by
Don DeLillo
Klieg light
(en)
an intense carbon arc lamp especially used in filmmaking
110
I woke up to silence and chill, the accusations of the klieg lights.
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11 months, 3 weeks ago
I woke up to silence and chill, the accusations of the klieg lights.
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viscid
(en)
(adjective) having an adhesive quality; sticky / (adjective) having a glutinous consistency; viscous / (adjective) covered with a sticky layer
174
Sunlight and viscid insect juice were the colors of those Monday afternoons
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Sunlight and viscid insect juice were the colors of those Monday afternoons
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jalopies
(en)
an old car in a dilapidated condition
206
lissome
(en)
(adjective) easily flexed / (adjective) lithe / (adjective) nimble
215
The girl followed, quite slowly, a lissome blonde of twenty-five or so, in her quiet prime, pretty and tarrying and yet to be hurt, not at all in love.
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The girl followed, quite slowly, a lissome blonde of twenty-five or so, in her quiet prime, pretty and tarrying and yet to be hurt, not at all in love.
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exegesis
(en)
(from the Greek for "to lead out") a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text
248
The new Paramount comedy-western is worth any number of Bergman’s exegetical nightmares.
lol
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The new Paramount comedy-western is worth any number of Bergman’s exegetical nightmares.
lol
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reliquary
(en)
(noun) a container or shrine in which sacred relics are kept
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of coral in this strange place, suggesting a reliquary sea, and of the blessed semblance of God on the faces of superstitious mountains
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of coral in this strange place, suggesting a reliquary sea, and of the blessed semblance of God on the faces of superstitious mountains
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