... he grew up in Dagenham, on the eastern outskirts of London, a milieu that he has recalled as “gray and grimy.” Patrick Radden Keefe, "How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success," The New Yorker, January 7, 2019
Most crucial, though ... is a deeply informed, deeply immersive essay from Luc Sante, “Beastie Revolution,” that places the then-nascent band amidst the cultural milieu of New York City, and the world at large, in 1981, from the Walkman and Ronald Reagan and Grandmaster Flash getting booed off stage while opening up for the Clash in Times Square to Robert Mapplethorpe and WBLS radio and the Mudd Club and still-cheap rent. Corey Seymour, "The Beastie Boys Book Tour Is as Nutty, Irreverent, and Fun as You think It Would Be," Vogue, October 31, 2018
I don’t know if I can be a snowbird every year... But I’m going to try, even if it’s only for a week or two: for more winter sunrises, for more sunlight, and even for more — why not? — joyful crying. Jen A. Miller, "How I Became a 37-Year-Old Snowbird," New York Times, February 23, 2018
As the temperature drops and months of cold weather loom ahead, snowbirds pack up for warmer climates, anticipating sunny days free of freezing ice, snow shoveling and other winter worries. Mary Kane, "Prep Your House for Snowbird Season," Kiplinger's Retirement Report, January 2018
Today’s baseball rosters are filled with names, not nicknames, not like the ones that used to be. The N.B.A. playoffs are equally devoid of onomastic pleasures, just cheap echoes of Magic and the Mailman, Tiny and Tree, Chief and Cornbread. John Branch, "Like Magic, Great Sports Nicknames Are Disappearing," New York Times, May 10, 2011
... the survey found that mothers’ top reason for onomastic discontent was that they hadn’t been bold enough ... Ruth Graham, "A Lot of Mothers Regret the Names They Gave Their Children, According to a New Survey," Slate, September 1, 2016
From these various investigations it became very clear that numerous components of the cotton plant had some attractancy for the boll weevil, although their effects were often short-ranged. Richard L. Ridgway, May N. Inscoe, and Willard A. Dickerson, "Role of the Boll Weevil Pheromone in Pest Management," Behavior-Modifying Chemicals for Insect Management, 1990
The attractancy of the brown-rot fungus was discovered by Dr. Glenn Esenther, an entomologist at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin. T. Allan Wolter, "Your Wayne National Forest," Sunday Times-Sentinel, July 27, 1975
... she matches people according to chart comparison, a branch of astrology called Synastry. Rick Smith, "Astrologer makes matches in heavens," The Daily Reporter, April 9, 1984
I find this sad because the synastry was really pretty good. Eugenia Last, "The Last Word in Astrology," The Register-Guard, June 7, 1997
You havent heard of privatizing? That's this fantastically with-it idea the Reagan circle has for getting the government out of government. Isn't that too marvy? Russell Baker, "Such a Marvy Idea," New York Times, January 8, 1986
The 22-way adjustable driver seat was marvy. Dan Neil, "Bentley Bentayga: The Ultimate Luxury SUV," Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2016
The amphiscians, whose noon shadows fall on both sides, are the people who live between the two tropics, in the region which the ancients call the middle zone. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), On the Revolutions, translated by Edward Rosen, 1978
Are we not similar to those amphiscians / whose shadows fall at one season to the north, / but at another to the south? Evan S. Connell, Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel, 1962