It may seem natural to presume that the pursuit of happiness is something that has been at the center of what it means to be human and to fulfill your life purpose. But it hasn’t. Happiness and the effort to bottle it up and sell it to the highest bidder is a relatively new journey...
“Martini” does mean something specific. Yet somehow it can also be synonymous with espresso, apple, lychee, passion fruit (i.e., the “porn star”), MSG, tomato, sherry, seaweed, smoked salmon … in due course, anything. Food Why the espresso martini won’t go away — and never sho...
It is an eight-song suite of despair, rage and brooding thoughts of a life – and maybe a planet – that has fallen into what he calls an “inexorable slide”. Alone, the first track – and the band’s first new song released in ...
So it's surprising thatanxiety has been linked to a feeling of euphoria. After all, euphoria is a positive emotion, and while it can be associated with negative things (such as euphoria from drugs or mania), the emotion itself goes against nearly everything we know about anxiety. How can ...
1 : to give oneself up to brooding : become listless or dejected I was feeling depressed and just moped around all day. 2 : to move slowly or aimlessly : dawdle the little woman does mope along in traffic— Paul Jones. 3 archaic : to act in a dazed or stupid manner. Is lackadaisical...
chén sī wèn tí 沉思问题 ponder over a matter tā de zì huà xiàng dōu shì guāng tóu de chén sī qīng nián 他的自画像都是光头的沉思青年。 He paints himself as a shaved-headed, brooding youth. synonym shēn sī深思 Word usage Note "沉思" cannot be written as "沈思". ...
Just as an artificially imitated sneeze lacks something of the reality, so the attempt to imitate an emotion in the absence of its normal instigating cause is apt to be rather "hollow". The next thing to be noticed is this, that every one of the bodily changes, whatsoever it be, is ...
Each piece of music, be it a song, symphony or concerto, is written in a specific ‘key’. But what do we mean when we refer to a musical key, why are there 24 of them, and how do composers choose which key to write in?
No, hover means to remain in one place in the air or to stay close to something. 7 Is "Hoover" derived from a person's name? Yes, it is associated with the Hoover Company's founder, William Henry Hoover. 7 What does it mean when a bird "hovers"? It means the bird remains statio...
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. Chuck A clucking sound. Cluck To suffer withdrawal from heroin. Chuck (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal. Cluck To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen. Chuck Food. Cluck To ...