They see him as some kind of superman, not the soft, whiny man-child he obviously is. As I wrote last year, Toughness Isn’t Strength, Unless You’re a Brillo Pad.“The word toughness can connote an ability to withstand hardship and adverse conditions,” I wrote. “But we all know ...
chic,chicness,modishness,swank,chichi,last word,smartness elegance- a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste; "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility" dapperness,jauntiness,nattiness,rakishness- stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance ...
The sisters agreed and became the founders and God-rulers of what would one day become known as the Hive.[15] The Worms taught the nascent Hive Gods of the Sword Logic, which they used to become ever more powerful.[citation needed] Much later, the Hive God Auryx (who was once Aura...
or “Hey, that is the instrument, I like!” After of few months of drudgery, I am feeling excited about further developing my story. Creating the two new chapters allowed me better to develop some of the relationships, create a more defined aura of the period, and insert material ...
according to previously described procedures [32,33]. Briefly, superoxide anion production was assayed by monitoring the superoxide dismutase-inhibitable reduction of ferricytochrome c. Elastase release experiments were performed using MeO-Suc-Ala-Ala-Pro-Val-p-nitroanilide as the elastase substrate [...
"She [Aura after being raped by Dionysos in her sleep] killed the goatherds, killed their whole flocks of goats, in agony of heart, because she had seen Pan the dangerous lover with a face like some shaggy goat; for she felt quite sure that shepherd Pan tormented with desire for Ekho ...
Alfred Prufrock aptly describes as “full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse.” Fortunately, there is a middle ground between those two extremes, namely the faculty of discernment. The word discern derives from a Latin root meaning “to separate,” but in its practical application, to discern...
Since this space is analyzable, its inhabitants are overshadowed by its grander aura. In the Palace, the body does not belong to the individual and his/her own will. It rather belongs to the ‘institutionalized’ volition of the Palace in which ‘docility’ rather than subjectivity and agency...
I say “incident,” but only for lack of a better word. Go-arounds can be unsettling for nervous and even non-nervous flyers, but I can’t overemphasize how routine the maneuver is for pilots. And as I’ve written before, the transition from descent to ascent, however abrupt, is perfe...
Walter Benjamin, in his famous essay on mechanical reproduction of the artwork, insists that by abolishing the work’s uniqueness and remoteness, mechanical copying destroys its aura, a glamour which had surrounded it ever since art sprang from the thigh of ritual. “[T]hat which withers in ...