In many other cultures it's just the reverse: the rich are fat and the poor are emaciated. Anthropologist George Armelagos of Emory University calls it the Henry the Eighth syndrome, referring to the corpulent King of England who lived so well off the labor of his peasantry. “Think about how many people had to work to make the King the size that he was,” says Armelagos. Being rotund is still a sign of prosperity and prestige in Polynesia and parts of Africa.
Over dinner, a taciturn staff gave him a quick primer on how to direct a movie.
detract
Or maybe, as its detractors contend, Therapeutic Touch is a form of New Age mumbo jumbo, a no-touch laying on of hands that has no legitimate place in medicine.
canny
a canny (movie) producer.
contrived
That answer is probably just as good as the so called “correct” answer, which always seemed a bit contrived to me.
exonerate
Here is where NeXT's doleful record cannot be entirely exonerated by the biological metaphor, which is after all a figure of speech, not an explanation.
There are lots of apocryphal stories floating on the internet. For example, i was reading an article on the story of casino in the early days (http://www.quatloos.com/gamble/parhedg.htm); about how they murdered a man who was using some nuclear-physicist kids's stratagem to win away some 10 million dollars. Urban legends are either completely baseless, or distorted true stories.
xahlee.info, 2003
fickle
capricious, volatile, mercurial, whimsical
supercilious
disdainful
resplendent
sublime
rescind
abolish, annihilate, void, annul, repeal, revoke
abrogate
... the university had ignored decades of constitutional law and abrogated its responsibility as a center for free inquiry.
He believed that art must be analyzed for both its overt and covert meaning: Beneath its explicit content there exists a vast reservoir of latent social and psychic information.
