Convo | Interesting
verb | special
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take the fall, whipping boy.
Mr Milei is often wrongly lumped in with populist leaders such as Donald Trump or Viktor Orban in Hungary.
he has a quasi-religious zeal for economic freedom
But imagine that, with Western backing, Ukraine used the lull to rebuild its economy, refresh its politics and deter Russia from aggression.
Inside China’s disciplinary centres for “deviant” youth.
What happens when young Chinese challenge the social conservatism of their parents?
And the more parsimonious you are, the more economically dense each byte that everyone has to retain on the ledger is. -
a mordant sense of humour.
However sad, however mordant, however terrible, we must know it.
Not particularly strong, but not ductile or easily malleable either. -
Not useful for any practical or ornamental purpose.
Nobody can impugn his ability. -
aghast.
He never allowed his work to impinge on his private life.
ordure, dung, fecal, feces, muck, manure, turd.
A few weeks of aerobics will firm up that flabby stomach.
We can give you more detail as our plans firm up.
weaning baby.
The press was accused of being subservient to the government.
The S&P 500, they're the Crème de la crème.
catastrophize.
postnasal.
carpal tunnel syndrome.
I came away with the impression that Mehmet Oz was, despite his well-deserved medical renown, preternaturally vapid and preening, and, thus, to me, an incongruous figure. -
And iPads are a huge business for Apple, and the iPad is now solidly established as a piece of our cultural firmament. Everyone knows what an iPad is. -
I thought this boded poorly for Netflix’s upcoming Christmas Day NFL games.
Streaming is altogether different. Netflix didn’t fall down on this big fight night, but they stumbled.
The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably Infowars.
It's your decision, we won't begrudge you either way.
Somewhere along the way snakes start sort of morphing into dragons.
Expurgate.??
Her hair is a reddish-brown colour.
nab.
Meanwhile, the high price is clearly beginning to crimp demand. -
She had ovarian cancer, bad. It had already metastasized.
The prognosis was grim: months to live, at best. And those months, toward the end, would inexorably grow ever more painful and profoundly sad.
He’s got friends — which fact alone can be rare for an 84-year-old — and he sees them regularly.
If they ever somehow met, my dad and Joe Biden would become fast friends.
“I know that walk,” he told me early this year, regarding Biden’s stiffening gait.
wedding band.
He looked around to no avail, and went to bed without it.
Some people imbue meaning and sentimental importance to certain objects. My dad saw his wedding ring like that. It was a sacred token. And now he’d lost it.
and if no one had, well, maybe could they keep an eye out for it.
He wasn’t forlorn. He laughed even. That’s how he is. That’s how I am. That’s how we are. I’m his boy, as he still sometimes reminds me. But I know what that ring meant to him.
That absolute certainty can and usually does come before every single vote in a state has been counted, but comes after the likely winner is ascertainable beyond a reasonable doubt.
The New York Times’s infamous “needle” lurched sickeningly rightward early.
I hadn’t stopped feeling heartsick about his ring.
It was no surprise I was welling up with tears come the morning.
At last the rabble had had enough of this.
Critics have accused him of rabble-rousing.
the rickety wooden stairs.
The rickety barn needs repairing.
continental quilt: duvet.
This is a jail, not a harem, Captain Butler.
A female comedian has Chinese men up in arms.
hunt and peck.
Knave, punk, hooligan, gangster, blackguard, rogue, scamp
The way Hemingway used his loss to his advantage—the way he turned the impediment to action into the impetus for action.
The conduct of Cato was applauded by his contemporaries and has been admired by history.
No, he killed himself out of spleen and despair. His death was the weakness of a great soul, the error of a stoic, a blot on his life.
nasal, nostril, sinus.
If you’re going to serve us a pile of dog shit on a plate, tell us it’s a turd. Don’t try to tell us it’s a sandwich.
You may decide it's best to hold off on voicing your opinion.
All in all, Apple’s business was relatively flat. iPhone sales were up 6% but flat for the fiscal year;
The family is a microcosm of society.
The race turned into a microcosm of the presidential race. Allred claimed Cruz was a threat to democracy. And Cruz likened Allred to the top of the Democratic ticket.
Cruz held off another well-funded challenger in 2018, when he beat then-Rep. Beto O'Rourke by about 200,000 votes.
In many ways, the ecstatic reaction to Harris is simply a reflection of the fact that she is so clearly trying.
full-throated endorsement of Harris.
That side is with Kamala Harris. It certainly makes for some strange bedfellows on the sort of policy disagreements most U.S. elections are waged over.
gunk, gooey, gook, slimy, goo
I will never forgive or forget Trump’s shameful desecration of our democratic ideals in 2020.
But his attempt to overturn the 2020 election — ham-fisted, idiotic, and failed though it thankfully was — was and will always be worse.
We can lament our situation. We can analyze how we got here. We can try to learn lessons from what has happened. We have to do all these things.
Paradoxically, however, Trump’s reckless venality is a reason for hope. Trump has the soul of a fascist but the mind of a disordered child.
Trump’s victory is a grim day for the United States and for democracies around the world.
You have every right to be appalled, saddened, shocked, and frightened.
Soon, however, you should dust yourself off, square your shoulders, and take a deep breath. Americans who care about democracy have work to do.
Trump winning in 2016 was like a trapdoor we didn’t even know existed opening suddenly under our feet.
This is going to be bad. But we shouldn’t be concussed like we were in 2016.
sobering reality.
Sen. Ted Cruz handily defeated Democratic Rep. Colin Allred to win a third term in the U.S. Senate.
surmount difficulties.
The house was surmounted by a tall chimney.
surmounted vs overcome
He shows great discernment in his choice of friends.
We're coming back. It's a snafu, that's all.
Sullying the reputation of this beautiful girl.
Volkswagen’s woes illustrate Germany’s creeping deindustrialisation.
Space may be worse for humans than thought. - Why going into orbit sends cells haywire.
It's not just all sunshine and rainbows.
The banks should have been more circumspect in their dealings.
Dannay and Lee remained circumspect about their writing methods.
measures to resuscitate the ailing Japanese economy.
Measles ails the little girl.
The weather here is notoriously fickle.
a wizened, weather-beaten old man.
Young man....patience, and a smidgen of humility might also serve you well.
a smidge of salt.
He worked as a door-to-door salesman peddling cloths and brushes.
I detest those who deceive me.
Rules on privacy, data and espionage are splintering.
nudge.
impregnable, impregnate.
So now I'm going to add a sachet of yeast to each glass.
Happened in real life or audio/video that I can resonate with a scene/context.
It's your decision, we won't begrudge you either way.
Young man....patience, and a smidgen of humility might also serve you well.
vivid, absurd, "outrageous", hilarious expressions.
And the more parsimonious you are, the more economically dense each byte that everyone has to retain on the ledger is.
he has a quasi-religious zeal for economic freedom
Inside China’s disciplinary centres for “deviant” youth.
He never allowed his work to impinge on his private life.
Somewhere along the way snakes start sort of morphing into dragons.
Some people imbue meaning and sentimental importance to certain objects. My dad saw his wedding ring like that. It was a sacred token. And now he’d lost it.
He wasn’t forlorn. He laughed even. That’s how he is. That’s how I am. That’s how we are. I’m his boy, as he still sometimes reminds me. But I know what that ring meant to him.
A female comedian has Chinese men up in arms.
This is going to be bad. But we shouldn’t be concussed like we were in 2016.
sobering reality.
Volkswagen’s woes illustrate Germany’s creeping deindustrialisation.
It's not just all sunshine and rainbows.
The weather here is notoriously fickle.