Word: thick
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Surely you've noticed the Jockicus in one of your sections. He usually lacks a neck, or at least it starts and ends with a thick roll of flesh that protrudes from the back of his occipital bone. He looks as if he starts every morning by consuming at least four boxes of Wheaties before rendering an innocent-looking bathroom completely uninhabitable...
...tries to describe. Innumerable counterpoints between what is rationality and what is naivete, subversion and loyalty, principle and experimentation, illusion and distortion are too much to sort out. Ionesco deliberately muddles his discussions with multiple speakers all declaiming at once, and the simple absurdity of people metamorphosing into thick-skinned pachyderms all testify to his won uncertainty. The effect is a mood of irrationality and mayhem as close to the experience of a real Nazi town as can be imagined. Today his vision nags like a trauma sustained too long ago to recall clearly, haunting audiences like a repressed memory...
Indeed, most people still picture scientists as the archetypal "nerds," complete with pocket protectors, greasy hair and thick black glasses. This image has done much to cloak scientists' true penchant for jest and practical jokes...
...Siberian factory director, his thick fingers playing with the end of his tie, eyed his two foreign visitors carefully and then leaned back in his chair to listen to the international businessman. An outsize copper relief of Lenin hanging on the wall behind him provided the only splash of color in an office that probably saw its best days about the time Sputnik was launched...
...years before we have another bear market, or one may have already started. If you've been investing $200 a month in no-load mutual funds for years, through thick and thin, don't ever change. In the long run, you'll do great. But if you've never lived through a bear market and have got into stocks because 3% from a bank is a joke, and you've got this young broker (who has also never lived through a bear market) advising you -- beware. Get at least some of your money out onto the sidelines, and for heaven...