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The belief that a person's arc is determined by the nature of their character.
She had always taken comfort in the idea that character is destiny, that good people would prevail, that the bad would receive their just punishment. Now, with the possibility of a second term, and the further catastrophe it would unleash, she was not so sure.
Making the same mistake over and over.
He tried not to do the same stupid thing more that two hundred times, but it seemed to happen anyway, and he was growing tired of breathing recirculated err.
A wistful notion from the recent-yet-distant time when people saw each other.
Glancing into her closet, filled with lovingly-chosen clothing she no longer wore, slipping on her plastic coat, her mask and rubber gloves to go 'shopping', she recalled what her mother had taught her when she was young, that appearances matter, and wondered when it would be true again.
Oil prices fall below zero, Texas, the nation's leading crude oil producer, looks in the mirror and sees Venezuela.
Once unimaginable, today US oil prices plunged to minus $40 a barrel, and Texazuela may face economic collapse.
A negative.
She was thrown into a state of despair, learning that she had tested positive.
A prefix which should, but does not, negate the word to which it is attached. While 'mobility' and 'immobility' are opposites, as are 'effective' and 'ineffective', the words 'passivity' and 'impassivity' mean the same thing, as do the words 'flammable' and 'inflammable'.
Tired of being described as passive, he decided to be more impassive. He'd be a man of action, or maybe even inaction. What difference could a negated negation make?
A bright yellow, spiky-roofed museum on the Mall in Washington, celebrating the Lisa Simpson Presidency. As pre-cognitively laid out in the March 19, 2000 episode, 'Bart to the Future', Lisa has been elected and has moved into the Oval Office to clean up the mess left by President Trump.
On her lunch break, Jane would wander over to the Simpsonian Institution, dreaming of a country under President Lisa, with clean air and water, kindness to all people and animals, the return of ethics and honesty to government, and Mr. Burns in prison.
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