When Sick Boy chides his pal for being "a tourist in your own youth," you start to wonder: is Boyle rebuking himself, warding off accusations of nostalgia, or — as I like to think — grappling with the sadness and the madness of being addicted to the highs of your lost life?
Speaking of which, Sick Boy greets his old pal with a measure of relative bonhomie, given he was also a victim of that entirely reasonable betrayal.
His old pal Jeter looked sick as he made the mandatory response to A-Rod's comments about how common drug use was back in the olden days, a few years past.
For instance, the double mutant Δ ompA-Δ pal shows a sick phenotype in rich media, while it showed lethality in minimal media.
Joseph is on friendly terms with a young neighbor, and has a couple of pals -- one of them is sick, then dead -- but the dominant spectrum of his personality runs from simmering truculence to uncontrollable fury.
As Ramadan approaches in a few weeks, Muslim teenagers will again get sick and tired of explaining the concept to their non-Muslim pals.
Call your dear pal and apologize: "I got so worked up over the prospect of getting sick that I jumped the gun.
Sick of being told that Scottish rappers just won't cut it, Bain and his pal Billy create false identities for themselves, pose as Californians and score an enormous record contract.
An Arsenal pal reminds me of the match in 2006 when Tottenham players turned up sick, at first blamed on the lasagna at the team hotel, later attributed to a virus one of the players was carrying.
But Pal Benko, a grandmaster who lives in Budapest, said he thought Mr. Fischer had been a sick man.
