If that were to occur, American troops stationed in South Korea could move north and help unite the Korean Peninsula under an American umbrella, the last thing China would want, Mr. Jia said.
Also characteristic, it echoes with the pangs of isolation: Only twice in twelve long years Has the Self in me transformed To weighing less than a cent, And blended with the evening, Or heard ringing in my ears, Or seen a star do its thing, Umbrellaed aloft on air.
In contrast, the umbrella leaves the hidden thing out in the open, so it can "see" its surroundings.
Citing the excellent things in "Umbrella" is easier than citing the less excellent.
Off to the side, a middle-aged woman in a poncho sat on a bicycle watching; under another rain cover, she had an umbrella stroller full of things.
Do you want to use it for walking canes or other things?" An umbrella stand, she added, "is an anonymous functional object".
"He said, 'You forgot nothing?' I said, 'No, I forgot three things: an umbrella stand, a child's cradle and a pair of skis.' " Together, she said, those items weighed about 20 pounds.
We here in the tech press have gotten used to categorizing new, interesting products that are getting smart and connected under the umbrella term "Internet of Things".
On the hardware front, Gartner uses the umbrella moniker of autonomous things to bundle the likes of drones, autonomous vehicles and robots in one big mechanical huddle — spying a trend of embodied AIs that "automate functions previously performed by humans" and work in swarming concert.
How often I've left places thinking I've been lumped in under some huge umbrella, told to do things which made logical sense but which I needed to do so intensely and frequently that the stress incurred was sometimes worse than the illness.
