Carlo had the sense to realize that Sonny would kill him, that Sonny was a man who could, with the naturalness of an animal, kill another man, while he himself would have to call up all his courage, all his will, to commit murder. It never occurred to Carlo that because of this he...
At the end of his chapter on “The Adventuress” (“chief character in tens of thousands of novels in every language under the sun”), he provides us with his “Articles of Association for Adventuresses” — or, “Ten Commandments for Love’s Highwaywomen”: Choose an original name — ...
23 The phrase “to obey or disobey” implies alternative possibilities when it comes to thinking, rationality, and “intellectual behavior”. Accordingly, if one is not intellectually or epistemically responsible for their mental behavior, then one does not possess justification for any resulting ...
finalterminalultimate 7. a share or part: his end of the bargain. 8. (often plural) a remnant or fragment (esp in the phrase odds and ends) 9. a final state, esp death; destruction 10. the purpose of an action or existence 11. (Soccer) sport either of the two defended areas of...
26. What does the underlined phrase “keeping tabs on” in paragraph 3 probably mean? A. Listing completely. B. Directing professionally. C. Promoting successfully. D. Watching carefully. 27. What can we infer from the last paragraph about animal actors? A. They may be badly treated. B. ...
finalterminalultimate 7. a share or part: his end of the bargain. 8. (often plural) a remnant or fragment (esp in the phrase odds and ends) 9. a final state, esp death; destruction 10. the purpose of an action or existence 11. (Soccer) sport either of the two defended areas of...
This is the only place Luke uses this lengthy phrase. Normally he simply says an “unclean spirit.” Luke 4:34 tn Grk“What to us and to you?” This is an idiom meaning, “We have nothing to do with one another,” or “Why bother us!” The phrase τί ἡμῖν καὶ ...
Aside from the this final chapter about the initial occupation period after the war, there are many parallels between Other Ranks and Soul Wounds. Both focus on a single young infantryman, both stay tightly bound to the experience of being in the front lines, being in combat, with few and ...
Here, then, the abstraction of the category "labour," "labour as such," labour sans phrase, the point of departure of modern economics, becomes true in practice for the first time. Thus the simplest abstraction, which modern economics puts in the forefront and which expresses an ancient ...
13. a culmination or crisis (esp in the phrase bring or come to a head) 14. (Pathology) the pus-filled tip or central part of a pimple, boil, etc 15. the head considered as the part of the body on which hair grows densely: a fine head of hair. 16. (Physical Geography) the ...