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Psychological symptoms brought on by solitary lockdown during an epidemic.
Sleepless, edgy, self-critical and burned out from the abstractions of her computer and phone, she knew these feelings were psychodemic and hoped they would dissipate once freed from her confinement.
Virtual unreality. Disorientation resulting from too much screen time.
After months of virtual meetings, virtual birthday parties, virtual sex, he felt real life slipping away, drowning in unvirtuality.
Apparently true because the computer says it is.
His online identity was entirely fabricated, yet irrefutably computative.
A sleep state, moving your arms and legs and making sounds, a manifestation of your dreams.
He could see that she was dreaming about running, her legs were going, and she was making little shouting sounds, dog dreaming, the way their poodle visibly dreamed of chasing deer.
The 22-year-old poet who spoke with poise and eloquence at the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, reading her poem "The Hill We Climb". Ms. Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in United States history, earned wide praise and admiration for her contribution to an event regarded, by several measures, as historically significant.
Amanda Gorman joins a small group of poets who have graced a presidential inauguration with their words, among them Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Miller Williams, Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco.
From "The Hill We Climb", she read:
"And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.
Somehow, we do it.
Somehow, weâve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isnât broken, but simply unfinished."
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An inadvertent mis-rendering of the saying "making a mountain out of a molehill" - enlarging an issue beyond its merits or needs - which unintentionally and charmingly accentuates the disparity.
"So what? You lent me your car to go grocery shopping. For whatever, an hour, and I brought it back! It was not three weeks later! Sixteen days is much closer to two weeks. You are so totally making a mountain out of a molehole".
1) Spotted almost as frequently as Bigfoot: a small, brightly-colored visual feature, used by men while texting, in place of actual words.
Bill broke up with Susie using the only hemojis he could think of - a pair of scissors and a trash can.