period/full stop, crack pipe, impeach.blandly. he denounced the embrace of blandly functional architecture in efforts to rebuild after World War II.

Joseph Rykwert, 98, Dies; Historian of Architecture Challenged Modernism

A “gloriously erudite” critic, he denounced the embrace of blandly functional architecture in efforts to rebuild after World War II.

HKFP_Voices: Ever since the central government came to a rapid, highly abstract consensus on the Cultural Revolution in the 1981... the discourse has been set in stone: the Cultural Revolution was a disaster, full stop. It’s time to move on," writes Kerry Brown for the China Institute Policy Blog.




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"Quality is a great business plan. Period." — John Lasseter

J. Edgar Hoover lunched there every day for 20 years, taking a blandly predictable chicken soup, cottage cheese and grapefruit. Charles Lindbergh celebrated the first-ever solo trans-Atlantic flight in a Mayflower ballroom. Franklin Delano Roosevelt penned his first inaugural speech in Room 776.
Marion S. Barry Jr., the former mayor of Washington, was seen smoking a crack pipe in 1989 in a Mayflower room; he was later convicted for drug possession. Members of the House pursuing the impeachment of President Bill Clinton interviewed Monica Lewinsky in the hotel’s 10th-floor Presidential Suite a decade later.
And now the Mayflower slapped the definitive punctuation mark on the end of Mr. Spitzer’s political career.


 blandly

blandly

/ˈblandli/

adverb

1. in an uninteresting manner that lacks strong emotion, features, or characteristics.

   "he smiled blandly at me"

impeach Show phonetics
verb [T]
to make a formal statement saying that a public official is guilty of a serious offence in connection with their job, especially in the US:
The governor was impeached for wrongful use of state money.

impeachable Show phonetics
adjective
an impeachable offence

im・peach

--> ━━ vt. （人格・公明さを）問題にする (～ …'s motives 人の動機を疑う）; （…のかどで）責める, 非難する ((of, with)); （公務員を）弾劾する ((for, of, with)).
im・peach・a・ble　━━ a.
im・peach・ment　━━ n.

Crack is a smokable form of cocaine that produces an immediate and more intense high. It comes in off-white chunks or chips called "rocks." Little crumbs of crack are sometimes called "kibbles & bits."


the definitive punctuation mark 即full stop UK noun [C] (US period)
the . punctuation mark that is put at the end of a sentence, or at the end of a word that has been shortened

full stop UK adverb (US period)
used at the end of a sentence, usually when you are angry, to say you will not continue to discuss a subject:
Look, I'm not lending you my car, full stop!

full stop 

Pronunciation:

NOUN

British

1A punctuation mark (.) used at the end of a sentence or an abbreviation.

Example sentences

1.1[AS EXCLAMATION] Used to suggest that there is nothing more to say on a topic:women are just generally better people full stop

More example sentences

1.2A complete cessation:her life had simply come to a full stop

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period (MARK) Show phonetics
noun [C]
1 MAINLY US FOR full stop

2 MAINLY US said at the end of a statement to show that you believe you have said all there is to say on a subject and you are not going to discuss it any more:
There will be no more shouting, period!