Word: normal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...locals of Hama Village know what to do with a fat, smelly truffle. For centuries, if the village pigs in this remote corner of China's Yunnan province were acting a little less amorous than normal, the farmers fed a shovelful of truffles to the creatures in order to guarantee a future litter of piglets. Then, a few years ago, a strange tale wended its way through this hamlet, so disconnected from modern China that Cultural Revolution slogans from three decades ago are still inscribed on the village's mud-brick walls: foreigners, for some mysterious reason, were willing...
...would inevitably ask, "Aren't you going to miss the waiting? The angst? How can you live in a world where the Red Sox aren't snake-bitten also-rans?" I would quickly reply: "Don't be silly. This is the way it should be. This is the new normal...
...sure from the beginning and neither is the audience. In a normal movie, the two friends would decide to protect themselves by destroying the threatening mob, but May’s not looking for the easy catharsis. As the explanation behind Mikey’s situation is revealed and Nicky’s true nature is seen, it becomes clear that neither character is a cinematic hero. They are simply...
...people at Harvard, we don’t get drunk to don our beer goggles—which simply enhance our Harvard goggles—or any other magically corrective eyewear. We get drunk, sadly, because we just don’t have it in us to engage in normal sexual behavior, and many of us prefer a stress-free drunken hookup to more meaningful relationships...
...It’s crowded at 9:55 a.m., 10:20 a.m., 10:50 a.m., 1:50 a.m., and 2:10 a.m. There are 20 to 30 [passengers] at normal times...60, 65 at most,” Armstrong says...