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  • Woolf was not a romantic, not a celebrant of that getting lost that is erotic love, in which the beloved becomes an invitation to become who you secretly, dormantly, like a locust underground waiting for the seventeen-year call, already are in hiding, that love for the other that is also a desire to reside in your own mystery in the mystery of others.

    A Close Read 2006

  • Woolf was not a romantic, not a celebrant of that getting lost that is erotic love, in which the beloved becomes an invitation to become who you secretly, dormantly, like a locust underground waiting for the seventeen-year call, already are in hiding, that love for the other that is also a desire to reside in your own mystery in the mystery of others.

    A Close Read 2006

  • If they're going to sit there dormantly -- I'm not saying go after everybody who goes $5 over the limit, but some specter of some enforcement is important.

    CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2006 2006

  • Given the devastation which crystal wreaks on thousands and thousands of poeple in the nation's largest cities, and given the prominence which casual meth use enjoys in certain aspects of gay culture bars, circuit parties, sex clubs, the meth crisis among gays has lurked dormantly as a community secret, albeit an open one.

    The Crystal Meth Crisis among Gays Glenn Greenwald 2005

  • Given the devastation which crystal wreaks on thousands and thousands of poeple in the nation's largest cities, and given the prominence which casual meth use enjoys in certain aspects of gay culture bars, circuit parties, sex clubs, the meth crisis among gays has lurked dormantly as a community secret, albeit an open one.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Glenn Greenwald 2005

  • It has however existed for centuries because it only affects men, only kicks in some of the time, and can be dormantly carried by women who pass it on to their female descendants.

    Is abortion a religious question? 2004

  • Nevertheless, when spiritual hunger overtakes you, you will be prompted to recover the resources of the elusive treasure that lie dormantly within you.

    Songs of the Arcturians Patricia L. Pereira 1996

  • Nevertheless, when spiritual hunger overtakes you, you will be prompted to recover the resources of the elusive treasure that lie dormantly within you.

    Songs of the Arcturians Patricia L. Pereira 1996

  • In such a world, largely the ideological product of superstition and hysteria, it is difficult for manhood to exist, even dormantly.

    Guardsman Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1981

  • And the instinct then moved her, which lies in every proper feminine heart, however dormantly, to mother something or somebody.

    Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

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