When I extinguish my flame, you prefer me -- why? Fuck you and fuck misogyny, and fuck all the things that you too are a victim of, because today I won't hold your hand and try to love on your fragile masculinity.
The point at which I extinguish my own second order ability to do the first-order action, or some other biological event, another person, or an environmental factor destroys it, I then become ill or unhealthy.
Throughout my early 20s, I regularly extinguished alarms so that I could sleep through my first day at that temp job I needed, but didn't want.
As soon as I entered the cobble-stoned courtyard, twinkling with fairy lights, I felt ashamed of myself and put aside my phone much as I had extinguished my last cigarette at Seville airport, lovingly and with a certain regret.
"I hate to say it," she wrote, "but my year as a Turner juror has seriously dampened, though I hope not extinguished, my enthusiasm for contemporary art".
The piles that were properly extinguished (i.e. using a high-pressure, homogeneously distributed water flow of 50 l/min for 4 min) had a uniform temperature profile and did not have significant hot spots.
It felt like the gene - to make goo-goo eyes at babies and proclaim "I want one!" - had extinguished itself.
There's a sentimental preciousness to my practice, I know, akin to preserving in amber moments that are irrevocably extinguished, but I do this because for me lingerie has always possessed a certain power, and not a merely sexual one.
I hopped over the fence to join them, but my feelings of fulfillment were quickly extinguished when I saw them standing over my horse's ravaged corpse.
