2024年2月5日 星期一

energize, daunt, daunting, exaltation and aggravation. This In-Depth Occult Investigation Is Not for the Easily Frightened



Still, when she spoke of a half-dozen pending projects, like the album and the memoir, she sounded more energized by finishing them than daunted by the prospect of never having the chance.



Killing unarmed protesters does not seem to daunt Myanmar's army. So injuries to the economy are unlikely to force the junta to retreat


Notification aggregation instead of notification aggravation

 It's a healthily unfastidious attitude. It lets them, and us, approach a great institution with fascinated delight and hard questions, and experience art as a source of both exaltation and aggravation, which is what it is.

2 having a strong dislike of anything dirty or unpleasant:
They were too fastidious to eat in a fast-food restaurant.






Trump’s approval rating sank to 39% in a recent Gallup poll, and he could bring down GOP incumbents with him.

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“Production hell.” Tesla and its chief executive, Elon Musk, are learning what the rest of the car industry already knows: Producing a quarter of a million cars a year is daunting.



Aid in Hand, Clock Ticks for Detroit

President Bush put the government into the daunting role of industrial oversight yesterday by grudgingly throwing a $17.4 billion lifeline to General Motors and Chrysler, a politically sensitive mission that President-elect Barack Obama will soon inherit.

(By Steven Mufson, David Cho and Cecilia Kang, The Washington Post)





It's a healthily unfastidious attitude. It lets them, and us, approach a great institution with fascinated delight and hard questions, and experience art as a source of both exaltation and aggravation, which is what it is.
2 having a strong dislike of anything dirty or unpleasant:
They were too fastidious to eat in a fast-food restaurant.


aggro

Line breaks: aggro
Pronunciation: /ˈaɡrəʊ /NOUN
[MASS NOUN] British INFORMAL
1Aggressive, violent behaviour:they do not usually become involved in aggro
1.1Problems and difficulties:he didn’t have to deal with aggro from the desk clerk

Origin

1960s: abbreviation of aggravation (see aggravate), or of aggression.

aggravation

 noun
ag·​gra·​va·​tion | \ ˌa-grə-ˈvā-shən  \

Definition of aggravation

1an act or circumstance that intensifies something or makes something worseHis interference was an aggravation of the situation.
2the act, action, or result of aggravating something or someoneespecially an increasing in seriousness or severityaggravation of an injury
3IRRITATIONPROVOCATIONHer job involves a lot of stress and aggravation.

daunting
adjective

making you feel slightly frightened or worried about your ability to achieve something:

In spite of unification, the country was still faced with the daunting prospect of overcoming four decades of division.


daunting

dɔːntɪŋ/
adjective
adjective: daunting

seeming difficult to deal with in prospect; intimidating.

"a daunting task"

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