Is "prayerfully" even a fucking word?
I can't figure out how to make it one. It's being used as an adverb, but I can only make it mean- in a way that suggests prayer- which doesn't work in the context.
Sir? I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.
Zoe ,'Serenity'
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Daisy Jane - Mar 18, 2005 9:06:28 am PST #7619 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Pix - Mar 18, 2005 9:06:52 am PST #7620 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Nora, I'm sorry your day (and boss) is treating you so badly.
Lyra Jane - Mar 18, 2005 9:08:04 am PST #7621 of 10001
Up with the sun
I feel equally horrible about the idea of her starving to death
What's upsetting about that to me is, clearly, there are kinder ways for her life to end, probably many of which are easily available in her nursing home. If the courts and her husband have decided she would not want to live in this state, why slow starvation instead of a relatively quick overdose of painkillers? We treat convicted murderers better.
(I understand that, in the eyes of the law, there's a difference between removing life support and actively killing someone, but the life support removal seems crueler in this case.)
erikaj - Mar 18, 2005 9:09:07 am PST #7622 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I think I know what they're going for, a sort of reverent, no-party-hats,optimism and peace but those people? Scare me. And they make me want to heave.
Connie Neil - Mar 18, 2005 9:10:07 am PST #7623 of 10001
brillig
why slow starvation instead of a relatively quick overdose of painkillers
Because that removes the option of a miracle.
tommyrot - Mar 18, 2005 9:11:34 am PST #7624 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think people are prayerfully waiting for a miracle - for God to replace the fluid with brain.
Steph L. - Mar 18, 2005 9:13:35 am PST #7625 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Is "prayerfully" even a fucking word?
I can't figure out how to make it one. It's being used as an adverb, but I can only make it mean- in a way that suggests prayer- which doesn't work in the context.
It's an adverb that means "in a prayerful manner." So the manner in which the family was excited was in a prayerful manner, one assumes.
And before anyone asks, yes, there are prayers of excitement, or prayers said during something exciting.
[I don't agree with Schiavo's parents and I damn well don't agree with the people who insist on dragging God into everything. My point, such as it is, is only that of a pedantic grammarian who used to belong to a church that prayed their asses off any chance they got.]
sj - Mar 18, 2005 9:14:24 am PST #7626 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I really don't like feeding tubes as a rule. My grandmother suffered for years with ALS unable talk or move any part of her body other than her eyes. The disease would have killed her years earlier if wasn't for the feeding tube.
Emily - Mar 18, 2005 9:14:27 am PST #7627 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
It's being used as an adverb, but I can only make it mean- in a way that suggests prayer- which doesn't work in the context.
Well, "full of prayer"; or, following the examples of pitifully, "causing prayer," or hopefully, "deleting prayerfully and sticking a '[subject] pray[s]' onto the beginning of the sentence."
ChiKat - Mar 18, 2005 9:16:26 am PST #7628 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
want to come live in the cave with me? We'll install one of those hugeass jaccuzi tubs.
That sounds quite lovely.