“Plans areafloatfor a new chemical laboratory and medical college on the campus.” Adjective ▲ Solvent, free of debt “His working heirs have their hands full keeping the businessafloat.” Adjective ▲ Drifting randomly or without control ...
▲ The weight of something “Its ability to tow a 7000-pound boat is quite respectable considering theheftof the load.” Noun ▲ The power to influence a person or situation “They then set about to consider where in the world to go where the dollar still had someheft.” ...
Yesterday I bought a bar of Galaxy Fusions for the first time. I’m not sure exactly what was being fused with what here – but I can never resist the allure of the Latinate Plural in product naming. The Latinate Plural is basically any kind of aspirational Latinate word, rendered in ...
yet full of individual architectural ingenuity. Noravank puts the narthex underneath, rather than in front, of the main church. The stairs are scary to climb up (and especially to climb down!), but for the time you are up there you are in a perfect church, aloft amidst mountains and ...
There was the devil in that jackyarder; I am quite convinced that it was only the firm statement by our topmast hand that if he had to stay aloft much longer he was going to be sick regardless of consequences that spurred the crew on deck to get it down at all. When darkness fell,...
Why, at the root of my spreading the word, was this feeling of reaching out for selfish “say it isn’t so” help? Two days later, in Phil Hughes’ death, that moment assumed an ironical life of its own. Those two days had been spent monitoring markets, stretching time with friends ...
“Interesting,” I say. Yes, my vocabulary has been reduced to a single word. “It’s more than interesting,” he says. I nod. I smile. “Excuse me?” His eyes narrow. His nostrils flare. “Are you smiling?” It’s not a question, it’s an accusation. ...
I love keeping ideas aloft without having to pin them down. And that we make sense of them in ways that are not always conscious or digestible through language. Sometimes you make a film, or you write a novel, and you can reduce it to an easily digestible paragraph for people...
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“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” The twelve legions of angels He could have summoned would have been feeble and useless; He who withered the fig tree and turned the Nile into blood could have...