the support about which a lever turns b : one that supplies capability for action
Found in Carol Sheild's "Segue"
“I can imagine her (or him), an intrepid young person in her early, awkward twenties (Columbia or else Yale), her hair flattened by neglect, her body unbalanced by bad posture and fad diets, perpetually in a state of flinching, just slightly overawed by her male supervisor (or the other way around), but determined (nevertheless) to identify the fulcrum that she knows, by instinct, separated the now-world, which has seen the end of Fortress America, and the notion of giving thanks from the “olden days�?—seperates real terrorism from the old excuse of vengeance, striking back when power is denied.�?
“I can imagine her (or him), an intrepid young person in her early, awkward twenties (Columbia or else Yale), her hair flattened by neglect, her body unbalanced by bad posture and fad diets, perpetually in a state of flinching, just slightly overawed by her male supervisor (or the other way around), but determined (nevertheless) to identify the fulcrum that she knows, by instinct, separated the now-world, which has seen the end of Fortress America, and the notion of giving thanks from the “olden days�?—seperates real terrorism from the old excuse of vengeance, striking back when power is denied.�?
dkjd commented on the list dkjd-s-words
the support about which a lever turns b : one that supplies capability for action
Found in Carol Sheild's "Segue"
“I can imagine her (or him), an intrepid young person in her early, awkward twenties (Columbia or else Yale), her hair flattened by neglect, her body unbalanced by bad posture and fad diets, perpetually in a state of flinching, just slightly overawed by her male supervisor (or the other way around), but determined (nevertheless) to identify the fulcrum that she knows, by instinct, separated the now-world, which has seen the end of Fortress America, and the notion of giving thanks from the “olden days�?—seperates real terrorism from the old excuse of vengeance, striking back when power is denied.�?
December 8, 2006
dkjd commented on the list dkjd-s-words
Overawed--to restrain or subdue by awe
“I can imagine her (or him), an intrepid young person in her early, awkward twenties (Columbia or else Yale), her hair flattened by neglect, her body unbalanced by bad posture and fad diets, perpetually in a state of flinching, just slightly overawed by her male supervisor (or the other way around), but determined (nevertheless) to identify the fulcrum that she knows, by instinct, separated the now-world, which has seen the end of Fortress America, and the notion of giving thanks from the “olden days�?—seperates real terrorism from the old excuse of vengeance, striking back when power is denied.�?
December 8, 2006