Day: February 26, 2019

Adulting (adj.)

Pronunciation /ˈadʌltɪŋ/ /əˈdʌltɪŋ/ mass noun; informal The practice of behaving in a way characteristic of a responsible adult, especially the accomplishment of mundane but necessary tasks. ‘it feels really good to take a step back from adulting and have someone else cook dinner for me’as modifier ‘I finished all my adulting requirements for the week’

The medieval taste for bright colors is well known. It was a ‘barbarous’ taste, which favored big jewels inserted into the boards of book-bindings, glowing gold objects, brightly painted sculpture, paintings covering the walls of churches and of the houses of the powerful, and the colored magic of stained glass. The almost colorless middle ages…

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