He’s sitting next to you, and had given you a big hug when he walked into the restaurant. He used to be your favorite cousin. He’d grown up in the time you were gone. “Please, yes,” you say, and Jungwon orders a few green bottles of soju for the table. “Really?” your...
bear hug cling to hold tight clench fold grapple hold more ❯ “She could only shed tears, and press her child to her bosom, while she lifted up her eyes to Heaven in thankfulness for its preservation.” Verb ▲ To squeeze someone or something with one's hand clutch grip squeeze pinc...
The grammar of Nivkh is highly synthetic, with a developed case system, as well as other grammatical markers, but no grammatical gender. The basic word order of Nivkh isSubject Object Verb. Nivkh is notable for the high degree of incorporation between words. For example, those morphemes which ...
Lastly, as you reflect on summer’s energies and invitations, you may wish to set an intention for the season, which may be one word or phrase that can guide you over the next few months. Intentions that were voiced included rest, savor, balance, and play. Intentions help us focus on ...
— Yes. Buildings and rituals and images and stories meaning, all mutually reinforcing connections — the word ‘re-ligio’ — meaning ‘tying together’. –But wasn’t a main purpose of all of that the establishment and maintenance of power? Power, illegitimately intruding in mundane daily ...
word about it, I loved you whatever your shape, and only encouraged whatever endeavour you were currently infatuated with. Your mind changed so quickly I could hardly keep up, your enthusiasm for jobs waxing and waning day by day, you leaving me to fill out endless applications for jobs, I...
immediately. At 8pm that night I went into hospital where I lay inside the Magnetic Resonance Imaging chamber for half an hour, listening to the loud clicking, banging, and crashing of extremely technical and precise machinery mapping out my brain and skull. A word to the wise… if you ever...
I should make it absolutely clear here that it’s not illegal, or a “con” in the legal sense of the word. The companies themselves actually admit that it’s not “official”. If you take a look at the FAQ on the website of one of the most popular star naming companies you’ll ...
Yet even here, in this statement of one person’s certain love for another, the first word we read, not once leading a line but thrice, is “if.” It’s an interesting way to phrase it. Perhaps it’s the true way, the only way. * The words most of us want to hear when in ...
I took her word for it. She flip flopped back and forth between us going on a “break” and us divorcing. We agreed to a six month break. She told me, my family and my friends that she wanted to “find” herself so that we could reconnect in the future. She told my sister that...