Give me the streets of Manhattan, he wrote, "O such for me! O an intense life, full to repletion and varied!" And then he moved to New Jersey.
Anorexia, persistent lack of appetite not caused by repletion.
With the bowl games at hand, the N.B.A. and N.H.L. seasons in full flow, the N.F.L. playoffs just ahead, and pitchers-and-catchers a bare six weeks away, sports fans may be wondering once again why all this repletion isn't more satisfying.
The single day's worth of action presents us not with a sense of the world's repletion, as in the circadian "Ulysses" or "Mrs. Dalloway," but of its grotesque inconsequence.
She was filled with desire for the unfortunate and terrified gentleman she was pursuing, and especially for his larva-nourishing fatty tissues — a desire that was consummated, at the very end of the story, with a sigh of ecstasy and repletion.
For a minute I had a feeling of repletion that could never come from canned succotash--only from the real thing.
He decided to give this $2,520 gift to Lady Francesca to repay her for having wined & dined him to repletion.
"We swallow a Chekhov story as if it were an ice," she writes, "and cannot account for our feeling of repletion".
