Here’s the description: The Superstitious Man is the kind who washes his hands in three springs, sprinkles himself with water from a temple font, puts a laurel sprig in his mouth, and then is ready for the day’s perambulations.
Popular Science Staff,
Popular Science,
6 Nov. 2024
This time, a man wearing a gaiter that covered his nose and mouth was accompanied by three other individuals who appeared intimidating to Raimi.
In the last few years, dozens of these funds have raised gobs of cash and signed massive checks for loans to companies with hundreds of millions in cash flow.
Michael Flaherty,
Axios,
4 Nov. 2024
Realize that generative AI is based on having scanned the Internet for gobs of content that reveals the nature of human writing.
The majestic bird made Central Park an impromptu restaurant recently, settling in a grassy area to dine on its latest catch, which happened to be the rat stuffed in its gullet.
Amaris Encinas,
USA TODAY,
5 Sep. 2024
Eventually, a freaky, spider-like facehugger will hatch from an egg and, true to its name, latch onto a host’s face and force an embryo down their unwilling gullets.
Most directors, by peering into a gas chamber or the maw of an oven, mean to remind us, as the actor-director Roberto Benigni once obscenely put it, that Life Is Beautiful.
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
1 Nov. 2024
The scientists debut as heroes, saving Carol and Ash from their certain death at the maws of the marsh walkers.
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