(1) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(2) Even for those who don't know a "540 cab" from a "360 grab", or what it means to "huck it", the scale of the achievement was clear.
(3) Those who finish Huck Finn still doubting Twain's own racial attitudes should read Following the Equator or Pudd'nhead Wilson , in which Twain excoriates the "one-drop rule" (the American law decreeing that "one drop of negro blood" made a person black): "To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black out-voted the other fifteen parts and made her a 'negro'."
(4) With Huck Finn , he could recall life on America's great river as a permanent thing, a place of menacing sunsets, starlit nights and strange dawns, of the confessions of dying men, hints of buried treasure, murderous family feuds, overheard shoptalk, the crazy braggadocio of travelling showmen, the distant thunder of the civil war, and two American exiles, Huck the orphan and Jim the runaway slave, floating down the immensity of the great Mississippi.
(5) Most American schoolchildren still read Huck Finn , and if they don't, it is because it also remains the most frequently banned book in the US.
(6) Sanders has also hired several other staffers to fill key positions in Iowa, including Justin Huck to serve as the campaign’s state field director and Tara Thobe to oversee logistics.
(7) There is the unbeaten Russian Alexander Povetkin, who defends what the WBA call their "world" title, against Marco Huck in Stuttgart on Saturday; and then a conveyor belt of unknowns or former contenders.
(8) It is largely thanks to Huck Finn 's continued popularity, and controversy, that Twain has defied his own supposed definition of a classic as "a book which people praise and don't read".
(9) Asked about his all-or-nothing approach to the final, he said: "I just thought, huck it."
(10) Huck Finn is itself an ambivalent story about two of America's foundational preoccupations, individualism and race.
(11) But most representatively American of all, perhaps, is the way Huck's struggle between selfish individualism and collective responsibility defines the book's action.
(12) It has started a number of hitherto spotless people to reading Huck Finn [.
(13) We compared A, a prototype of the electrode by Huck, Lübbers and Huch (25 micrometer Telfon membrane) ; B, the commercial version of A by Hellige--Draeger (25 micrometer Telfon); C, the Radiometer TCM I oxygen monitor (25 micrometer polypropylene); and D, the Roche macrocathode electrode (6 micrometer Mylar), at 44 degree C. In vitro the 50% response times were 2.9 (A), 4.4 (B), 3.7 (C), and 7.4 (D) sec.
(14) It's a film that wears its influences on its sleeve: this "big ol' story", as Nichols calls it, is Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn rewritten for modern times.
(15) Analyses with two separate Hotelling's T2 for correlated samples (Huck, Cormier, & Bounds, 1974) revealed significant differences in hand size and strength as well as praxis, and subsequent post hoc analyses revealed better scores for the higher socioeconomic status group on right hand strength and on the Praxis on Verbal Command subtest of the SIPT.
(16) Huck Finn registers America's eternal ambivalence about individualism, simultaneously glorifying and condemning the doctrine that has so shaped the nation's history and continues to define it.
(17) He admits that Tom Sawyer was largely a young Sam Clemens, while Huck Finn was based on a real boy: "In Huckleberry Finn I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was.
(18) Twain's appreciative ear for American vernacular is another reason for Huck Finn 's abiding popularity; its vulgar, demotic language is why Hemingway celebrated it (and why Louisa May Alcott, for one, was among the first generation of readers to argue for banning it).
(19) Huck Finn itself is travel writing, in which the raft-trip down the Mississippi provides the picaresque structure for an episodic tale, an Edenic journey away from civilisation, as well as an occasionally frightening glimpse of the (all-too-human) wilderness.
(20) Villanova's second title is even more unfathomable than 1985's giant-killers Read more The skills in college are lousy, the best players seem to treat the games as pro tryouts, and the coaches are more duplicitous than ever – hard to accomplish in a profession likened to hucking used cars.
Hulk
Definition:
(n.) The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.
(n.) A heavy ship of clumsy build.
(n.) Anything bulky or unwieldly.
(v. t.) To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hulk Hogan’s status as a public figure, even one who holds forth often and at length about his sex life, may have kept him from getting the kind of sympathy that the subject of the escort story immediately received, but there’s no evidence Bollea intended for anyone to see the tape.
(2) But we shouldn’t forget that Gawker was not just getting sued over the Hulk Hogan sex tape case.
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(4) It takes the pragmatism to abort a character that isn't working: Mark Ruffalo was the third attempt at getting The Hulk right.
(5) Instead the commotion was caused by the hulking figure in the front row who, after Haye had taken the plaudits for his fifth-round stoppage of Chisora, and his beaten opponent had accepted he had been floored by the better man, walked over to the top table and challenged the victor to a fight of their own.
(6) Marvel boss Kevin Feige said in 2012 that the comic books Planet Hulk and World War Hulk were both possible sources for new solo Hulk storylines, but admitted that each was problematic.
(7) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
(8) We weren’t trying to satisfy the demands of that day.” It has hosted Britain’s first multiplex cinema, first peace pagoda and almost certainly its first public infinity pool Rather than create a centre from buildings like other new towns such as Cumbernauld with its hulking concrete shopping precinct, CMK was designed as a centre of broad boulevards edged in expensive Cornish granite and lined with London plane trees.
(9) Or, indeed, the storm of locusts that would have been sent Howard Webb’s way bearing in mind the disallowed Hulk goal and his waving away of a first-half penalty.
(10) A minute earlier Hulk was racing through 30 yards out and attempted to toe poke it high up and over Casillas who was haring out to sweep up but couldn't direct it so it ended up going more vertically than horizontally.
(11) Lyon began to dominate but Hulk scored a stunning goal in the 56th minute to put the hosts back in front.
(12) The likes of Alex Teixeira, Jackson Martínez and Ramires have already moved to Super League clubs, while the Zenit St Petersburg striker Hulk is also reportedly on the verge of a big-money deal to join Shanghai SIPG – a club managed by another former England manager, Sven-Goran Eriksson.
(13) These hulking monuments to American consumer culture make up the subject of Lawless' book Black Friday .
(14) Germany clear, the ball comes back to David Luiz and he surges forward before threading the ball up the inside left towards Hulk again.
(15) The overall impression is of an unplanned free-for-all, a steroidal frenzy of building tall, with little attention to individual design quality, or the cumulative effect that these scattered hulks might have on the city.
(16) And after a quick chat, Webb disallows the goal and books Hulk for handball.
(17) Regardless of the legality of what Gawker did when deciding to post a tape of Hulk Hogan sleeping with his former best friend’s then-wife, it’s really tough to stand up for the first amendment when the hill you’re going to die on is made of questionable newsworthiness and dick jokes.
(18) The latter tactic can work (Ubisoft, Rockstar), but it can also mean that games lose any sort of identity as great hulking middle management layers take a deathly grip on creative decisions.
(19) Ten minutes into the second half, Marcelo lifted a long, diagonal pass over the Chile defence and Hulk controlled the ball at the corner of his chest and shoulder, then bundled it into the goal.
(20) She understands that news media have certain leeway in a presidential campaign, but outright lying about her in this way exceeds all bounds of appropriate news reporting and human decency.” Harder’s not-quite-four-year-old Beverly Hills firm, Harder Mirell & Abrams LLP, is perhaps best known for representing Hulk Hogan in the lawsuit that eventually bankrupted Gawker Media , which was sold at auction to media company Univision earlier in August.