Word: unspoken
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After that we grew quite close, drawn together by a common mode of conversation, the same general appreciation of comic nonsense (though sometimes he would issue a cold, dry laugh at something that seemed absolutely sensible to me), and by some unspoken sense of sadness. We circumvented the subject of politics whenever possible. He was appalled by my liberalism; I was enraged by his approval of Nixon and the Vietnam...
...Scarlet Pimpernel of those illusive qualities, grace and charm. He made his living mysteriously--producing and arranging--but when he appeared, in drawing-room comedy revivals, his welcomes were thunderous. He pretended astonishment but basked in the warmth of these tributes to his essential quality: old-fashioned, unspoken gallantry...
...violence we dont know how to confront is the violence of exclusion-the violence of a system that forbids its brightest students from studying what they love, that purposefully works its most promising talents to the point of exhaustion and despair. It is a subtle, unspoken, cold kind of violence, all the more disturbing for its complete lack of passion. It is a violence so ethereal that it is almost impossible to name, though a play like The Ohio State Murders makes it impossible to ignore. Ultimately, Stern and Kennedy were right to draw this most troubling layer of human...
...workout winds down, hard-core runners proudly wipe the sweat pouring from their brows. If the user has perspired onto the machine, or simply touched the buttons, he hurries to find the antiseptic and paper towels for cleaning purposes. The prospective treadmill recipient sometimes waives this unspoken rule, but only because he prefers to sterilize the machine himself...
...fear is that students and parents grow distant after spending a couple of years away here," she said. "It was a kind of speaking the unspoken, because parents...were wondering if what we're going through is normal. The career panels, like the 'Life After Harvard' one, reassured them that it's okay for us to be undecided...