Or they may be slim tales or treatises, distilling love to its essence and running it through endless filters of analysis, imagination, reflection, and interrogation.
"They're running it through very, very quickly.
It is true, Chicagoans call it "running it through the garden".
The shoulders slump, while the rider focuses on the card, running it through again and again.
In an e-mail, Peter Kafka of AllThings D, considered the value of Twitter in a big news event by running it through the way-back machine.
First, instead of injecting liquid nitrogen directly into the engine's cylinder, his system boils it by running it through a system of pipes called a heat exchanger.
These are removed from the dialysate by running it through a substance called a sorbent, which soaks up the waste and is binned once a day.
They may also clear a bag by having a dog sniff it or by running it through a machine that detects explosives or by searching it by hand.
Mr. Joel often expresses an opinion or emotion, then almost immediately holds that opinion or emotion up for analysis, as though running it through some internal truth check.
"There's nothing wrong with improving a good, but tough, cut of beef by running it through a tenderizer, and then selling it at beef prices," the authors wrote.
Mr. Obama, 45, said he had not decided if he would actually run for president, saying he was running it "through the traps".
