“The nuns, tucking up their habits, were forced to flounder through the mud on foot.” Verb ▲ To fail to have the intended effect or result fail collapse founder fizzle flop fluff tank bomb crater flatline break down fall flat fall through not succeed be unsuccessful fall short flame ou...
Present participle for to yell or shout loudly or angrily Verb ▲ Present participle for to say something quickly and irritably Verb ▲ Present participle for to be silent, morose, and bad-tempered out of annoyance or disappointment Verb
All of this warlike talk might be excusable, even laudable, if it came from a genuine human rights activist who paid for these words. But this is James Woolsey – one of the closest things America has to a Blackshirt (if we’re going to abuse this over-abused word as he does). Ind...
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Conscripts have no choice in the natureof the work they are required to do. ... As highlighted by the Special Rapporteur, this system of indefinite, involuntary conscription amounts to forced labour and is a human rights violation. What was the age range for being drafted into the Vietnam ...
I felt like Oliver Twist, begging for more… You can’t tell how wet we are from this photo… just take my word for it. Another of the Carnegie estate homes (Dungeness) burned to the ground some time ago, and one can explore the ruins, as can the wild horses. Right near there is...
YA is about having imposed limits, living under rules you didn’t invent and forced into systems outside your control; it’s about testing the boundaries, finding the chinks, discovering allies who think like you and enemies who don’t. It’s about throwing yourself kicking and screaming, at...
SDAFF is known for its great hospitality and this year was no exception. Then it was off to the movies, starting with the shorts program Astral Projections. MANY MOONS (dir. Chisato Hughes) was the standout film in this program, an essay film about the 1880s forced expulsion of almost ...
SDAFF is known for its great hospitality and this year was no exception. Then it was off to the movies, starting with the shorts program Astral Projections. MANY MOONS (dir. Chisato Hughes) was the standout film in this program, an essay film about the 1880s forced expulsion of almost ...
with a decidedly clinical focus (Dr. Dibs not only works on reproduction, but monitors vital signs and administers drugs), there is a palpable sense of dirt and decay – a kind of deterioration which approximates the exploitation of these prisoners, the forced duration that exceeds human timeli...