Suddenly, the air was thick with words not heard in America for months.
Her smile was made crooked by swollen lips, and when she spoke, her voice emerged thick, her words slurred.
"The word comes from 'boswijck,' meaning thick woods".
I can make out some words, thick with accent and idiom: womb, wash, taint.
Thick with knotty words and bizarre juxtapositions, these poems dissolve syntax and estrange language from conventional meaning.
This is a crowded book, in other words, thick with crazy ideas and even crazier people, and for a while its "and another thing" comprehensiveness keeps us entertained.
But in the thick silences between words, her presence is always felt, while Dan exhales noisily with each faltering step he takes.
Language — not elision — is the primary material of Cohen's oeuvre, and his method of negotiating his way toward meaning is like powering straight through a thick wall of words.
* * * Miliband was in his Liverpool hotel room on the evening of 27 September 2011 when he caught a glimpse of what looked like a newspaper front page with the words "Thick as a Brick" on the screen of Wood's BlackBerry.
I had been forewarned by Doug Hardy and Bob Reeves, men of experience and skill in the iceboating community, that the ice at this part of the bay is only a couple of inches thick — in other words, dangerously thin.
