(I totally was, though!) It's mostly offensive to me as a girl, but it's also offensive to me as a girl who loves men outside of their supposed mono-function as a dick-'n'-cash repository, and has had every single kind of guy friend, and knows everything about everything anyway, right?
She points out that one of the people Amina encounters in Rochester, a cousin of George's named Kim, functions as a repository for this fear.
But while Mr. Richter's archive functions as a repository of repressed family and national history (it includes horrifying images of concentration camp victims), Mr. De Cock's archive is impersonal and overwhelmingly tasteful.
The old page functioned as a repository of submitted designs, but it was largely a faceless entity; we hope to make this new version of it a bit more lively.
The term 'home' functions as a repository for complex, interrelated, and at times, contradictory sociocultural ideas about dwelling, living/being, experiencing the world (belonging), and interacting with other people (family), places, spaces, and objects.
It also functions as a repository for that content.
Funded by several scholarly institutions and agencies, it functions as a repository of social-historical data on the city's 10,000 households, and as online platform linking distinct digital projects to advance cross-disciplinary and collaborative research by a range of international partners.
Hägglund's logic helps explain why this [End Page 17] museum, which merely assembles random things whose associated forms of life have become obsolete iPhones, Nintendo consoles, stiletto heels, a snow globe (255, 258)—functions as a repository of beauty: "Clark had always been fond of beautiful objects, and in his present state of mind, all objects were beautiful" (255).
This physical separation of different chromosomes is important for the ability of DNA to function as a stable repository for information, as one of the few times chromosomes interact is during chromosomal crossover when they recombine.
