15. If you and someone else really want to catch up, leave the premises. It’s the only way to be sure you can be alone. Even then, consider splitting up and meeting at a prearranged location (you can do it, you’ve been practicing spy stuff). If anyone sees you, you’re doomed...
You can die from someone else’s misery – emotional states are as infectious as disease. Youmayfeel you are helping the drowningmanbut you are only precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy ...
“Last night, you would haveseenthe lunar eclipse occurring before your very eyes.” Verb ▲ To have found or discovered “The explorers claim to haveseenthe elusive Bigfoot.” Verb ▲ To have understood based on given information “I haveseenhow secret meetings can be highly inappropriate.”...
but make sure it’s your intuition, rather than your insecurities, doing the talking. Your instincts are fine-tuned from decades of exposure to the world around you; you know how communication works, that when you extend a hand towards someone it usually means “friend” rather than “foe....
五、阅读理解Using the expression “bird brain" was one way to insult(侮辱) another person's 1Q. That is because a bird's brain is small. So, anyone with such a bird sized brain was thought to be not that smart. But calling someone a “bird brain" might not be as insulting as it...
This new partnership with the fashion rental app Rotation means Lidl is helping to curb the need for one-off purchases of seasonal outfits. Everybody has bought a Christmas jumper for that work party that never sees the next festive season, so now you have the option to rent one for your...
Injustice happens even when you just look different from someone else. Injustice is what you see when a life is broken open and all that is human is poured out and desecrated in broad daylight. We have to face this and call it by its name. That is what the Sabbath Life is. The ...
Can you suggest a word that encapsulates causing someone to understand something? To express causing someone to understand something, “enlighten” or “inform” might be the terms we’re looking for. What are some synonyms that convey the action of realizing? When we’re talking about the acti...
With seven cocktails in each of seven categories, there are choices for every palate. Scanning through cocktails with names like “Earthquake Proof,”“Hanky Panky” and “Ver Sales,” a satirical play on how someone from Kentucky would pronounce Versailles, I settled on “Martinez,” a ...
For someone in this world, you are already in whether you know it or not. You are smiled at, wreathed, daubed on the forehead. There is a general smiling quality that is palpable. People are there to make the gods happy and are happy themselves. Periodically, there are musical outburst...