Unit 2: Vocabulary from Readings 2

This frigid and ominous sea is behaving like an enormous vampire slowly sucking the warmth, the life from my body, and I think, Oh my God, pick up your pace.

When they spoke to David, he said he was doing okay, and the decrease in his body temperature was so gradual, they didn’t notice his deteriorating condition.

With every part of my being I am reaching forward, racing against time and the pervasively cold sea.

“I still don’t like the looks of those clouds,” he said pensively.

I was immersed in unbridled energy and supernatural beauty, and I wanted to see what would happen next.

And after he was born, to alleviate her depression, she played recordings of the works of her other favorite classical composers—Chopin and Beethoven, chiefly—over and over.

It can also be characteristic of genius, of course, but at this time no one suspected that Hikari’s preoccupation would ultimately lead him to transcend the usual limits of his condition.

Hikari’s physical handicaps precluded his developing much skill as a pianist. It was hard for him to see the notes and to see and control his fingers on the keys.

She reprimanded him for not trying hard enough; after all, he had been able to learn everything up to that time, however slowly and laboriously.

“I was especially eager for him to learn to transcribe music,” Yukari remembers. “I had read about how Mozart would write down music as his father played it, and it seemed like the kind of thing Hikari would enjoy a lot.”

Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life?

Over the course of time since man’s advent, a small percentage of the more than half a million species of insects have come into conflict with human welfare in two principal ways: as competitors for the food supply and as carriers of human disease.

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.