2019年2月1日 星期五

Crush, unheralded, effusion, aclaimed;

Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89

“All the Pretty Horses,” “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” are among his acclaimed books that explore a bleak world of violence and outsiders.


Urban Dictionary: Crush

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When you have a crush on someone it means you have developed a strong desire for another person. Eventually it may grow into true love or your feelings might wear away so don't jump into conclusions and mistake a silly crush for love. A crush might make you get butterflies in your stomach, shy, and blushful. Your crush ...
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A whole industry is built around a fetish for schoolgirls. Some men say they do not need to marry; their crushes give them the romantic fulfilment they need


"It was the old New York way of taking life 'without effusion of blood': the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than 'scenes,' except the behavior of those who gave rise to them."
—THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1920) by Edith Wharton

Review: A Stylishly Blood-and-Guts Tenor in the Met Opera's 'Werther'

By ZACHARY WOOLFE

Vittorio Grigolo, the tenor in this Massenet work, moves energetically through his instrument, and he was matched, effusion for effusion, in the orchestra pit.

Flying goalkeepers are one of football's most thrilling sights, but they are cheap and unheralded when compared to their super-star teammates

Why football’s goalkeepers are cheap and unheralded
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According to ICP’s Maya Benton, who curated Rediscovered, Vishniac’s known body of work is really a narrow (albeit excellent) entry point to a much broader appreciation of his vast and varied archive. A mere one to two percent of his photos have ever been published, Benton points out, suggesting that the exhibition’s broad scope — including his work in photo microscopy, personal correspondence and other treasures — will be a revelation not only to the uninitiated, but to those who might have felt that they already knew all there was to know about the long-unheralded master.




Crush

Person you like and/or attracted to They call it a crush because it crushes your soul and everything you stand for.







effusion




NOUN

  • 1An instance of giving off something such as a liquid or gas.
    ‘a massive effusion of poisonous gas’
    mass noun ‘he studied the rates of effusion of gases’
    1. 1.1Medicine An escape of fluid into a body cavity.
      ‘middle ear effusions’
  • 2An act of talking or writing in an unrestrained or heartfelt way.
    ‘literary effusions’

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin effusio(n-), from effundere ‘pour out’ (see effuse).

Define unheralded: not heralded: such as; not publicly acclaimed; coming or occurring without advance 
unheralded
ʌnˈhɛr(ə)ldɪd/
adjective
  1. not previously announced, expected, or acclaimed.

    "he was unwilling to make an unheralded entrance"

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