Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning an obsessive love, a state that's almost like a drug. Need like a wolf paces the perimeter of your world, back and forth, back and forth, never letting up. . . . You're appalled by the new appetites within you, kicking their feet and clawing to get out.
Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.
You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described that way. The term is "long-suffering. "
Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood.
Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.
The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.
Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.
If I believe in anything when it comes to writing, and I can't stress enough that I detest writing, it's something that sticks with me not from any English class but from some awfully recondite driver's ed. seminars I had the privilege to audit during my mid-teens, and to this day I probably misunderstand it anyway. It's the term "right of way. "
The habits of the West in terms of consumption.
The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.
Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.
Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.
So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.
In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.
It's not a loup cage, you know,' I told her. 'It's a holding cell. Or safe room. or secure room. I don't think Jim ever settled on a term he could live with. ' 'Aha. It's a loup cage. ' Andrea cleared her throat. 'I touched it with my finger and it hurt. Is that in case of marital problems?
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.
In these early games you're focused on your performance. Just coming out and playing hard. There's not a lot you can do in terms of preparing and in terms of scouting.
'Biblical worldview'. The term means literally a 'view of the world', a biblically informed perspective on all of reality. A worldview is like a mental map that tells you how to navigate the world effectively. It is the imprint of God's objective truth on our inner life.