Word: horror
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...himself in puddles left by the rain, even though he needed them to drink from. For his psychological survival, this was probably a good tactic. So grotesque were his injuries that when he finally judged it safe to return to Zaza, he went unrecognized. People scurried from him in horror until he produced a photo he happened to have in the back pocket of his jeans. It showed him and Valbona smiling for the camera a few months before, at Christmas 1998, days after they had married...
...constantly launder a pile of rags and dish towels, I'll keep using sponges, reassuring myself that if I have to choose between microscopic organisms from the sponge and, say, a rapidly molding glop of spaghetti sauce mucking up the counter, I'm going to go with the unseen horror. Being a firm believer in knowing the rules before one breaks them, I like Mendelson's standards. She aims high so I don't have...
...long promised to lead the church in coming to terms with some of its sins on the occasion of the Jubilee," says Van Biema. "For him, it's the culmination of many years of work, as a pontiff who lost a lot of his Jewish friends during the horror of the Holocaust and questioned the complicity of his own faith as a result...
...horror of Hazel's forgetfulness is intense, and her effects are usually right on the money. We feel sad for Hazel, and Jonathan's treachery is repulsive both in action and thought. That natural repulsion is, I'm afraid, exploited to an unpleasant degree. A character without memory is just too easy to put in danger. This is the literary equivalent of going after the family pet in a horror flick: the victim is a helpless pawn whom we have little chance to meet properly, and thus have little incentive to care about in any specific sense. Put simply...
...doesn't pass, Clinton will beat the Republicans over the head with their failure in the fall." Clinton has grabbed this opportunity with a renewed sense of purpose; he has been talking a blue streak on gun control this week, playing to the general sense of horror over the latest gun-related violence. The President told an audience earlier this week that the rate of accidental gun deaths among American children is nine times higher than in the world's 25 other largest countries combined. While opponents of gun control have indicated they might be amenable to trigger lock legislation...