noun: A college athlete who practices with the team, but does not take part in official games. verb tr., intr.: 1. To extend eligibility by a year by making an athlete practice, but not participate, in official games. 2. To delay enrolling a child by a year to avoid their being one of the youngest … Lire la suite
immensity
Definition: (noun) Unusual largeness in size or extent or number. Synonyms: vastness, enormousness, grandness, greatness, wideness. Usage: This projectile was but an atom in the immensity of the ocean. Discuss
Frase celebre di Jean Cocteau
«La verità è troppo nuda, per questo non eccita gli uomini.» (Jean Cocteau)
high-spirited
Definition: (adjective) Joyously unrestrained. Synonyms: ebullient, exuberant. Usage: These beer busts were a diversion of these high-spirited young fellows whereby they whiled away the tedium of existence by making fools of their betters. Discuss
Mickey Mouse
« Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. »
Ellis Peters
« Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. »
Kinder sind besonders deswegen liebenswert, weil sie immer in der Gegenwart leben.
Leo Tolstoi(1828 – 1910), Lew Nikolajewitsch Graf Tolstoi, russischer Erzähler und Romanautor