The WORD survivor suggests someone who has emerged ALIVE from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day CONFERENCE in EARLY June at Boston College.
Christianity emerged from the RELIGION of ISRAEL. Or rather, it has as its background a PERSISTENT strain in that religion. To that strain CHRISTIANS have looked BACK, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
I'd LIKE to EVENTUALLY be KNOWN as SOMEONE who emerged as a SONGWRITER.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading STAR of the PROGRESSIVE WRITERS who emerged in undivided INDIA.
When he emerged Lou Dobbs the POPULIST, he was so HARD to peg. A mishmash of CONTRADICTIONS: anti-outsourcing, anti-globalization, pro-international-trade, pro-free-enterprise, anti-corporatism, PRO-CHOICE, pro-Second AMENDMENT, pro-gay-marriage, pro-gays-serving-openly-in-the-military, pro-military, anti-war-in-Iraq-and-Afghanistan.
With 'The KEEP,' I began with a theory about pitting the isolated disconnection of the GOTHIC realm against present-day hyperconnectedness. I emerged feeling that the gothic GENRE is all about hyperconnectedness - the possibility of disembodied communication - and that we now live in a KIND of permanently gothic state.