Willa Cather

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

American Author

Asif Kapadia

Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away, to some far flung place.

British Director

Sharon Needles

I don't care how many times I play 'Angry Birds.' When you have the world's cares on your shoulders and you fling those little birds at those rotten pigs, then the whole world just melts away.

American Entertainer

Sarah Pinborough

I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you a perspective on the world and people that adds flavour to your writing.

English Writer

Nia Vardalos

I believe that there are moments in everyone's lives where a door flings open, and if you're terrified of what's on the other side, you must walk through it.

Canadian Actress

Bradley Chicho

Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.

English Poet

Sophocles

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Greek Poet

Emil Cioran

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Romanian Philosopher

Julian Lennon

I'm not one for flings, I can tell you that.

English Musician

Matthew Green

British Poet

Indicates a strong, often sudden action or emotion.

Intensity

Used when something is thrown without care for where it lands.

Physical Motion

Highlights dramatic or exaggerated movement, often due to emotions.

Dramatic Action

Emphasizes a quick or impulsive action, typically without much thought.

Suddenness

Refers to an experience that is brief and not intended to last.

Short-lived

Often has a light-hearted or carefree connotation.

Playful Tone

Used when something is placed without concern for order or neatness.

Carelessness

Indicates aggressive or confrontational criticism, often in public.

Harsh Words

Usually accompanies strong emotions like anger or frustration.

Emotional Intensity

 and flung it back at itself, slicing space for you." Tell her the truth, how you lived in spite of crooked odds. Tell her you were brave, and always, always in the company of courage, mostly the days when you just had yourself. Tell her she was born as you were, as your mothers before, and the sisters beside them, in the age of legends, like always.

Chinaka Hodge: What will...

 is objectively seen by the world as bad, and the other one is objectively seen by the world as good, but your subconscious is completely incapable of discerning the difference between bad and good. The only thing that it is capable of feeling is the absolute value of this emotional equation, the exact distance that you have been flung

Success, failure and the...

 to push themselves forward in a world where water feels as thick as cork. Other strategies are even stranger. Some bacteria take Batman's approach. They use grappling hooks to pull themselves along. They can even use this grappling hook like a sling shot and fling themselves forward. Others use chemical engineering.

Human sperm vs. the...

 each time with a little more empathy, a little more nuance, a little more curiosity. And our journalists and moderators work really hard to support this because it's not a debate, it's not a battle, it's not a Sunday morning talk show. It's not the flinging of talking points. It's not the stacking of memes and gifs

How to lead a...

 of the universe. Nestled within the far flung Kuiper belt the dwarf planet is believed to be one of the countless celestial objects left over from the formation of the solar system. While it is one of the Kuiper belts largest bodies,

Pluto 101 PIPE National...

 in the jet, shown here in white. Although the blazar system is rare, the process by which nature pulls in material via a disk, and then flings some of it out via a jet, is more common. We'll eventually zoom out of the blazar system

Jedidah Isler: How I...

 our mobile work and play rely on legions of overworked computer servers, warehoused in gigantic data centers flung across the world. This is called cloud computing, and it leads to two big heat waste and bandwidth demand.

The hidden network that...

 chick to you my first puff fling so this this will be the first time this puffin has seen the outside world so I'm just gonna put it in your hand there you go that's it oh look hi hi there kisi come

Cute Baby Puffin Sees...

 With all this gravitational power comes huge responsibility. Jupiter originally flung water into the inner solar system, creating the conditions for life on Earth. So thank you, Jupiter.

Uncovering Jupiter's...

 five my man fling my knee and I try to dance

Fling

To throw something with force.

Often appears as...

To move yourself suddenly and with a lot of force.

Often appears as...

A short period of enjoyment or wild behaviour.

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To put something somewhere carelessly.

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To criticize harshly.

Often appears as...

Intensity

Physical Motion

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