Drunken, alarmingly uninhibited, sometimes just plain alarming, a bouchon is a Lyonnais peculiarity.
Because to me, the ease in which President Obama routinely green-lights these unilateral top-secret little mini-acts of war is plain alarming -- particularly when carried out by a man who balked about the illegal war in Iraq and who was also at one time a constitutional law professor.
The Plains Indians, alarmed by the depletion of the buffalo and unhappy with the government's treaties, were also restless.
There is Riverdale in the Bronx; Bayside, Queens Bayy Ridge, Brooklyn; and even Lower Manhattan, which except for Sept. 11, was once considered an empty plain of false alarms in high-rises.
Our chosen read was Catch-22, which, by chance and to our delight, contains a quotation from a Mathew Arnold poem which in the show I, as Professor Faber, recite to Montag: And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
And since none of us can get off the universe to command the view from nowhere that might resolve the puzzle once and for all, we are caught, as Matthew Arnold expressed it, "… as on a darkling plain / Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, / Where ignorant armies clash by night".
Now they want more; too much more, say alarmed centralists and plain patriots.
The facts are as plain as day, and they're alarming.
It is normally just a white protein powder, and its plain appearance has led to false alarms in detecting it.
A Republican, Representative Gil Gutknecht, expressed similar alarm and made it plain that he was not close to being persuaded about the wisdom of long-range deficits.
