painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to think of (a far-off person, place, etc.); to cast one's mind to; to worry about; to feel anxious about
virtue; charm; merit; good point
daring; fearless; intrepid; bold; tough
reduction by half; halving
individual; private person; personal; natural person
father; father (e.g. of a discipline); pioneer (e.g. of field of research); God; Father
that gentleman; that lady; he; she
gallant; manly; brave; imposing; awe-inspiring; chivalrous
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
space; air; midair; (from) memory; (by) heart
to drool; to dribble; to slobber
disposition; inclination; characteristic; sexual disposition; fetish
deep (hole, forest, snow, etc.); dense (e.g. fog); thick (e.g. weeds, woods); close (e.g. relationship); deep (involvement); intense (e.g. longing, flavor); severe
family a woman has married into
murder; killing; murderer
monopoly; monopolization; exclusivity; hogging; keeping to oneself
emphasizing (a point, argument, etc.); stressing; insistence; arguing strongly (for, against)
and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism
ordinary; average; common; normal; like the average person; like most people
to lean (to one side); to incline; to be unbalanced (e.g. diet); to be unduly weighted towards; to be partial; to be biased
to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled
unworthy; unbecoming; improper
to be based on; to take into account; to build upon; to have one's feet firmly planted on; to plant oneself on
intention; wish; purpose; mind (to do)
existing (between); interposition; intervention; involvement
(way of) life; lifestyle; living; life circumstances; livelihood; day-to-day life
contribution (furthering a goal or cause); services (to a cause); paying tribute; tribute
theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse
reason for living; something one lives for; purpose in life; raison d'être; ikigai
(an actor) conveying qualities of a character without gestures or speech; implied acting; implicitly asserting one's will (e.g. by sheer force of personality); performance using one's stomach (e.g. by drawing a face on it and animating it using one's abdominal muscles); acrobatics performed on a laid-out person's belly
choosing; selecting; deciding (on)
marriage of convenience; marriage for political reasons
failure; collapse; breakdown; (arch.) tear (in clothing, etc.); (arch.) rip; (arch.) split
regarding as a sure thing; seeing as a certainty
forming a familial relationship (through adoption, marriage, etc.); adoption