and long ago, the right side of the front porch had been painted, and part of the wall -- but the painting was left unfinished and one portion of the house is darker and dingier than the other. The
An anecdote might be the antidote for a boring conversation, but don't confuse these words. An anecdote is a brief story. An antidote is a cure (usually for poison).
What does interminably mean? :having or seeming to have no end especially: wearisomely protracted an interminable sermon. What is pit region? pit. region ofthe plant cell wall in which the secondary wall is interrupted, exposing the underlying primary cell wall. One or more plasmodesmata are ...
Tell jokes, play quiz games, sing songs (not too well, though, but I never complained not wanting to hurt her feelings – not that I thought she had such a thing, but just in case) read books (also, not really like you get when a real human person reads a book, but I mean, it...
matter itself already qualifies as the mysterious thing that is necessary but not sufficient for consciousness — but this insight is the beginning and not the end of the problem. Since we already well know that matter has the latent potential to become conscious, how does the notion of a pro...
They do everything they can to thwart Brexit by a mixture of interminable delay, calls for second referendums and wilfully perverse interpretations of the word leave such as claims that the UK could remain in the Single Market and the Customs Union and still achieve Brexit. That is a clear...
” You want people to always feel invited and included. And so, when it came to forming a cohesive group that has this feeling of membership — and you used the word “intimacy.” I mean, there’s something really powerful about the fact that we have gathered once a month for seven ...
We learned a hard lesson of January 6th; likely those of a mind to criticize the outcome won’t be so eager to go to Washington to protest openly and run the chance of experiencing debilitating lawfare and interminable imprisonment in a Washington DC gulag, pending trail by a biased jury ...
‘s schlock pseudo-classic Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972), an early no-budget gem from the man who’d go on to direct the great Black Christmas (1974), Porky’s (1982), Porky’s II: The Next Day (1983) and the interminable A Christmas Story (1983)—–yes, the ...
Other astonishing points: John Adams was a real bastard; Franklin was a terrible manager of records and finances; that the interminable length of time between messages moving from Paris to Philadelphia makes it all the more incredible that anything got done; and he was rather quickly, unceremonio...