All week I watched them pushing away, their pruned heads swollen together into something like anger, making a brief comeback toward the end, as if secretly embalmed.
The tests were a disaster: Participants' organs failed, their heads swelled, and the worst-hit lost his fingers and toes.
The tests were a disaster; participants' organs failed, their heads swelled grotesquely and the worst-hit lost his fingers and toes.
"Don't let your head swell," Mr. de Blasio said.
It was the revelation that a man can wear the loftiest of miters without having his head swell to fit it, and can hold an office to which the term "infallible" is often attached without forgetting his failings.
It strikes me that only someone who herself was overflowing with life and humor would say about herself: "I'm not an artist, you know, I just paint by heart," and about her own more abstract work, commissioned in the 1960s: "Those things make my head swell".
After making my head swell up so that it looked like I had gone three rounds with Mike Tyson, and covering my face in pus-filled blisters, it then found its way in to the cornea of my right eye, leaving me temporarily (I hope) blinded in that eye.
If that's true, the antics of one Hong Kong resident should be making North Korea's babyfaced Supreme Leader's head swell even wider than its default bulbous size.
I'm serious, though, his head swelled up to twice the size of a normal head.
I stood up quickly, and my head swelled with blood, like a thunderball.
