This Dog at Marina Park is so Beautiful & Smart.
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Monday, September 12, 2005
Beautiful Sunset!
I visited Kirkland, WA, I had a massage and than went to dinner at Jager a German Restaurant there. I stopped at the Marina Park, before dinner, and after dinner chose to follow a different route and stopped to take photos of this most incredible sunset. I love the way the sun reflects on the water and sun is such an intense yellow orange. It was a nice day. I kept remembering though that it was the anniversary of September 11, 2001. I reflected on this tragedy while snapping photographs. I visited New York City when I was fifteen. My Dad let me drive in traffic and I loved the energy of the city. The September 11th tragedy is a marker for my own personal tragedy. My precious dog, Zoe, a minature mastiff, was killed, run over by someone who did not stop or care. I screamed bloody murder and strained my voice so bad that I could barely talk. I picked her up and carried her to the front steps of my house. I felt as if it was my fault. I cried and cried, I tried to reach someone on the phone. No one answered, my mom, my brother, my aunt, my x-boyfriend etc. No one answered. I had previously called the police, thank god, the policeman came and tried to calm me down and told me to put my other dog Zephyr somewhere, I chose the bathroom. My personal tragedy happened the Friday before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. I miss that little Apricot dog Zoe. I still think of her and miss her especially during this time of year, the start of fall and the month of September. This story could go on and on, but that is all I feel like telling at this time.
Tami
Tami
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Deluxe Orange Muffins
Recipe 1001 Muffins by Gregg R. Gillespie
Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup Triple Sec
1/2 cup Orange Juice
1 tablespoon grated orange zest
Procedure:
1) Position the rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees. Lightly grease or line with paper baking cups eighteen 2 3/4-inch muffin cups.
2) In a large bowl, blend together the flour, baking powder, and salt. In a medium bowl, beat the egg until foamy. Beat in the sugar. Beat in the oil, Triple Sec, juice and orange zest. Combine the two mixtures, blending until the dry ingredients are just moistened being careful not to overmix.
3) Drop 1 heaping tablespoon of the batter into the prepared muffin cups. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the muffin touched bounces back. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes before transferring the muffins to a wire rack to cool completely. If desired brush with the Honey Glaze after the 5 minutes of cooling and it will set as the muffins continue to cool.
The muffins can be served with a Honey Glaze:
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
3/4 cup honey
1/3 cup light corn syrup
Procedure:
In a small saucepan set over medium heat, combine the butter and honey and cook, stirring, until smooth. Stir in the corn syrup. Remove from heat and pour into a bowl.
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Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup Triple Sec
1/2 cup Orange Juice
1 tablespoon grated orange zest
Procedure:
1) Position the rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees. Lightly grease or line with paper baking cups eighteen 2 3/4-inch muffin cups.
2) In a large bowl, blend together the flour, baking powder, and salt. In a medium bowl, beat the egg until foamy. Beat in the sugar. Beat in the oil, Triple Sec, juice and orange zest. Combine the two mixtures, blending until the dry ingredients are just moistened being careful not to overmix.
3) Drop 1 heaping tablespoon of the batter into the prepared muffin cups. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the muffin touched bounces back. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes before transferring the muffins to a wire rack to cool completely. If desired brush with the Honey Glaze after the 5 minutes of cooling and it will set as the muffins continue to cool.
The muffins can be served with a Honey Glaze:
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
3/4 cup honey
1/3 cup light corn syrup
Procedure:
In a small saucepan set over medium heat, combine the butter and honey and cook, stirring, until smooth. Stir in the corn syrup. Remove from heat and pour into a bowl.
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Zen and the Art of Cooking by Jon Sandifer
Taken from the fabulous book, Zen and the Art of Cooking by Jon Sandifer
Too much water: If we continually use too much water in our cooking the food can turn out limp and soggy. The ultimate expression of the Water phase would be eating raw food exclusively, which would suppress or negate the presence of Fire in the preparation. Too much water food in general will put out the Fire in our chi.
Too much fire: Naturally, if we overcook our food then it will take on the qualities of the Metal phase and become dry, burnt, and brittle. A good example of this is burning our bread when we meant to only toast it.
too much metal: Overcooking our food ultimately destroys the essence of Wood chi-the freshness that Wood energy brings to our food.
Too much wood: If our food is consistently cooked for too short a time it does not allow the richness and the mellowness of the Earth element to evolve.
Too much earth: If we consistently prepare meals that are cooked slowly over a long period of time this style can prevent the "essence", represented by the water element, from coming through. Such a dish is likely to have only one overall flavor and may not reveal the hidden qualities of the different ingredients.
"If you care enough for the result you will almost always attain it" -William James
I believe this to be true, that when cooking take the time to prepare what will nourish both your stomach and your soul.
Tami
Too much water: If we continually use too much water in our cooking the food can turn out limp and soggy. The ultimate expression of the Water phase would be eating raw food exclusively, which would suppress or negate the presence of Fire in the preparation. Too much water food in general will put out the Fire in our chi.
Too much fire: Naturally, if we overcook our food then it will take on the qualities of the Metal phase and become dry, burnt, and brittle. A good example of this is burning our bread when we meant to only toast it.
too much metal: Overcooking our food ultimately destroys the essence of Wood chi-the freshness that Wood energy brings to our food.
Too much wood: If our food is consistently cooked for too short a time it does not allow the richness and the mellowness of the Earth element to evolve.
Too much earth: If we consistently prepare meals that are cooked slowly over a long period of time this style can prevent the "essence", represented by the water element, from coming through. Such a dish is likely to have only one overall flavor and may not reveal the hidden qualities of the different ingredients.
"If you care enough for the result you will almost always attain it" -William James
I believe this to be true, that when cooking take the time to prepare what will nourish both your stomach and your soul.
Tami
Monday, September 05, 2005
My Brother and I in Black & White
I actually like this in Black & White it looks cool with Jonathan's Sunglasses and Hat.
Zephyr's Tongue!
My big dog Zephyr caught licking the side of his face, he even has purple bows in his fur.
dog
zephyr
border collie
dog
zephyr
border collie
Banana CupCake!
Waiting until after the movie to eat this! I went to see Wedding Crashers tonight and loved it! Too Funny!
I like how the Banana CupCake and the building appear to be similar in color!
I like how the Banana CupCake and the building appear to be similar in color!
Originally uploaded by taminsea1.
Clouds Reflection Black & White
Cloudy & Sunny Day in Bellevue, WA created this great shot for me that almost looks surreal.
Black & White Space Needle
Taken from bottom of Space Needle, but a little further back with Zoom Lens.
Black & White Space Needle II
This looks great with the blue sky, but I think I like the Black & White a lot too.
Beautiful Day!
Bellevue, WA This is a set of photographs of a Beautiful Day at the downtown Bellevue Park!
Pink Buttercream Cupcake with sprinkles and a white cake stump!
From "New York Cupcakes" at the Bellevue Square Mall.
Pink Cupcake leaving the Mall!
I like the way the light is hitting the cupcake, it looks like it will melt any minute.
Sunday, September 04, 2005
mourn
This black ribbon originally uploaded by Amber known as Culinary Novice on Flickr I decided to blog to mourn the deaths and to have something this black ribbon, if it is even possible to symbolize this devastation and tragedy. To Donate for the disaster relief fund for Hurricane Katrina Call 1-800 HELP NOW
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Driving the Cupcake!
I waited until after I saw two movies to eat this cupcake! I saw Broken Flowers and the 40 Year Old Virgin.
Sign for the movies I went to on Sunday Night!
I saw Broken Flowers and than I went to see the 40 Year Old Virgin.
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Blue Sky with Clouds against Bronze Building with Reflection Clouds!
Blue Sky with Clouds against Bronze Building with Reflection Clouds!
Originally uploaded by taminsea1.
Word of the Day for Tuesday August 30, 2005
evanescent \ev-uh-NES-uhnt\, adjective:
Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; fleeting.
The Pen which gives. . . permanence to the evanescent
thought of a moment.
--Horace Smith, Tin Trumpet
Every tornado is a little different, and they are all
capricious, evanescent and hard to get a fix on.
--"Oklahoma Tornado Offers Hints of How a Killer Storm Is
Born," [1]New York Times, May 11, 1999
The accidentally famous. . . may write books, appear on
talk shows, and, in so doing, attract even greater public
attention. This type of celebrity status, of course, is
brittle and evanescent.
--Lawrence M. Friedman, [2]The Horizontal Society
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Evanescent is from Latin evanescere, "to vanish," from e-,
"from, out of" + vanescere, "to disappear," from vanus,
"empty."
Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; fleeting.
The Pen which gives. . . permanence to the evanescent
thought of a moment.
--Horace Smith, Tin Trumpet
Every tornado is a little different, and they are all
capricious, evanescent and hard to get a fix on.
--"Oklahoma Tornado Offers Hints of How a Killer Storm Is
Born," [1]New York Times, May 11, 1999
The accidentally famous. . . may write books, appear on
talk shows, and, in so doing, attract even greater public
attention. This type of celebrity status, of course, is
brittle and evanescent.
--Lawrence M. Friedman, [2]The Horizontal Society
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Evanescent is from Latin evanescere, "to vanish," from e-,
"from, out of" + vanescere, "to disappear," from vanus,
"empty."
Sun Reflecting on the Bronze building in Bellevue, WA.
Sun Reflecting on the Bronze building in Bellevue, WA.
Cupcake in the Jeep!
I like this photograph, a Black & White Cupcake from New York Cupcakes taken in my Jeep!
Monday, August 29, 2005
Word of the Day for Monday August 29, 2005
unctuous \UNGK-choo-us\, adjective:
1. Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty;
oily; greasy.
2. Having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals.
3. Insincerely or excessively suave or ingratiating in manner
or speech; marked by a false or smug earnestness or
agreeableness.
A warmed, crusty French roll arrives split, lightly smeared
with unctuous chopped liver.
--John Kessler, "Meals To Go: Break from the routine with
Hong," [1]Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 22, 1998
She recalled being offended by the "phoniness" that stemmed
from the contradiction between her mother's charming, even
unctuous public manner and her anger in private.
--Daniel Horowitz, [2]Betty Friedan And the Making of 'The
Feminine Mystique'
He approached Sean wearing a smile so unctuous it seemed
about to slide right off his face.
--Naeem Murr, [3]The Boy
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Unctuous is from Medieval Latin unctuosus, from Latin unctus,
"anointed, besmeared, greasy," past participle of unguere, "to
anoint, to besmear."
1. Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty;
oily; greasy.
2. Having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals.
3. Insincerely or excessively suave or ingratiating in manner
or speech; marked by a false or smug earnestness or
agreeableness.
A warmed, crusty French roll arrives split, lightly smeared
with unctuous chopped liver.
--John Kessler, "Meals To Go: Break from the routine with
Hong," [1]Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 22, 1998
She recalled being offended by the "phoniness" that stemmed
from the contradiction between her mother's charming, even
unctuous public manner and her anger in private.
--Daniel Horowitz, [2]Betty Friedan And the Making of 'The
Feminine Mystique'
He approached Sean wearing a smile so unctuous it seemed
about to slide right off his face.
--Naeem Murr, [3]The Boy
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Unctuous is from Medieval Latin unctuosus, from Latin unctus,
"anointed, besmeared, greasy," past participle of unguere, "to
anoint, to besmear."
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Annie, Nick and Victor!
Annie my Cousin Suzie's Daughter & her Son Nick with Victor my Cousin Kimberly's Son.
Word of the Day for Sunday August 28, 2005
canorous \kuh-NOR-uhs; KAN-or-uhs\, adjective:
Richly melodious; pleasant sounding; musical.
I felt a deep contentment listening to the meadowlark's
complex melody as he sat on his bragging post calling for a
mate, and the soft canorous whistle of the bobwhite as he
whistled his name with intermittent lulls.
--Donna R. La Plante, "Remember When: The prairie after a
spring rain," [1]Kansas City Star, March 16, 2003
But birds that are canorous and whose notes we most
commend, are of little throats, and short necks, as
Nightingales, Finches, Linnets, Canary birds and Larks.
--Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
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Canorous comes from the Latin canor, "melody," from canere,
"to sing." It is related to chant, from French chanter, "to
sing," ultimately from Latin canere.
Richly melodious; pleasant sounding; musical.
I felt a deep contentment listening to the meadowlark's
complex melody as he sat on his bragging post calling for a
mate, and the soft canorous whistle of the bobwhite as he
whistled his name with intermittent lulls.
--Donna R. La Plante, "Remember When: The prairie after a
spring rain," [1]Kansas City Star, March 16, 2003
But birds that are canorous and whose notes we most
commend, are of little throats, and short necks, as
Nightingales, Finches, Linnets, Canary birds and Larks.
--Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
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Canorous comes from the Latin canor, "melody," from canere,
"to sing." It is related to chant, from French chanter, "to
sing," ultimately from Latin canere.
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Word of the Day for Saturday August 27, 2005
descant \DES-kant\, noun:
1. (Music) (a) A melody or counterpoint sung above the plain
song of the tenor. (b) The upper voice in part music.
2. A discourse or discussion on a theme.
\DES-kant; des-KANT; dis-\, intransitive verb:
1. (a) To sing or play a descant. (b) To sing.
2. To comment freely; to discourse at length.
[T]hese to their nests,
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;
She all night long her amorous descant sung.
--John Milton, [1]Paradise Lost
When they start on one of their polarised descants, whether
on state education, water rates, crime, the BBC or
whatever, they sound like a bumble bee and a wasp fighting
in a jam jar.
--Gillian Reynolds, "The biggest things to hit radio,"
[2]Daily Telegraph, May 14, 1999
Mr. Ackroyd's descant on "Great Expectations" is the work
of a master.
--Alison Lurie, "Hanging Out With Hogarth," [3]New York
Times, October 11, 1992
In a custom associated with Athenian gatherings but almost
certainly followed elsewhere as well, a myrtle branch was
passed around the room, and each of the assembled would
descant as the wine flowed.
--David Barber, "Children of Orpheus," [4]The Atlantic,
June 10, 1998
The police amusingly descant on these jottings: "I can't
believe he'd ever write a sentence like 'I shall be
compelled to take steps to silence you!'"
--Christopher Buckley, "The Chekhov of Coldsands-on-Sea,"
[5]New York Times, November 16, 1997
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Descant is derived from Medieval Latin discantus, "a refrain,"
from Latin dis- + cantus, "song," from the past participle of
canere, "to sing."
1. (Music) (a) A melody or counterpoint sung above the plain
song of the tenor. (b) The upper voice in part music.
2. A discourse or discussion on a theme.
\DES-kant; des-KANT; dis-\, intransitive verb:
1. (a) To sing or play a descant. (b) To sing.
2. To comment freely; to discourse at length.
[T]hese to their nests,
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;
She all night long her amorous descant sung.
--John Milton, [1]Paradise Lost
When they start on one of their polarised descants, whether
on state education, water rates, crime, the BBC or
whatever, they sound like a bumble bee and a wasp fighting
in a jam jar.
--Gillian Reynolds, "The biggest things to hit radio,"
[2]Daily Telegraph, May 14, 1999
Mr. Ackroyd's descant on "Great Expectations" is the work
of a master.
--Alison Lurie, "Hanging Out With Hogarth," [3]New York
Times, October 11, 1992
In a custom associated with Athenian gatherings but almost
certainly followed elsewhere as well, a myrtle branch was
passed around the room, and each of the assembled would
descant as the wine flowed.
--David Barber, "Children of Orpheus," [4]The Atlantic,
June 10, 1998
The police amusingly descant on these jottings: "I can't
believe he'd ever write a sentence like 'I shall be
compelled to take steps to silence you!'"
--Christopher Buckley, "The Chekhov of Coldsands-on-Sea,"
[5]New York Times, November 16, 1997
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Descant is derived from Medieval Latin discantus, "a refrain,"
from Latin dis- + cantus, "song," from the past participle of
canere, "to sing."
Friday, August 26, 2005
Word of the Day for Friday August 26, 2005
bagatelle \bag-uh-TEL\, noun:
1. A trifle; a thing of little or no importance.
2. A short, light musical or literary piece.
3. A game played with a cue and balls on an oblong table
having cups or arches at one end.
Don't worry about that, a mere bagatelle, old boy!
--Eric Ellis, "Error Message," [1]Time, February 10, 2000
You know how it often happens; these strifes and disputes
frequently originate from a mere bagatelle.
--Alessandro Manzoni, [2]I Promessi Sposi
Excepting the regulars, the troops were raw as were
likewise most of their officers; and this march of
twenty-seven miles, which a year later would have been
considered a bagatelle, was now a mighty undertaking.
--James Ford Rhodes, [3]History of the Civil War
So if you eat at his restaurant every day -- off the menu,
of course -- and slosh the grub down with a 1966 Chateau
Margaux (£800-£1,000 a bottle in a restaurant), even a Ritz
bill will seem a mere bagatelle.
--"Do you take cash?" [4]The Guardian, December 23, 1999
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Bagatelle derives from Italian bagattella, "a trifling matter;
a bagatelle," perhaps ultimately from Latin baca, "a berry."
1. A trifle; a thing of little or no importance.
2. A short, light musical or literary piece.
3. A game played with a cue and balls on an oblong table
having cups or arches at one end.
Don't worry about that, a mere bagatelle, old boy!
--Eric Ellis, "Error Message," [1]Time, February 10, 2000
You know how it often happens; these strifes and disputes
frequently originate from a mere bagatelle.
--Alessandro Manzoni, [2]I Promessi Sposi
Excepting the regulars, the troops were raw as were
likewise most of their officers; and this march of
twenty-seven miles, which a year later would have been
considered a bagatelle, was now a mighty undertaking.
--James Ford Rhodes, [3]History of the Civil War
So if you eat at his restaurant every day -- off the menu,
of course -- and slosh the grub down with a 1966 Chateau
Margaux (£800-£1,000 a bottle in a restaurant), even a Ritz
bill will seem a mere bagatelle.
--"Do you take cash?" [4]The Guardian, December 23, 1999
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Bagatelle derives from Italian bagattella, "a trifling matter;
a bagatelle," perhaps ultimately from Latin baca, "a berry."
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Word of the Day for Thursday August 25, 2005
peccadillo \peck-uh-DIL-oh\, noun:
A slight offense; a petty fault.
No peccadillo is too trivial: we learn that the mogul once
blew his top because his laundry came back starched
("'Fluff and fold!' he screamed").
--Eric P. Nash, "High Concept," [1]New York Times, May 10,
1998
And besides, "what do they say? 'Don't judge lest you be
judged.' Everybody has their peccadilloes."
-- "Tyson has a friend in his corner," [2]Irish Times,
October 21,1999
Child of a dominant mother, victim of a guilt-ridden
conscience, [St. Augustine] wrote bewilderingly haunted
'Confessions,' in which infantile peccadilloes like
stealing apples and adolescent fumblings with instinctive
sexuality are bewailed with all the anguish of a frustrated
perfectionist.
--Geoffrey Parker, "True Believers," [3]New York Times,
June 29, 1997
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Peccadillo comes from Spanish pecadillo, "little sin,"
diminutive of pecado, "sin," from Latin peccatum, from
peccare, "to make a mistake, to err, to sin." It is related to
impeccable, "without flaw or fault."
A slight offense; a petty fault.
No peccadillo is too trivial: we learn that the mogul once
blew his top because his laundry came back starched
("'Fluff and fold!' he screamed").
--Eric P. Nash, "High Concept," [1]New York Times, May 10,
1998
And besides, "what do they say? 'Don't judge lest you be
judged.' Everybody has their peccadilloes."
-- "Tyson has a friend in his corner," [2]Irish Times,
October 21,1999
Child of a dominant mother, victim of a guilt-ridden
conscience, [St. Augustine] wrote bewilderingly haunted
'Confessions,' in which infantile peccadilloes like
stealing apples and adolescent fumblings with instinctive
sexuality are bewailed with all the anguish of a frustrated
perfectionist.
--Geoffrey Parker, "True Believers," [3]New York Times,
June 29, 1997
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Peccadillo comes from Spanish pecadillo, "little sin,"
diminutive of pecado, "sin," from Latin peccatum, from
peccare, "to make a mistake, to err, to sin." It is related to
impeccable, "without flaw or fault."
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Word of the Day for Wednesday August 24, 2005
expatiate \ek-SPAY-shee-ayt\, intransitive verb:
1. To speak or write at length or in considerable detail.
2. To move about freely; to wander.
He had told her all he had been asked to tell--or all he
meant to tell: at any rate he had been given abundant
opportunity to expatiate upon a young man's darling
subject--himself.
--Henry Blake Fuller, [1]Bertram Cope's Year
At the midday meal on fair day, a large one (meat loaf,
boiled potato, broccoli), Mrs. Lucas, married to the man
with the earache, expatiates on the difficulties of caring
for a parakeet her daughter has unloaded upon her and
which, let out of its cage for an airing, has escaped
through the door suddenly opened by Mr. Lucas.
--William H. Pritchard, [2]Updike: America's Man of Letters
His relationship with his family was for many years an
unhappy one, and he does not care to expatiate upon it.
--Barbara La Fontaine, "Triple Threat On, Off And Off-Off
Broadway," [3]New York Times, February 25, 1968
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Expatiate is from Latin expatiari, "to walk or go far and
wide," from ex-, "out" + spatiari, "to walk about," from
1. To speak or write at length or in considerable detail.
2. To move about freely; to wander.
He had told her all he had been asked to tell--or all he
meant to tell: at any rate he had been given abundant
opportunity to expatiate upon a young man's darling
subject--himself.
--Henry Blake Fuller, [1]Bertram Cope's Year
At the midday meal on fair day, a large one (meat loaf,
boiled potato, broccoli), Mrs. Lucas, married to the man
with the earache, expatiates on the difficulties of caring
for a parakeet her daughter has unloaded upon her and
which, let out of its cage for an airing, has escaped
through the door suddenly opened by Mr. Lucas.
--William H. Pritchard, [2]Updike: America's Man of Letters
His relationship with his family was for many years an
unhappy one, and he does not care to expatiate upon it.
--Barbara La Fontaine, "Triple Threat On, Off And Off-Off
Broadway," [3]New York Times, February 25, 1968
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Expatiate is from Latin expatiari, "to walk or go far and
wide," from ex-, "out" + spatiari, "to walk about," from
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Word of the Day for Tuesday August 23, 2005
tyro \TY-roh\, noun:
A beginner in learning; a novice.
It's difficult to imagine a tyro publishing a book on
medical procedures or economic theory.
--Philip Zaleski, "God Help the Spiritual Writer," [1]New
York Times, January 10, 1999
He was a sensitive, fine soul alert to the pleasures of
being green, a tyro, an amateur, unwilling to close his
mind before it had been tempted.
--Paul West, Sporting With Amaryllis
And, though we were mere tyros, beginners, utterly
insignificant, he was invariably as kind and considerate
and thoughtful, and as lavish in the gift of his time, as
though he had nothing else to do.
--Leonard Warren, Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew
Everything
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Tyro is from Latin tiro, "a young soldier, a recruit," hence
"a beginner, a learner."
A beginner in learning; a novice.
It's difficult to imagine a tyro publishing a book on
medical procedures or economic theory.
--Philip Zaleski, "God Help the Spiritual Writer," [1]New
York Times, January 10, 1999
He was a sensitive, fine soul alert to the pleasures of
being green, a tyro, an amateur, unwilling to close his
mind before it had been tempted.
--Paul West, Sporting With Amaryllis
And, though we were mere tyros, beginners, utterly
insignificant, he was invariably as kind and considerate
and thoughtful, and as lavish in the gift of his time, as
though he had nothing else to do.
--Leonard Warren, Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew
Everything
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Tyro is from Latin tiro, "a young soldier, a recruit," hence
"a beginner, a learner."
Monday, August 22, 2005
Word of the Day for Monday August 22, 2005
vicissitude \vih-SIS-ih-tood; -tyood\, noun:
1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another;
alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
3. A change in condition or fortune; an instance of mutability
in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one
condition to another).
This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune, sunk at
last into [1]abject and hopeless poverty.
--Thomas Macaulay
Max had rescued his father's gold watch through every
vicissitude, but as it didn't go I took it to a watchmaker.
--Edith Anderson, [2]Love in Exile: An American Writer's
Memoir of Life in Divided Berlin
It has come about that this writer, who at the beginning
might have appeared in unique occupation of a marginal and
peripheral world, is instead writing from the center of a
historical vicissitude, utterly contemporary.
--Elizabeth Hardwic, "Meeting [3]V. S. Naipaul"
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Vicissitude comes from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim, in
turn, probably from vices, changes.
Synonyms: alternation, inconstancy, fluctuation. [4]Find more
at Thesaurus.com.
1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another;
alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
3. A change in condition or fortune; an instance of mutability
in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one
condition to another).
This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune, sunk at
last into [1]abject and hopeless poverty.
--Thomas Macaulay
Max had rescued his father's gold watch through every
vicissitude, but as it didn't go I took it to a watchmaker.
--Edith Anderson, [2]Love in Exile: An American Writer's
Memoir of Life in Divided Berlin
It has come about that this writer, who at the beginning
might have appeared in unique occupation of a marginal and
peripheral world, is instead writing from the center of a
historical vicissitude, utterly contemporary.
--Elizabeth Hardwic, "Meeting [3]V. S. Naipaul"
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Vicissitude comes from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim, in
turn, probably from vices, changes.
Synonyms: alternation, inconstancy, fluctuation. [4]Find more
at Thesaurus.com.
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Word of the Day for Sunday August 21, 2005
schadenfreude \SHOD-n-froy-duh\, noun:
A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.
That the report of Sebastian Imhof's grave illness might also have been tinged with Schadenfreude appears not to have crossed Lucas's mind.
--Steven Ozment, Flesh and Spirit
He died three years after me -- cancer too -- and at that time I was still naive enough to imagine that what the afterlife chiefly provided were unrivalled opportunities for unbeatable gloating, unbelievable schadenfreude.
--Will Self, How The Dead Live
Somewhere out there, Pi supposed, some UC Berkeley grad students must be shivering with a little Schadenfreude of their own about what had happened to her.
--Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch
The historian Peter Gay -- who felt Schadenfreude as a Jewish child in Nazi-era Berlin, watching the Germans lose coveted gold medals in the 1936 Olympics -- has said that it "can be one of the great joys of life."
--Edward Rothstein, "Missing the Fun of a Minor Sin," New York Times, February 5, 2000
Schadenfreude comes from the German, from Schaden, "damage" + Freude, "joy." It is often capitalized, as it is in German.
A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.
That the report of Sebastian Imhof's grave illness might also have been tinged with Schadenfreude appears not to have crossed Lucas's mind.
--Steven Ozment, Flesh and Spirit
He died three years after me -- cancer too -- and at that time I was still naive enough to imagine that what the afterlife chiefly provided were unrivalled opportunities for unbeatable gloating, unbelievable schadenfreude.
--Will Self, How The Dead Live
Somewhere out there, Pi supposed, some UC Berkeley grad students must be shivering with a little Schadenfreude of their own about what had happened to her.
--Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch
The historian Peter Gay -- who felt Schadenfreude as a Jewish child in Nazi-era Berlin, watching the Germans lose coveted gold medals in the 1936 Olympics -- has said that it "can be one of the great joys of life."
--Edward Rothstein, "Missing the Fun of a Minor Sin," New York Times, February 5, 2000
Schadenfreude comes from the German, from Schaden, "damage" + Freude, "joy." It is often capitalized, as it is in German.
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