Word: torning
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...brushy paint-handling and increasingly harsh introspection in the features. In the very last of these, the paint has grown thin and pale; the face is resigned and tilted slightly to the side. The artist's image appears to be weakening, fading perhaps into the obscure position of one torn between styles and times, and caught, for all his talent, at a rank just below the greatest...
...world is that of simple, usual things, torn from everyday context and tossed together flippantly into generalized space. There are letters: big, blocky, physical letters, and simple words mapped out in a landscape, drawn with the qualities of their meaning. "Yes" rolls downhill on wheels, about to strike the barrier of a gigantic "but." Years of prosperity are shown as labeled building stones, arranged in reverse pyramid on top of the single block "1933." A rank of businessmen march with one step across the dotted line separating "Monday" from "Tuesday...
...previous parliamentary representation-plus 33 peers in the House of Lords. Nonetheless the Monday Club has become Wednesday's child, full of woe. The size of the Conservative victory meant that moderate Tories no longer needed to woo clubbers for support. More recently the Monday Club has been torn by internal rebellion; there is some evidence that members of Britain's small, neo-fascist National Front are moving to take over some of the club's branches...
Prometheus, chained to his rock, his liver torn and eaten by Zeus's eagle, cannot escape his destiny, but he can escape his fate. "Fate," Kott writes, "is non-awareness." And Prometheus, like all heroes of Greek tragedy, finally becomes pure awareness, at the pitch of ecstatic agony...
Boston, on the other hand, could not substitute as freely as it did in the regular season because of the numerous injuries that decimated its ranks. Most noticeably, Havlicek had torn muscles in his right shoulder that kept him from combing his hair with that hand for a week. Chaney and Nelson also sufferred various minor injuries that slowed down the fast break that Boston counts...