![]() Lilly Workneh, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023 Providence’s current eight-course tasting menu (from $295 per person) changes daily. 2023 The one thing the state doesn’t have is a lot of soundstage facilities, but that is quickly changing. Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. ![]() changeġ.Verb JMore than 130,000 people have signed a petition urging the new owners of the Commanders to change the team’s name to the one that had been used from 1933 to 2019 - a name that was considered by some Native Americans to be offensive. (Moods may) veer as erratically as the wind -Milton R.The switch is like going from Star Wars to stagecoaches -David “Doc” Livingston, commenting on enforced job switch (from controlling air traffic to controlling commuter trains), as quoted in New York Times article about fired air controllers by N.(And all the shapes of this grand scenery) shifted like restless clouds before the steadfast sun -Percy Bysshe Shelley.Sailing through change as effortlessly as gulls -Gail Godwin.Popped out and disappeared like a heat rash -George Garrett.Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion but stay in the same place -Austin O’Malley.Mood … swinging like an erratic pendulum from being hurt to hurting -Ross Macdonald.metamorphoses … like a butterfly bursting out of a cocoon -Frank Rich, New York Times, January 21, 1986.it was like stepping from a gondola to an ocean steamer -Edith Wharton.Reverend Pike’s advice was aimed at preventing anxiety. In our changes we should move like a caterpillar, part of which is stationary in every advance, not like the toad -James A.Get used to … like listening to your own heart -Marguerite Duras.Everything changed … like the rug, the one that gets pulled -Alberto Alvaor Rios.Ever changing, like a joyless eye that finds no objects worth its constancy -Percy Bysshe Shelley.Changes his mood like a wizard -Joan Chase.Changes … as breath-taking as a Celtics fast break -Larry McCoy, Wall Street Journal article about changes at CBS network, December 4, 1986.(Life) changed like fluffy clouds -Rita Mae Brown. ![]() Change of attitude … like a fish gliding with a flick of its tail, now here, now there -Jean Rhys.A change, like a shift of wind, overcame the judge -Truman Capote.Changeful as a creature of the tropical sea lying under a reef -Saul Bellow.Changed moods like a strobe of shifting lights -Alvin Boretz.Changed … like the shift of key in a musical score -Lawrence Durrell.Changed his mind regularly, like shirts -Anon.In her novel, The Murder of Miranda Millar, expands the simile as follows: “Gaining a few points here, losing a few there.” (Hopes) changed daily like the stock market -Margaret Millar.(Her expression would) change as quickly as a sky with clouds racing across the moon -Madeleine L’Engle.Some examples: “Changeable/unpredictable as April weather or as the sky in April” and “Changeable like Midwestern weather -violent and highly volatile.” ![]() The variations this has sprouted typify the simple simile’s extension through more particularization.
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