It is a genuine linguistic affliction that causes confusion and imbues our everyday speech with a clumsiness and imprecision that can be maddening.
It didn't take me long to realise how cooking anything from scratch imbues it with an unconscious sense of accomplishment.
Culture is the "way things are done around here"—the HP Way, for example, the open-plan, walkabout management style laid down in the 1950s by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, a style that still imbues the company today.
Much of it tends towards the absurd: consider the inspiring lunacy of Lenny Bruce, the dark surrealism of Franz Kafka or the comparatively light version that imbues the short fiction of Etgar Keret, an Israeli writer.Jewish humour also rests on a closeness but separateness from the societies in which Jews lived particularly Yiddish-speaking Jews in Europe and on paradoxes.
Military service below the executive level may be germane to our assessment of a candidate's character, but I find it hard to see anything offensive in questioning whether it necessarily imbues one with exceptional policy judgement.
Anchored by a thick strip that acts as a plinth for the picture above, a Polaroid imbues even the hastiest snapshots with a certain artistic flair.When Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid, first unveiled his instant camera in 1947, such thoughts were at the front of his mind.
And while Mr Walsh imbues his characters with a real empathy, one gets the sense that he may be stuck as well, repeating the same story again and again.
A similar wit imbues "Carmen?!", the third dance, choreographed by Kenneth Kvarnström.
Mr Majmudar, who is also a poet, imbues his prose with phrases and metaphors that linger with the warmth of spices.
However, many professors remain perplexed at the flak coming their way, arguing that, by its very nature, the case-study method imbues students with a sense of long-term risk.
Yet he imbues his descriptions with a bleak awareness of the passing moment: "Our experience is fleeting, our forgetting rapid".In a rather Rothian project, Mr Hofmann has spent years working to reclaim and translate Roth's scattered writings.
