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undemonstrative in a burly fat-pig style
locomotive, Special trucks
Defunct, adj.
You brought home a typewriter for me.
SuperMemo is based <>ong>onong> the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too so<>ong>onong> and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
Once in a while an entire sub-sub-category that had long been thought safely dormant would take wing with an indescribable papery susurrus.
Maybe when he takes off his Clark Kent glasses and rips open the shirt, he's 'Super-Disappointment.' Slower than a speeding bullet, nowhere near as powerful as a locomotive, able to deliver a less than satisfying sexual experience in a single thrust.
I am not Superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I'm juggling a lot of balls in the air trying to be a good wife and mother, trying to be the prime-ministerial consort at home and abroad, barrister and charity worker, and sometimes one of the balls gets dropped.
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable
but I always was so, only I never knew it!
Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.
The precious ordinary. I
Idle and superfluous all day long, all at once they had become visible, needed, and
Super. Sally Security was back.
It's not enough to identify the Superobjective intellectually; you have to justify it, to find the emotional drive behind it. You need your own specific interpretation of the superobjective so that every time you think of it, it makes you emotional and drives you into action.
My determinate voyage is mere extravagancy
I feel racing and suspension all at once.
Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.
If something isn't special, then it's ordinary.
I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
Down the steep track into the village a car was coming. A car so fantastically powerful, so superlatively beautiful that it had all the nature of an apparition.
I am just an ordinary man, who refuses to stay ordinary.
In the middle of all the ordinary--something extraordinary shows up.
Mouseburger: unpretty, unspecial, unformed.
You're a special kind of stupid
Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over.
I am pretty unextraordinary.
The extraordinary's the norm.
He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
discombobulation
The kind of tired that sleep doesn't fix. Just tired of ... being.
If you want to be regarded as a superwoman, you have to standout like one!
I'm just an ordinary person.
I think I think I am Superwoman sometimes but I am not.
Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sportscar in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President.
She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended ...
It is not special to be special, it's special to be ordinary
I jerked my phone out of my pocket and took a sharp left to follow the bold green line. I didn't fail to notice my walking icon had been replaced with a bicycle. Stupid Google. Doesn't have a "Succubus on Steroids" setting.
J.M. Friedman. Succubus in Seattle (Kindle Locations 1198-1199).
this word needs to be reworded ==========
Still when I'm a mess
I still put on a vest
With an 'S' on my chest
Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman
I'm a super hero, too, underneath my sweater.
I'm a succubus."
He shook his head. "No, you aren't."
"Yes, I am."
"You aren't."
I was a bit surprised to be having this conversation. "I am too."
"No. Succubi are flame-eyed and bat-winged. Everyone knows that. They don't wear jeans and sweaters.
Faultless to a fault.
When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.'
I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
Under the stars,I tried to sleep,but for once in my life couldn't.My mutant super power-the ability to nod off at at the drop of a hat,any time,anywhere-had deserted me.
One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the '20s and '30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them.
Women who once aspired to the image of superwoman now worry about becoming superdrudge. Those who wanted to have it all now ask whether they have to do it all.
The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'
If you think a quaterhorse is that ride in front of Kmart.. You might be a rednneck
But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like nothing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom.
Our cheeky sidekick. We're like a motorcycle and sidecar.
This is so ... " I can't find the word.
"Wonderful? Amazing?" the Ender nurse offers.
"Bizarre," I say as I watch the lips of the Starter move in the mirror.
Eliminate the superfluous.
Pure-limbed, white-canopied, one-wheeled, the cart roles on. See him that cometh: faultless, stream-cutter, bondless he.
I dropped a word from the string of negative adjectives that had trailed behind me like tin cans behind the village idiot. Unappreciated, unloved, unmarried. But no longer unpublished.
A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.
declared Mr Marrable magniloquently;
In response to the extraordinary
I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
I am an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things. The first to qualify as a ground engineer. The first to fly to Australia single-handed. A million people lined the streets of London when I came home. I waved to them from an open-topped car like the queen, the queen of the air.
Sesquihoral (adj.) Lasting an hour and a half. Because sometimes you just don't feel like saying "an hour and a half." Short-thinker
I'm a superkid yes. But even Superman had his flu days.
ambushed by sleep.
One may come armoured, Invinsible. His will immobile meets the mobile hour. The world blows cannot bend this Victor Head. Calm and sure are his steps in the growing night. The goal recedes, he hurries not his pace. He asks from no help from the inferior Gods. His eyes are fixed on the immutable aim.
I can't be no superman but for you I'll be a superhuman
Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.
ANIENTED (A'NIENTED) adj.[anneantir, Fr.]Frustrated; brought to nothing.
The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.
This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.
I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.
My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.
predictably unpredictable
A vessel swift of flight, though say'st? Hast thou
Not heard of the Millenn'um Falcon, Sir?
'Tis but the ship that hath the Kessel run
Accomplish'd in twelve parsecs,
A supervillain must continue to exist.
A real hansom-cab took him from the station to Trinity College: the vehicle, it seemed, had been waiting there especially for him, desperately holding out against extinction till that moment, and then gladly dying out to join side whiskers and the Large Copper.
To be extraordinary is to accept and embrace repeated failings, recover as quickly as possible; that is let go of all your reasons and excuses to justify the failing; then move on to carry out your
I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.
Squamous. He did not need to look it up. He knew. They
Son, you walked into the den of a master. If you aren't able to extol the virtues of your mattress, Mara will guide you to one that you are. So, while you're here, you need to let Mara show you our Spring Deluxe
Dearest Virgin - um, Oversexed Lassiter
Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
Strenuous occasions where (jumpy, un-opiated, wracked to the last synapse),
I'm just surprised your parents let you go online, Call said. It was such a regular, non-fancy way to waste time. When he imagined her outside the Magisterium, having fun, he imagined her riding a polo pony, although he wasn't exactly sure what that was or how it was different from a regular pony.
Idle, profligate, ingrate. No one decent could ever want him.
Dead. It sounds final but it's a word missing an ing.
In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself. Whatever the vacillations of other people, I thought myself terrifically constant. But now, here I am, dragging a frayed line, and my anchor gone.
You look spectacluar, Cam.' She smoothes out his shirt and straightens his tie. 'You look like the shining star you are!'
'Let's hope I don't give birth to complex elements.'
She looks at him quizzically.
'Supernova,' he says. 'If I'm a shining star, let's hope I don't blow up.
I've been wearing Supergas forever. I'm always in flats, running around, so it makes sense for me.
I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent.
I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.
Forget trying to be Supermom - it's way too stressful and who needs more stress? Besides super heroes tend to wear a lot of clingy Lycra and none of us needs that.
Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.
We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is.
The universal subjugator, the commonplace.
Exceptional is too understated for you. I'll have to search for a better word. (Carlos)
I'm not a superhero - I'm a super worker!
I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
You can be special without being extraordinary.