affection
Squeezed into a seat on the subway, a young girl hugs her younger brother on her lap and kisses him repeatedly on the back of the head.
coloring
She soaks her feet in a foot bath with a bath bomb that dyes her legs faintly blue.
idly
The boats on the pier are massive and idle. A gangplank has extended from one of them but no one walks on it. It's a drowsy day.
massively
The massive clouds make the buildings by the harbor look small and brittle.
posture
Asleep in his seat, he has bent forward so much, his face is parallel to the floor.
security
Gates and guards and more gates around an ominous complex that makes us nervous just going near it, as if there's an unseen line we can't cross unless we want to fall under suspicion.
streets
We walk on streets that are chiseled like diamonds, the glass buildings cut in spectacular shapes. We also walk on streets that are narrow and made narrower by heaps of garbage bags.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Week in Seven Words #255
anticipatory
He'll ask you a question he thinks you can't answer. As you pause to think, he'll line up the first words of his lecture. Don't disappoint him by knowing the answer.
gravelly
Her voice comes at me in puffs and crackles from hundreds of miles away.
minacious
Not for a minute do I buy into his kindly Kris Kringle routine. There's a knife's edge to his smile, the glint of a blade.
ping-pong
They leave their office doors open so they can banter across the hallway.
reckoning
As the elevator takes us down, she crouches in a corner, her arms wrapped around her knees, and watches the numbers with solemn attention.
shuffling
It's a dystopian scene, the gray crowds removing shoes and belts before filing through the metal detectors.
testy
As they give him advice, he turns his cellphone over and over on the table, his leg shuddering up and down. From time to time, he starts to say something - to defend himself or make himself look more experienced than he is - but they talk over him, and he subsides into a disgruntled silence.
He'll ask you a question he thinks you can't answer. As you pause to think, he'll line up the first words of his lecture. Don't disappoint him by knowing the answer.
gravelly
Her voice comes at me in puffs and crackles from hundreds of miles away.
minacious
Not for a minute do I buy into his kindly Kris Kringle routine. There's a knife's edge to his smile, the glint of a blade.
ping-pong
They leave their office doors open so they can banter across the hallway.
reckoning
As the elevator takes us down, she crouches in a corner, her arms wrapped around her knees, and watches the numbers with solemn attention.
shuffling
It's a dystopian scene, the gray crowds removing shoes and belts before filing through the metal detectors.
testy
As they give him advice, he turns his cellphone over and over on the table, his leg shuddering up and down. From time to time, he starts to say something - to defend himself or make himself look more experienced than he is - but they talk over him, and he subsides into a disgruntled silence.
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