"As both a criminologist and a US citizen, it is clear to me that fundamental changes in our structures of policing are needed" – Cambridge criminologist tells White House task force that translating UK models of policing to US is the best hope in a generation for tackling dangerous rates of ‘justifiable’ homicides committed by US police, and the resultant haemorrhaging of police legitimacy across the nation.
"I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”
– Virginia Woolf
Who was Robin Williams? Or rather who were? He became an overnight TV sensation playing an amiable extraterrestrial on Mork & Mindy. In his first movie, Popeye, he starred as a comic-strip sailor. His chameleonic Genie in Aladdin ransacked the attic of comic caricatures.
The film company has also postponed the release of exorcism film The Rite, starring Anthony Hopkins, which was due to open this coming weekend.
By JOHN PIPKIN
Reviewed by BRENDA WINEAPPLE
Reviewed by BRENDA WINEAPPLE
This novel of a young Thoreau setting fire to 300 acres of Concord forest is in effect a wily prequel to “Walden.”
He was a Nietzschean shaman who regarded art as a mysterious, magical force, offering the possibility of exorcism and transfiguration; a chameleon who effortlessly moved back and forth between Cubism and classicism, irony and sentimentality, cruelty and tenderness; a wily, self-mythologizing sorcerer who inhaled history, ideas and a cornucopia of styles with fierce, promiscuous abandon — all toward the end of exploding conventional ways of looking at the world and remaking that world anew.
驅魔（邪）禮 exorcism
- [éksɔːrsìzm]
[名]
1 [U]悪魔払い, やく払い.
2 魔よけ（の儀式）；魔よけ［やく払い］の呪文(じゅもん)
3 いやな記憶・経験の消去.
carry out an exorcism
魔よけをする.
魔よけをする.
transfiguration
[名]
1 [U][C]変形, 変貌(へんぼう).
2 ((the T-))（山上の）キリストの変容〈《聖書》マタイ書17：1-9〉；((T-))その祝日（8月6日）.
transfiguration of Christ ：耶穌顯容；耶穌變聖容：耶穌在世時曾在三位元宗徒面前，顯示祂天主性的榮耀，藉以彰顯其默西亞的使命（參閱瑪十七）。
wily
Pronunciation: /ˈwʌɪli/
Definition of wily adjective (wilier, wiliest)
Derivatives wilily
adverb wiliness
noun
chameleon
Pronunciation: /kəˈmiːlɪən /
(also chamaeleon)
NOUN
1A small slow-moving Old World lizard with a prehensile tail, long extensible tongue, protruding eyes that rotate independently, and a highly developed ability to change colour.
- Family Chamaeleonidae: four genera, in particularChamaeleo, and numerous species, including theEuropean chameleon (C. vulgaris)
Origin
Middle English: via Latin chamaeleon from Greekkhamaileōn, from khamai 'on the ground' + leōn 'lion'.
ransack
Line breaks: ran|sack
Pronunciation: /ˈransak /
VERB
Origin
Middle English: from Old Norse rannsaka, from rann'house' + a second element related to sœkja 'seek'.
Pronunciation: /sɪŋk /
VERB (past sank /saŋk/; past participle sunk /sʌŋk/)
1[NO OBJECT] Go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged:he saw the coffin sink below the surface of the waves
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCESSYNONYMS
1.1(Of a ship) go to the bottom of the sea or some other body of water because of damage or acollision:the trawler sank with the loss of all six crew
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCESSYNONYMS
1.2[WITH OBJECT] Cause (a ship) to sink:a freak wave sank their boat near the shore
1.3 Fail and not be seen or heard of again:the film sank virtually without trace
1.4[WITH OBJECT] Cause to fail:this pledge could sink the government
1.5[WITH OBJECT] Conceal, keep in the background, orignore:they agreed to sink their differences
2[NO OBJECT] Descend from a higher to a lower position; drop downwards:you can relax on the veranda as the sun sinks low
2.1(Of a person) lower oneself or drop down gently:she sank back on to her pillow
2.2[WITH ADVERBIAL OF DIRECTION] Gradually penetrateinto the surface of something:her feet sank into the thick pile of the carpet
3[NO OBJECT] Gradually decrease or decline in value,amount, quality, or intensity:their output sank to a third of the pre-war figure
3.1 Lapse or fall into a particular state or condition:he sank into a coma after suffering a brainhaemorrhage
3.2Approach death:the doctor concluded that the lad was sinkingfast
4[WITH OBJECT] Insert beneath a surface:rails fixed in place with screws sunk below the surface of the wood
4.1(sink something into) Cause something sharp topenetrate (a surface):the dog sank its teeth into her arm
4.2[WITH OBJECT AND ADVERBIAL] Push or thrust (an object) into something:Kelly stood watching, her hands sunk deep into her pockets
4.3Excavate (a well) or bore (a shaft) verticallydownwards:they planned to sink a gold mine in Oklahoma
4.4Hit (a ball) into a hole in golf or snooker:he sank the black into the green pocket to securevictory
4.5(In golf) hit the ball into the hole with (a putt or other shot):he sank a four-foot birdie putt at the fifth hole
5[WITH OBJECT] British informal Rapidly consume (analcoholic drink):English players sinking a few post-match lagers
Origin
old english sincan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutchzinken and German sinken.
Usage
Historically, the past tense of sink has been both sankand sunk ( the boat sank; the boat sunk) and the past participle has been both sunk and sunken ( the boat had already sunk; the boat had already sunken). Inmodern English the past is generally sank and the past participle is sunk, with the form sunken now survivingonly as an adjective, as in a sunken garden or sunkencheeks.
Phrases
a (or that) sinking feeling 1
An unpleasant feeling caused by the realization that something unpleasant or undesirable has happened or is about to happen:even to name the sum brought a sinking feeling to her stomach
sink or swim 2
Fail or succeed entirely by one’s own efforts:the bank does not leave its newcomers to sink or swim by themselvestheir businesses can sink or swim on the use of American technology
Phrasal verbs
sink in 1
(Of words or facts) be fully understood or realized:Peter read the letter twice before its meaning sank in
sink something in/into 2
Put money or energy into (something); investsomething in:many investors sank their life savings into the company
Derivatives
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛmərɪdʒ /
(US hemorrhage)
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