is an old-timey phrase for “wet blanket” or misfit. I use it a lot in my novels when I can. The instrumentation on the new album is weird (Salon de la Guerre fans should expect no less by now). I include a lot of original Fender strat guitar pe...
When I was writing the prospectus for my Ph.D. thesis, one of the things that struck me was how alien the scholarship I studied was. Most of the scholarship I was reading was very unfamiliar to me: my education as a medievalist had been pretty normal for someone from the US, focussed...
The underlined phrase “take off” means ___. [ ] A. a plane rising into the air B. develop very fast C. remove hats and clothes D. bring down the prices 试题答案 在线课程 答案:1.C;2.C;3.A;4.B; 解析: (1) 第一段中提到这样一句话“Rich Romans visited friends and family who...
I wonder if this is the sort of compliment/warning I will be receiving on report cards about Ellis for the next decade – eventually followed by the phrase “We were wondering if you were interested in getting some medical treatment for Ellis’s PERSONALITY”. Sigh. I gathered E’s backpack...
had to work consistently in rifles made in another. The armed forces initially inspected virtually every unit of product; then to simplify and speed up this process without compromising safety, the military began to use sampling techniques for inspection, aided by the publication of military-specific...
I think the phrase “spoiled for choice” could very easily apply to the American church situation, and I want to find the balance between looking for one that matches what I would like and holding out for an ideal that does not exist. I also want to listen to the Spirit’s promptings...
phrase in his spiritual teachings, and it just struck me as a great way to remember to take a breath and enjoy what comes your way. Laura also let me peek inside her studio–thanks to Syd, whom I believ she called a singing cowboy as well as an artist and jeweler, for showing me...
Sharon is referenced as far back as the Song of Solomon, a book of the Old Testament, in the phrase: “I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.” #29. Jeffrey (boys) PxHere #29. Jeffrey (boys) Total babies born in last 100 years: 973,193 Rank in 2017: #323 ...
“All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.” ―Samuel Beckett “[Waiting for Godot] has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a pl...
2. ANAPHORA: the repetition of a word or phrase in successive clauses. “I think of you at the blowing windI think of you at the dazzling sunlight” –Can’t Stop “My heart stops at this cold love, my heart breaks into piecesMy breath stops at this sick love, my breath slowly die...