Clearly, with her cigars and complex love life, Sand was a different animal from Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Charlotte Brontë, whose lives and moral values were ultimately bourgeois, despite their chafing against the patriarchal order.
Over his life, Sand made about 14 kilograms of acid enough for 140 million trips.
In real life, Sands' diary refers to two such priests: Father Murphy and Father Toner.
The Namib Desert, Namibia Larger-than-life sand dunes are the ultimate thrill in a desert some 43 million years old.
Real-life sand-pile avalanches, like the collapse of the Soviet Union or the 1929 crash of the stock market, Mr. Ramo declares, demand "a complete remapping of the world": policymakers must junk a lot of their old thinking to cope with this unpredictable new order.
EVERY year, it seems, the vacationers and second-home owners arrive earlier in Leland, Mich., attracted by the spirit-altering sunsets over the shipwreck-salted Manitou Islands and a modest life of sand, trees and deep blue water.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is magnificent as Willy Loman, the unspooling protagonist who, after decades of hard work, realizes (and is destroyed by the realization) that he has built his life on sand; how much strain and disappointment, how much stooped, shuffling anguish Hoffman is able to communicate simply by walking from one side of the stage to the other!
Everyone spends his life throwing sand in his neighbors' eyes.
While most of Florida's beaches offer everything from volleyball nets to jet skis to free wi-fi -- there are times when a trip to the shore should just rejuvenate the soul, scrubbing away the stresses of life like sand that scrubs at the soles of bare feet.
Tourism is a major industry, accounting (in 2014) for 7.8% of the Gross Domestic Product, 8500 jobs (3.2% of total employment), 40.7% of total exports and 3.1% of total investment (WTTC 2015), where the warm waters, exotic marine life, white-sand beaches, surfing and tropical coastline are big draws (e.g., The Lonely Planet 2015; Michelin Green Guide 2015).
It may reflect differences in life-style (sand-burrowing vs. sessile) and/or the threefold higher genome size in amphioxus compared to the tunicate, which is thought to have undergone substantial gene loss [ 27].
