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A thought which often escapes idiots staring at a stranger struggling to walk. "What happened to you?" they say, before launching into the saga of their torn knee ligament, oblivious to the possibility that their prey has been disabled for decades and doesn't wish to answer appallingly inappropriate questions, nor needs your brilliant advice.
Don't ask, she thought. Don't fucking ask.
Some day of the week or other, during Covid, when time is disordered.
The Zoom meeting is... Whensday? Or what.
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A strangely-nonexistent German word meaning "Taking pleasure in another person's success", the theoretical opposite of 'schadenfreude' - a word which has long existed in German and has migrated into English, meaning "Taking pleasure in another person's misery and suffering ".
Hearing that his colleague had won the Nobel, Schmidt was overcome with erfolgfreude and immediately called to offer his profound and heartfelt admiration.
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An editorial writer engaged in calumny - peddling false and malicious statements about someone, with the intent to inflict damage.
Under a tight deadline, needing a really juicy bit of character assassination, the op-ed calumnist linked Biden to Pizzagate.
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A relatively recent specialty within the field of veterinary medicine, devoted exclusively to treating the eyes of non-human animals.
His dog, at the age of ten, had become completely blind. Whereas her blindness would once have been permanent, it could now be reversed. Dr. Jane Cho, a surgeon practicing in Westchester County, New York, had performed a miracle, in his view, had given back the world to his dog by restoring her vision. With each additional year of newly-sighted life, he felt enhanced gratitude toward the doctor and her staff, thankful for the gift of veterinary ophthalmology.
A sweeping, fast moving state of anxiety that arrives without warning and takes everything in its path with it.
He had made an offhand remark, a minor joke, but to her it incited an anxiety tornado, swirling, uprooting, splintering and lifting her self-worth and sense of security with it until she felt herself to be an emotionally wrecked trailer park.
A sweeping, fast moving state of anxiety that arrives without warning and takes everything in its path with it.
He had made an offhand remark, a minor joke, but to her it incited an anxiety-tornado, swirling, uprooting, splintering and lifting her sense of security with it until she felt herself to be an emotionally wrecked trailer park. And like a tornado, it passed and calm was once again restored.
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