svelte
Beattie at 22, svelte and winsome.
description of a photo of a girl
svelte = gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, sylphlike]
emasculating
The mature American male is an idiot unable to cope with the emasculating competitive careerism of women (itself a laughable charade); he can save himself only by a wilful reversion to adolescence. But in the reversion, he must die. (Hmmm. Why exactly?)
“The Subtle Stink That Mars ‘American Beauty’” (2000-03-24) By Lance Morrow.
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American Beauty↗.
emasculate = To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
ascetic
“So I was wondering why call/cc is not implemented.”.
Because the Common Lisp crowd doesn't want you to implement manually all the control flow mechanisms that CALL/CC is used to implement, and that is because there is no desire to pare the language down to “essentials” or Scheme's ascetic/annorexic notions of “elegance”.
“continuations and cl” (2000-02-14) by Erik Naggum. Newsgroup posting on comp.lang.lisp.
annorexia = Loss of appetite for food.
annorexia↗.
ascetic = A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline.
annorexia
presage
If any feminist cultural critics want to wring their hands over Oxygen's media offerings, they should be doing so not because it's so banal, but because it presages a spectacular failure for a high-profile female's business venture.
presage = Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.