A sentence with
“... urban birds in cities such as pigeons ...” matches the pattern “C such as E” with C bound to city and
E bound to pigeon, leading to city as a hypernym of pigeon.
accounts of our lives ceded to and recoded by search engines and social networking sites.
"Wasn't once enough? -- Krapp’s last tapes
a delay in glass as you would say a poem in prose or a spittoon in sil-ver
BRANDS, for teenagers,
are fleeting things. Skip to next paragraph.
The growing trend of erasable media — ephemeral photos, videos and com-ments which are here one minute, gone the next. Teens treat these apps like pot, enjoyed in low-lit corners, and all for the undeniable pleas-ure and temporary fulfillment of feeling cool.
As he or she or they exited a Nocibé perfume and beauty supplies store, they were asked to indicate their approval or disagreement with state-ments such as “I like to try new perfumes” (taste for novelty), “I’m faithful to the perfumes I wore when I first started to go out” (nos-talgia), and “I’d like to wind back the clock a few years” (regret about the past).
there's a beautiful parallel with the world and brands and communica-tion. the moments in which brands connect with people are fleeting and becoming more so.
Snapchat is where we can really be ourselves while being attached to our social identity.