(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.
Hunk
Definition:
(n.) A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an event prompted by the rule that what goes up must come down, the defunct satellite will plummet through the atmosphere, burn and break apart, and scatter hunks of steel, aluminium and titanium over a distance of hundreds of miles.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest José Mourinho: Manchester United ‘the perfect club’ for Paul Pogba – video Pogba, in fairness, is more than just a glamour signing who shows that United, and the Premier League, are wrestling some pulling power back from European rivals, notably Spain’s swoonsome hunks.
(3) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.
(4) Thick hunks of Heft Co sourdough are served with jam from cult LA restaurant Sqirl .
(5) Photograph: Allstar One, two, swashbuckle my shoe: history's bow tie spins in horror as 15th-century polymath is recast as wisecrackin' action hunk.
(6) ululates one of the series' many perturbed adolescent hunks.
(7) We go back again and again for another greasy burger or indeterminate hunk of fish, knowing full well how bad it is for us.
(8) Troubled by his sexuality, Philip took hunks of time out from Harvard and started travelling to Europe as a means of escape.
(9) And so a hunk of Cheddar becomes superior to Nevermind : a universal medium of communication; or at least, for foodists, a universal solvent of the intellect.
(10) I think that 'hunk' of Aberdeen Angus is going to be in quite a foul mood now that his prediction of a Russia v Germany final is wheezing and coughing up bloody phlegm," suggests Richard Whittall.
(11) Photograph: AP If Han’s not still flying the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, I want my money back already.
(12) 5) The Rock may be a great big burning hunk of MAN, but he's not Oscar Wilde Or rather, whoever wrote his lame-o opening speech wasn't.
(13) This hunk of steel and paint is worth much more than the price tag.” The cyclist, who also buys and sells bikes as a hobby, first started returning snatched bikes to their owners in spring 2015 when he stumbled on a stolen bicycle on Craigslist.
(14) The result was a hunk of plastic with the circumference of a beer mat, heated to 130C, to which the labels were attached, while 50 tonnes of hydraulic pressure squashed and spread it into a disc.
(15) By the time we noticed our peeling skin, another hunk of our privacy is long gone."
(16) Only molgG2a antibodies were equally potent with rtNK and huNK.
(17) And sometimes you just want cows falling apart and bewildered hunks in utility slacks shouting about how we'd best stick together otherwise "We'll all be going… TO HELL!"
(18) I suspect the paintings Haslam is thinking of are really 17th-century Dutch still-life pictures with their hearty north European hunks of high- fat cheese, frothing ale glasses and bulging pies.
(19) Little seems to have changed at Simpson's in the Strand since the days when Alfred Hitchcock dined here: the wood panelling, the chandeliers, the white-robed chefs carving hunks of meat on silver trolleys.
(20) There are swirls of purees and jus but at its centre is a hunk of animal; one of the most bloody and intensely earthy of animals.