eternal; unlimited; endless
sudden change; complete change
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
brittle; fragile; weak; tender-hearted; sentimental; easily moved
living thing; living creature; animal; life
what did you just say (to me)?; what's that?
to scoff; to laugh at; to make fun of; to ridicule; to jeer at
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
to stick into and move around; to dig around in; to pick (i.e. one's teeth)
to go along; to walk along; to follow
feel (i.e. tactile sensation); touch; feeling; sensation; texture (e.g. food, cloth)
kind; tender-hearted; compassionate
intently; single-mindedly; devotedly; solely; earnestly; with all one's heart
spicy; hot; salty; harsh (criticism); severe (punishment); painful
to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
to squeeze out; to wring out
to use one's influence; to pull strings; to take measures; to make the necessary preparations
imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action
(a place) within one's reach
fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)
ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist
to say goodbye; to bid farewell
together; at the same time; same; identical
to wake up; to awake; to perk up; to awaken (to the truth, etc.); to come to a realization; to come to one's senses
reality; actuality; hard fact
how long; how much; to what extent
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends
courage; bravery; valour; valor; nerve; boldness
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
to act violently; to rage; to struggle; to be riotous
sense of helplessness; feeling of powerlessness
to torment; to torture; to harass
anything and everything; just about everything
to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
to be worm-eaten; to be eaten by worms; to affect adversely; to spoil; to ruin
to look away; to avert one's eyes
to have a hard time of it
now that; since; so long as; because
duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability; onus