catch-all
She uses "heavy" to describe anything big or adult-like.
decoding
Even though he's more experienced with JavaScript than I am, he can still find it perplexing. Like why 2019 gets interpreted as a number even though it was typed as a string.
drenching
Right after we step into the store, the wind picks up, and the storm rushes through the streets like an overflowing river.
impatience
I'm caught up in a flurry of impatience with myself. But impatience is preferable to feeling undeserving and inadequate.
salesmanship
The salesman, crimped and white-toothed, hovers too much, but he does point me to something worth buying.
self-sufficient
An old woman walking with her spine perpendicular to her hips refuses help with her bags. She's holding one in each hand, and they seem to balance her.
warily
The doctor's office is tucked below street level. It looks grubby and shabby, and the air is thick with the tang of disinfectant.
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Sunday, March 15, 2020
Sunday, March 8, 2020
Week in Seven Words #499
delightful
"I hope I never get tired of this stuff," she says, about cartoonish sculptures on the 14th Street platform of the A and C subway lines. She doesn't want to become jaded.
dining
We eat burgers in a lovely cellar-like restaurant, noisy but cozy.
immerses
She's demolishing a large bag of potato chips while watching a Korean soap opera on her phone.
learned
During the first half of the class, she acts as if she knows everything, and only gradually becomes more open to seeing new ways of solving problems. Others never develop that openness.
patience
The instructor acts as if he has clumsily assembled his patience out of plywood. With each question, each hand waving in the air, it splinters.
sofas
Some of the sofa cushions feel like taut air bubbles shifting under me. One of them, though, has just the right balance between staying firm and giving way.
upper-class
Two elegant, well-groomed dogs are crossing the plaza with a mincing walk, and I wonder if they're 18th century aristocrats who have been reincarnated as canines.
"I hope I never get tired of this stuff," she says, about cartoonish sculptures on the 14th Street platform of the A and C subway lines. She doesn't want to become jaded.
dining
We eat burgers in a lovely cellar-like restaurant, noisy but cozy.
immerses
She's demolishing a large bag of potato chips while watching a Korean soap opera on her phone.
learned
During the first half of the class, she acts as if she knows everything, and only gradually becomes more open to seeing new ways of solving problems. Others never develop that openness.
patience
The instructor acts as if he has clumsily assembled his patience out of plywood. With each question, each hand waving in the air, it splinters.
sofas
Some of the sofa cushions feel like taut air bubbles shifting under me. One of them, though, has just the right balance between staying firm and giving way.
upper-class
Two elegant, well-groomed dogs are crossing the plaza with a mincing walk, and I wonder if they're 18th century aristocrats who have been reincarnated as canines.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Week in Seven Words #151 & #152
Week in Seven Words #151
affective
When the book I've worked on makes its way into the world I feel a nervous happiness.
kick
Short clips of improv comedy are like shots of an energy drink.
perpetual
The blink of the cursor measures time.
ploy
She tries to give me 'supercalifragalisticexpialidocious' as a mathematical solution. I am unmoved.
progress
Step 1: Recognizing a problem. Step 3: Doing something about it. Step 2: Inertia.
scattered
At the front of the line there's usually someone whose library card is lost among a hundred compartments in a purse or whose money is floating around in a bottomless coat pocket.
sheeted
The water is beaten down by the wind.
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Week in Seven Words #152
evacuation
He isn't toilet-trained but he's started to seek out privacy when nature calls. He tries to find a quiet spot in the house where he can stand or sit in his diaper, and if you approach him, he warns you off with a plaintive "No, no..." until he's done.
fluidity
I see the sculpture in the wan cloudy light of a winter afternoon, so I don't realize at first that it has color sliding through it - a pale lavender flowing like liquid through its metal veins.
impressionistic
The view from the window is one gray smear, like a Monet painting of London.
palimpsest
I like historical tours of downtown where you learn that criminals were hanged and traitors shot in the peaceful square where people now eat their lunches by the fountain and text each other.
pragmatically
His expectation of instantaneous results have given way to pragmatism; there's so much more work to do, so much farther to go.
prioritizing
I had a feeling she'd stop being angry with me, because she'd want to know how my date went.
shortcut
He's been asked to sort his toys neatly into drawers. But there are so many of them, and he'd rather be playing than organizing his room. So he labels one drawer the 'everything drawer' and piles as much stuff as possible into it. Unfortunately it doesn't pass inspection.
affective
When the book I've worked on makes its way into the world I feel a nervous happiness.
kick
Short clips of improv comedy are like shots of an energy drink.
perpetual
The blink of the cursor measures time.
ploy
She tries to give me 'supercalifragalisticexpialidocious' as a mathematical solution. I am unmoved.
progress
Step 1: Recognizing a problem. Step 3: Doing something about it. Step 2: Inertia.
scattered
At the front of the line there's usually someone whose library card is lost among a hundred compartments in a purse or whose money is floating around in a bottomless coat pocket.
sheeted
The water is beaten down by the wind.
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Week in Seven Words #152
evacuation
He isn't toilet-trained but he's started to seek out privacy when nature calls. He tries to find a quiet spot in the house where he can stand or sit in his diaper, and if you approach him, he warns you off with a plaintive "No, no..." until he's done.
fluidity
I see the sculpture in the wan cloudy light of a winter afternoon, so I don't realize at first that it has color sliding through it - a pale lavender flowing like liquid through its metal veins.
impressionistic
The view from the window is one gray smear, like a Monet painting of London.
palimpsest
I like historical tours of downtown where you learn that criminals were hanged and traitors shot in the peaceful square where people now eat their lunches by the fountain and text each other.
pragmatically
His expectation of instantaneous results have given way to pragmatism; there's so much more work to do, so much farther to go.
prioritizing
I had a feeling she'd stop being angry with me, because she'd want to know how my date went.
shortcut
He's been asked to sort his toys neatly into drawers. But there are so many of them, and he'd rather be playing than organizing his room. So he labels one drawer the 'everything drawer' and piles as much stuff as possible into it. Unfortunately it doesn't pass inspection.
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