orz: Pronounced as it is in English, this Internet slang term is a posture emoticon from Japan meaning “to worship” as it looks like a person kneeling down on the floor and kowtow-ing. 跪了: Kneeled. It expresses the feeling one has when they would kneel, often when admitting a pers...
Brian is a profoundly moving meditation on the meaning of solitary life, of art and cinema in shaping one’s perception of and connection with the world, of the hidden depths of human soul often kept private in fear of misunderstanding and stigma, and of the importance of companionship and ...
Arija (Hebrew origin)meaning 'lioness of God'. It is one of the famous lions names mentioned in the holy scriptures of Judaism. Is the name Ariella popular? The name Ariella is a girl's name meaning "lion of God". This variation of Ariel, with the extra-feminine suffix, has been on ...
She’s already so nervous.Or else, she wouldn’t have chosen to sneak up to him at such a time. She probably mustered up all of the courage she could find inside of her. Besides, it seemed that her cultivation wasn’t low, meaning that her self-esteem was even higher. If he pulle...
That was Schopenhauer, telling the Germans in their bristly abstract way what Darwin told the English in their fussier, more detailed language: there is no point but suffering. There is no hidden redemptive meaning in any of this. It’s just an unfortunate industrial accident, organic life. ...
Over time, as gopnik fashion, slang, and attitude spread throughout the country’s lower classes, the meaning of the word changed. Rather than referring to the specific phenomenon of village toughs living in the Oktyabrskaya Hotel, “gopnik” referred to any Russian brute with a shaven head,...