Word of the week 5

Declamatory
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

Sentence: "This fixed idea of the rhapsodist was delivered with animated enthusiasm, in a manner
entirely declamatory, for he had plainly had no skill as a dialectician"

Definition: Merely oratorical or rhetorical; stilted.

My sentence: The Instructor motivated and inspired her students but in a declamatory manner.

Word of the Week 4

Incessantly

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

How it was used: "The wind was so drying that the ivy-leaves had become wizened and gray, each tapping incessantly upon it's neighbour with a disquieting stir of her nerves."

Definition: Continuing without interruption; ceaseless; unending.

My Sentence: Her grandmother's nagging was incessantly ringing in her ears.

Word of the week 3

Whimsical
adjective

Definition: Erratic; unpredictable.

My Sentence: She was young and too whimsical which is why she was living the fast life.

Word of the Week 2

Ambivalence
noun
Definition: Uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.

My sentence: Her ambivalence complicated their relationship by causing numerous arguments.

word of week 1

Transcendental
adjective

Definition: Being beyond ordinary or common experience, thought, or belief; supernatural.

My sentence: The characters from NBC's, "Heroes" go through transcendental experiences which is what keeps viewers' interested in the show.

Hanging out at Starbucks

As I sat down the first person who grabbed my attention was a woman on her cell phone, who was sitting to the right of me. The sound of her laughter and the expression of her giddiness were quite distracting, not in a pleasant way but more of an annoying way as she boasted about her Valentine’s Card in a sappy tone of voice, “I really like’m. I’ll hold on to it forever, it’s really nice.” I wanted to laugh but I held it in trying not to be rude.
Her dirty blonde hair was scrunched up in a messy bun as if she hasn’t combed it for days or maybe even weeks. When she got off the phone she took out her hair clip and waved her head around as if she was in a shampoo commercial, but only her hair didn’t move in any voluptuous way because it was frizzy, and it had too many tangles in it.
She looked like she was having a hard time as she was struggling to run her fingers through her course thick hair.
Who ever sent her that Valentine’s card should have gave the poor girl a comb and better lines.

Super Bowl Ads

Is the Super Bowl loosing some of the popular sponsors? And are advertisers becoming more ordinary? Every year when I watch the Super Bowl the first thing that I look forward to are the phenomenal commercials, but this year’s ads weren’t as memorable as the previous. Not only didn’t I see too many Bud light commercials but they were also not as funny and unique as the past Super Bowl ads were. In the previous years Bud Light or Budweiser commercials were always known for their different humorous story lines that focused on getting one main idea out which was “Always worth it.” This year I have only seen two commercial and only one was pretty good but it didn’t get me to laugh as hard as many of the previous years have. I will never forget the frog commercials that have made them famous. The talking frogs were their trademarks, “BUD…WEIS…ER.”

Another commercial I was hoping to see was one of coke’s infamous ads. Coke was always known for their animated characters along with their crafty slogans like, “The Coke Side of Life.” I also don’t remember seeing any hilarious Doritos ads or Taco Bell ads.

This year there were more auto commercials that were ordinary and not entertaining just like the rest of their usual ads. There were very few Bud Light commercials that didn’t really thrill me. When it comes to ads it seems to me Super Bowl has lost there unique touch which was what had made them memorable for.