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Likewise the verb sleep can have the figurative meaning of "being in dormant state", and the adverb furiously can have the figurative meaning "to do an action violently or quickly". figurative meanings of colorless: nondescript, unseen, drab; figurative meanings of green: immature, pertaining to environmental consciousness, newly formed, naive ...
Walking through a forest with a light wind blowing through the pines, sometimes called Shinrin-yoku or "forest bathing". [citation needed] Watching somebody attentively execute a mundane task, such as preparing food; Receiving personal attention, such as having one's makeup applied, hair styled, or a medical exam performed.
A mental disorder that causes adults who receive a head injury to develop a brain tumor that causes them to act like infants, while still possessing the physical traits of an adult. However, the victim of this disorder must not receive any more blows to the head or the effect will become permanent. Head pigeons Invader Zim ("Dark Harvest")
In creating a world in sound, “purple doesn't have as clear a set of connotations” as some other colors, like the sadness of blue or the rage of red, said Nate Sloane, who specializes in the ...
—Edgar Allan Poe "Not the least obeisance made he" (7:3), as illustrated by Gustave Doré (1884) "The Raven" follows an unnamed narrator on a dreary night in December who sits reading "forgotten lore" by the remains of a fire as a way to forget the death of his beloved Lenore. A "tapping at [his] chamber door" reveals nothing, but excites his soul to "burning". The tapping is repeated ...
Deprived of both her babies and traded off like an old mule to a tough, inflexible farmer called Mister (Colman Domingo, looming like the Big Bad Wolf over his household), Celie has Cinderella’s ...
The faster the wind speed, the faster our body heat is taken away and the colder it feels. For example, in a scenario where the actual temperature is 10 degrees but the "feels like" temperature is ...
The Peanuts comic strip character Snoopy, in his imagined persona as the World Famous Author, sometimes begins his novels with the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night." [9] Cartoonist Charles Schulz made Snoopy use this phrase because "it was a cliché, and had been one for a very long time". [10] A book by Schulz, titled Snoopy and "It Was ...