became an important spell for Taipei Assassins top laner Wang "Stanley" June-Tsan in TPA's rise through this tournament to eventually win the entire event. However, most teams were content to focus more on laning spells like Ignite, Exhaust or Ghost paired with the ubiquitous Flash spell. ...
For the purposes of writing acrostic poetry, eschew the urge to use a thesaurus. Really. If you search for synonyms of words that begin or end with certain letters, you’ll convince yourself to use words that sound unnatural or have different intended usages. Try to use language organically,...
it’s tantamount to saying, “Look, I don’t care which of you represents me; all agents look alike to me. So what does it matter that one of you already said no?” The
if I know writers — and I should, after seven years of blogging for and about them — I’ll bet that there are at least a few of you that honestly meant to pull together an entry by tomorrow, but just haven’t had the time. ...
It’s incumbent on one to employ the vernacular and eschew archaisms. It’s not O.K. to use ampersands & informal abbreviations. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are usually (but not always) an obstacle for readers (and make it harder on readers even if you’re being careful). (...
Drury isn’t a traditional first baseman, and he can fill in at third to spell Henderson or open up at-bats for Mountcastle. He also hits lefties better than righties, with provides a bit of a hedge against Santander’s sizable platoon split. This is a bit of a budget option, which ...
Do not be afraid to eschew platforms like Roll20 for Discord-only gaming. Adding the learning curve of online gaming can feel like a lot, but I promise you that once you get into it and set up a few maps and run a few encounters on Roll20, it will all click. ...
Memos have a broad audience, so be sure to use accessible writing. For example, instead of “Eschew obfuscation by avoiding sesquipedalian business terms,” you might say, “Use clear, simple language.” As you write a draft, try to anticipate any questions or concerns that employees may have...
I will eschew a detailed quantitative analysis of each preverbal sequence, since some of the phenomena described below occur simultaneously. The taxonomies presented in the next sections facilitate the formalization of the phenomenon by means of information-structural categories. 123 22 N. Catasso 5.2...
So you might want to eschew such statements as, “My friends say this is the greatest novel since THE GRAPES OF WRATH. It will move you to tears and rock you with laughter. It’s also a natural for Oprah.” You can make better arguments for your manuscript’s relevance. “But Ann...