Analysis: Donald Trump is president. More than 200,000 Americans are dead from the coronavirus pandemic. And instead of a serious presidential debate about the direction of the country, Trump sent it off the rails.
Witnesses at the blaze in a Russian shopping mall say the fire alarm failed to go off
Chekhov’s narrative principle—that a gun hung on the wall in the first act must eventually go off—has become a metaphorical rule of storytelling. To reflect American reality, Jennifer Clement puts a gun on every wall in every room
“Today, the President of the United States ripped open wounds that have barely begun healing in Charlottesville," CNN's Anderson Coopersaid at the start of his show after President Donald J. Trump's controversial news conference at Trump Tower. http://cnn.it/2x2GiIM
Chekhov’s narrative principle—that a gun hung on the wall in the first act must eventually go off—has become a metaphorical rule of storytelling. To reflect American reality, Jennifer Clement puts a gun on every wall in every room
Chekhov's gun - Wikipedia
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Chekhov's gun. Chekhov's gun is a dramatic principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed; elements should not appear to make "false promises" by never coming into play. ... "Remove everything that has no relevance to the story.“Today, the President of the United States ripped open wounds that have barely begun healing in Charlottesville," CNN's Anderson Coopersaid at the start of his show after President Donald J. Trump's controversial news conference at Trump Tower. http://cnn.it/2x2GiIM
One week after voting to leave the EU, Britain has seldom looked so wildly off the rails
The idea of combining solar power with automaking is a bit like Ford Motors buying ExxonMobil—if both were losing hundreds of millions a year.
“I don’t know if girls can go through puberty any earlier,” says Dr. Frank Biro, who is first author on the study. “We may be approaching a biological minimum.”
Regarded as a whole, Mann's career is a striking example of the "repeated puberty" which Goethe thought characteristic of the genius. In technique as well as in thought, he experienced far more daringly than is generally realized. In Buddenbrooks he wrote one of the last of the great "old-fashioned" novels, a patient, thorough tracing of the fortunes of a family.
go off
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go off
to explode, or to fire bullets: The deer ran away just before the hunter's gun went off.
off the rails. (idiomatic) In an abnormal manner, especially in a manner that causes damage or malfunctioning. (idiomatic) Insane. If someone has gone off the rails, they have lost track of reality.
go off the rails
the fortunes of war
puberty noun [U] ━━ n. 性的成熟（期）, 思春期, 年ごろ.
the stage in a person's life when they develop from a child into an adult because of changes in their body that make them able to have children:
At puberty, pubic hair develops and girls begin to menstruate.
puberty
[ MASS NOUN]
NOUN
Derivatives
adjective
describes someone who is at the stage in their life when they are developing from a child into an adult and becoming able to have children:
pubescent girls/boys
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