On previous trips the pirates have stolen valuables, killed people, raped and abducted girls...the women work frantically to ugly themselves up by smearing black charcoal paste on their faces and bodies. With ashen faces, some of the younger, prettier girls reach into the bags we have vomited into and scoop out handfuls of it to smear on their hair and clothes.
Loung UngStichwörter: nonfiction
When he was very excited, [John Singer] Sargent would rush at his canvas with his brush poised for attack, yelling, 'Demons, demons, demons!' When he was particularly angry or frustrated, he expressed these feelings with 'Damn,' the only curse he allowed himself. He once had the expletive inscribed on a rubber stamp so he could have the satisfaction of pounding it on a piece of paper.
Deborah DavisStichwörter: nonfiction
We insist no one be compelled to take antipsychotic drugs until he becomes so deranged that he is in 'imminent danger' and a judge has to intervene to save his life. If we really believed that forced treatment was an injustice and forced medication was cruel, then why would we allow a judge to impose it as a last resort to save a life?
Pete EarleyStichwörter: nonfiction goodpoint
Many of the members of the class had never held ice.
Dave EggersStichwörter: nonfiction
...beggars were permitted to enter great houses and solicit directly from the table, but now they are restricted to the doorstep.
Joseph GiesStichwörter: nonfiction
Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.
Ishmael BeahStichwörter: nonfiction pretty
Curiously, anatomical reality in art was apparently a horrifying concept to the same men and women who lined up to see bodies at the morgue.
Deborah DavisStichwörter: nonfiction
There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill.
Pete EarleyStichwörter: nonfiction
But while Sasha told us that in America even the most successful men can have but one wife at once--my father had six--and talked about escalators, indoor plumbing, and the various laws of the land, he did not warn us that I would be told by American teenagers that I should go back to Africa.
Dave EggersStichwörter: nonfiction
For outdoors, he wears a mantle fastened at the shoulder with a clasp or chain; although buttons are sometimes used for decoration, the buttonhole has not been invented.
Joseph GiesStichwörter: nonfiction
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