Pale is an old name for a pointed piece of wood driven into the ground and — by an obvious extension — to a barrier made of such stakes, a palisade or fence. Pole is from the same source, as are impale, paling and palisade. This meaning has been around in English since the fourte...
"Beyond the pale" then became a colloquial phrase meaning "outside the limits of acceptable behavior or judgment." Also beyond the pale: hipster haircuts.The English made every attempt not to succumb to the culture "beyond the pale." Settlers were forbidden to intermarry with the Irish, and...
Pale refers to lightness with a hint of color, indicating a subdued or diminished intensity, while white is the brightest, colorless shade, representing purity or full light reflection without hue.
Still, all this misses the meaning of the Gaetz nomination, the point of which has nothing to do with his suitability for the job. His virtue, in Trump’s eyes, is his unsuitability. He is the proverbial tip of the spear in a larger effort to define deviancy down … There’s a guidi...
Preface It is the intention of this author to present a work that would appeal to the sensibilities of the cerebral drama of this existence that we call life. Much of what is found within these pages is portrayed from the manly perspective of events that took place in an era of chaos, ...
In today's hectic world, neighbors are part of our daily lives. They are part of the process of socialization. Socialization is a process in which we interact with other people. In our lives we are always trying to look for a good area to live, a nice ho
This entire episode is premised on the assumption that everyone had good reason to believe and did believe that William was Mulder’s child. Now, on the word of the Father of Lies… No, on thehearsayword of the Father of Lies as related to Skinner who was given no proof, to Scully ...
appear angelic. Fear has been said to be the parent of religion: even of that religion is it the generator, which leads its votaries to sacrifice human victims at its altars; but the religion which springs from happiness is a lovelier growth; the religion which makes the heart breathe forth...
This was not the first movie I had seen, but it is the first movie I trulyrememberseeing. I remember the opening. The blackness of space. The gazillions of stars. The introduction of the saga drifting off into infinity. My father reading the words aloud and saying to himself “That is...
my son is 29. For the last 10 years, he has had gradual sleep deprivation because of incontrollable anxiety at night (never during the day). In the last 2 years, his new physician and his (first) psychiatrist have diagnosed that his adrenaline functions like if he was running on a trea...