Word: exclaiming
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...crucible of randomness. Though for the Faculty, this is real, damn it, and not some merely contrived artifice. And now, by way of these professors’ new Curricular Review, comes the watchword “internationalization.” (The professoriate might as well giddily exclaim, “Radicalize the Revolution...
...first answer to eachof this book's questions is facetious. Why do snails carry houses on their backs? Because they love to go camping. No! exclaim Olten's gallery of youngsters, rendered in a variety of amusing tones and 'tudes. The following page provides the real answer. Little readers joining in on the repeated joke will hardly notice how much they're learning. Watch out for the final question: the funny answer is also the real...
...again two nights ago, when a relative visiting from the provincial town of Maragheh (385 miles northwest of Tehran) praised me for planning a vaginal delivery. "Most women these days just aren't willing," he said wistfully. Usually, I'm reluctant to admit my decision, as people tend to exclaim "how interesting!" with faux cheer for my medieval birthing plans. My friends cannot resist trying to convince me to get sliced open. They cheerfully tug up their shirts, and flash me their discreet little scars, always pointing out how they fall under the bikini line...
...legacy kids. Indeed, I used to be so opposed to the very concept of collegiate legacy, that I refused to apply to this very school. “I’ll never know if I got in on my own virtues!” I’d exclaim. “And no one’s going to respect me if they find out that my name’s on a damn building...
...punctuation-less lines that rush into one another. Robinson can sustain the tension of a phrase over several lines, even through self-interruption. In “From this miserable mutineer a stutter, / for when we are reading Dostoevsky in caves,” the narrator starts to grandly exclaim “My—” but breaks it with a wistful aside “(Has it been a hoax? The man on Belton Street selling poetry…)” before concluding, with a subtly shifted emphasis, “My fellows...