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unpacking
verb
Present participle of unpack
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In his autobiographical novel, The Kindness of Women, JG Ballard glosses his experience of dissection as a Cambridge medical student thus: "As the four teams began to dissect this unknown woman, opening flaps of skin in her limbs, neck and abdomen, she seemed to undress in a last act of self-revelation, unpacking herself of all the mortal elements of her life".
Always be secure Ensure your hotel has double-locking doors and that both work before unpacking.
On the one hand we have Haneke, whose "anti-genre" film Funny Games held a mirror up to American film violence, unpacking it of thrills and subjecting audiences instead to the sickening, prolonged agony of the real thing.
John Updike, who rummaged through his own life for fictional source material, used to speak of writing as "unpacking" his bag.
Behind it, an Asian family is unpacking cardboard boxes.
A long game Closing the gaps What needs to change Unpacking the problem Sources & acknowledgmentsReprints Related items Unpacking the problemDec 3rd 2009This binary division has fostered an us-and-them attitude that gets in the way of agreement and forces together countries that have little in common.
Engineers are always on the lookout for new ways to pack more information onto them; listeners and viewers and downloaders are always quick to use new bandwidth.One idea already in use is "multiplexing", the process of packing streams of data into different colours or polarisations of light and then unpacking all that data at the receiving end.
It was, after all, mainly Jabhat al-Nusra that drove IS out of Idlib province in January.Now at home, I have just finished unpacking the two big suitcases that I brought back with me from the Gaziantep.
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