We have this saying in French that says, which means nature-- I don't know how to translate-- hates when it's emptiness. Nature abhors a vacuum. Probably. That one? Probably.
The answer being somewhere in the middle. He abhorred public debt, because he believed that that was the way to create-- does this sound familiar to anyone-- create a financial class of people who would speculate without creating anything, and devise financial instruments and a culture of what was called stock
right he is he is loving breathing icon of my hypothesis in with values you abhor on the liability side experiences or any life experiences
actually, I think we should do this or we should do that and just guessing what to do. regarded as abhorrent. And then there's the actual participation of humans in clinical trials, which confers risk on them,
And I think that term "Frankenstein" is apt. Because it captures this abhorrence, or this fear, of anything which violates the states of nature. And now that I think about it, actually, if you think about Frankenstein and many other monsters, very often, their repugnance, or our revulsion at them,
Whereas humans might see crime as an option or something to consider, that's not the Kryptonian way. It would be abhorrent to think that way. And I think that he personifies the best of that nature and is trying to put it out there as a way of saying,
Of course, after they leave the acorn, that leaves a hole, a true vacuum. And you know that nature abhors a vacuum. And, in this case, she has filled it with three species of tiny little temnothorax ants, where the entire colony lives in the holes made by acorn weevils
She's also the daughter of the current Abhorsen. Clariel is the granddaughter of the current Abhorsen. But they are estranged from the Abhorsen family for reasons that become clear in the story.
Clariel is the granddaughter of the current Abhorsen. But they are estranged from the Abhorsen family for reasons that become clear in the story. So Clariel has a lot arrayed against her.
Clariel agrees to help them, not really fully understanding what she's doing. They think that because she's the Abhorsen's granddaughter, and the Abhorsens are very deeply connected with the Charter of Free Magic, that she can be used like a tethered goat to draw the Free Magic creature out, which is, of course, a much, much more dangerous thing than she really knows.
And keeping going potentially opens new doors. Whereas the Disreputable Dog in Lirael Abhorsen, her dog-like characteristics are very specifically based upon one particular dog, my parents' dog
was levied against your favorite rock star and the fact that the CEO of the company that makes the cell phone that you use voted for a presidential candidate that you abhor . We now know everything about every celebrity, certainly, but also about a lot of non-celebrities, just people who are around who, in some way, we come into contact with,
The other side says that he's kind of quirky, like he's an odd character. I mean, he abhors jewelry. He gets a fever if he looks at a peach.
Her mother is a cousin of the King, as well as being high on the goldsmiths' guild. She's also the daughter of the current Abhorsen. Clariel is the granddaughter of the current Abhorsen.
As Benjamin Franklin said, "and concluded for those who didn't abandon the proceedings altogether, with as much pre-meditation and forethought as a game of musical chairs. The last, least abhorrent, mutually somewhat acceptable idea on the table when the music stopped, or the heat became too unbearable, or the liqueur too strong, or the rioting too loud, or the pressure too intense, or the company too loathsome, or the wigs too uncomfortable, or the patience too thin, became the law of the land" as much the product of
There hasn't been any trouble for such a long time that everyone's got used to being peaceful. And as a consequence of this, the Abhorsens, the family whose job it is to keep the dead down, to deal with the Free Magic and so on, have become much less important.
Yeah. I really, to me, sleep is like the most precious commodity. own government, I think is abhorrent and deserves coverage. Certainly there's some times there's stories that I may not be personally all that interested in, or that I think are all that
So that's about a process, which sociologists like me study, of reducing stigma. So the point is if we went from a society that views same-sex marriage as abhorrent and now it's widely accepted, by understanding how groups and behaviors have become destigmatized, it's possible to progressively move toward a society that provides recognition to a wide larger number of peoples.
Well, don't we need context around them? Don't we need to know that they were defending something that we now consider to be completely abhorrent? It wasn't just, oh, the North won and the South lost.
The other face of globalized Kolkata-- a grim truth mired in poverty, helplessness, and abhorrent living conditions. Lives filled with misery without any hope for salvation.
And keeping going potentially opens new doors. Very good. A lot of time has gone by since "Abhorsen" came out.
And keeping going potentially opens new doors. This opposite. And that book picks up from the end of Abhorsen and from the Creature in the Case.
And it comes out, and people who see it are abhorred.
Greg Sanders: Right. Jennifer Egan: And that was exactly the thing that he abhorred and thought was, in a way, unmusical and inhuman. And so, that idea stayed with me and I think I gave that
and particularly, if you look at the economically and politically powerful countries of the world, those of the West, mainly composed of countries that abhor mass slaughter and
Same thing with Joey Soloway, who created "Transparent." And they are a gay person. And their goal was really, as they explained it to me, to make gay people and trans people less abhorrent, more understandable to the general viewer.
Two of my favorite trilogies-- like, fantasy trilogies of all time-- are "His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman, and the Abhorsen trilogy,
And in the end, the winner among burnt hair, which was kind of a stand in for burning body, which was thought that would be universally abhorred.
restaurant's most off night and after three more visits you can realize, "Wow, I love this restaurant," and that was a truly, truly abhorrent experience that needs, that needs