glowering, upraise, swoon, redline.security minder, slouching. “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” Her use of W.B. Yeats’s apocalyptic imagery in the title underscores this sense of unraveling,

 I won’t get into the details, more of which are in the book, but that whole morning at the court building, as things went sour, the officer routinely assigned to Ah Peng as a kind of security minder, the agent of what in China is called “stability preservation,” had been slouching in one of the chairs in the lobby. He was a big guy with this glowering look. You could say he was the face of repression.




 Israel Says It Has Proof That Syria Has Used Chemical Weapons

By DAVID E. SANGER and JODI RUDOREN

Tel Aviv made its most definitive statement accusing Syria of using chemical weapons, which President Obama has called a "red line" Syria cannot cross.

 The built environment of London, Bartle Frere once noted, "expresses what the people think, feel or mean, and not what they are told to think, feel or mean." It "grows from within." We may swoon at the engineering and organizational feats of these new cities, with their gleaming airports and sleek monorails. But as Mr. Brook writes: "The true city of the future is not simply the city with the tallest tower or the most stunning skyline but one that is piloted by the diverse, worldly, intelligent people it assembles and forges." For a city truly to succeed, it must allow individuals their freedom as well.

his glowering face

its sword upraised,

The title essay, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” serves as a microcosm of the collection’s themes, examining the disarray and aimlessness in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, where young people drawn by the promise of countercultural freedom instead encounter drug addiction, violence, and fractured identities. Didion’s account, both empathetic and detached, refrains from moral judgment, instead allowing her subjects’ disoriented lives to reveal the broader erosion of societal structure and meaning. Her use of W.B. Yeats’s apocalyptic imagery in the title underscores this sense of unraveling, suggesting that the promise of the 1960s had decayed into chaos.

swoon

(swūn)
intr.v., swooned, swoon·ing, swoons.

1. To faint.
2. To be overwhelmed by ecstatic joy.

n.

1. A fainting spell; syncope. See synonyms at blackout.
2. A state of ecstasy or rapture.

[Middle English swounen, probably from iswowen, in a swoon, from Old English geswōgen, past participle of *swōgan, to suffocate.]

swoon

発音

swúːn

swoonの変化形

swoons (複数形) • swooned (過去形) • swooned (過去分詞) • swooning (現在分詞) • swoons (三人称単数現在)

[動](自)((古))気が遠くなる, 気絶する(faint)；無我夢中になる, 恍惚(こうこつ)となる.

━━[名]気絶, 卒倒, 恍惚.

upraise

(ŭp-rāz')
tr.v., -raised, -rais·ing, -rais·es.
To raise or lift up; elevate.

Definition of redline

verb

[with object]

• 1drive with (a car engine) at or above its rated maximum revolutions per minute:both his engines were redlined now

• 2refuse (a loan or insurance) to someone because they live in an area deemed to be a poor financial risk: banks have redlined loans to buyers
• cancel (a project): this is not the time for the district to redline capital projects

noun

• 1the maximum number of revolutions per minute for a car engine: just over halfway to its 5200 rpm redline

• 2a boundary or limit which should not be crossed.

Origin:

from the use of red as a limit marker, in redline (sense 2 of the verb) a limit marked out by ringing a section of a map

glower

(glou'ər)
intr.v., -ered, -er·ing, -ers.
To look or stare angrily or sullenly. See synonyms at frown.

n.
An angry or sullen look or stare.

[Middle English gloren, probably of Scandinavian origin.]

gloweringly glow'er·ing·ly adv.

verb

[no object]

• have an angry or sullen look on one’s face; scowl:she glowered at him suspiciously [as adjective]: (glowering)his father’s glowering face

noun

[in singular]

• an angry or sullen look: the angry glower on the face of the policeman
  
  
  Derivatives

slouch

/slaʊtʃ/

verb

1. 1.

   stand, move, or sit in a lazy, drooping way.
   "he slouched against the wall"
   
   Similar:
   slump
   
   
   hunch
   
   
   loll
   
   
   droop
   
   
   sag
   
   
   stoop
   
   
   2.
   dated
   bend one side of the brim of (a hat) downwards.
   "a travelling hat slouched over his eyes"
   
   noun
   1.
   a lazy, drooping posture or movement.
   "his stance was a round-shouldered slouch"
   
   2.
   informal
   an incompetent person.
   "my brother was no slouch at making a buck"

gloweringly

adverb

(noun) A sullen or angry stare.
Synonyms:	glare
Usage:	His frown deepened into a glower of resentment.