It was either pick the fill-in-the-blank life or stick with the military's multiple-choice existence.
An instruction manual for aspiring Hasses, these lines suggest that Hass's own story was learned from an instruction manual; of course, it wasn't, but the feeling of having lived a fill-in-the-blanks life is something that many autobiographical poets come to know.
It's difficult to imagine anyone other than Merle Haggard — the archetypal outlaw, often bearded, a little skeptical around the eyes, a little bit somewhere else — including a song called "If We Make It Through December" on a Christmas record, where it could freely rub up against blank, life-affirming hooey like "Jingle Bells" and "Winter Wonderland".
A smart, beautiful woman defeated by her husband's infidelities, Edith has closed in on herself; Jack is all she's got, and she wants more and more sex with him as a way of blanking out on her life.
That in less than seven minutes, the knot of fear and anxiety unspooling at speed will swallow you whole, rendering your life blank and your existence meaningless?
Before he fell, his right eye went blank — flashing life, death, pain, something.
This track, however, was built from Blake's synthy yet occasionally blank-sounding Life Round Here and turned into a complete gem.
He blanked Joseph Jackson from his life and excised him from his face, but could not forget his father's exhortation to be "a winner, not a loser".
Meanwhile, Mr. Silberberg's engrossing documentary "Oh My God! It's Harrod Blank!" explores the life and work of Mr. Blank, a Bay Area artist and filmmaker best known for building art cars (vehicles festooned with different objects) and documenting that scene.
In general, comparable results were obtained, confirming the stability of the reagents over the recommended shelf-life (means were: blank = 3.23, penicillin G at 4 μg kg−1 = 0.03, ampicillin at 6 μg kg−1 = 0.27, and cloxacillin at 12 μg kg−1 = 0.32).
