Cat's Eye — Vocabulary
Margaret Atwood
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The school we are sent to is some distance away, past a cemetery, across a ravine, along a wide curving street lined with older houses.†p.50.1alternate pages24 more

To him it seems appropriate, to me eccentric: it's a defiance of convention, but of a convention he's never heard of.p.417.2alternate pages7 more

In practice this means that she appropriates the MEAT LIKE YOU LIKE IT sign and incorporates it into one of her constructions,p.380.9alternate pages7 more

Each room has its own displays, grouped according to what you are supposed to learn.p.187.4alternate pages8 more

What I want instead is pictures that seem to exist of their own accord.p.354.9alternate pages8 more

She says this lightly but scornfully, as if only a fool would need to ask.†p.78.7alternate pages9 more

The dry voice from the darkness concentrates on the formal properties of the compositions, ... the rendering of textures, the uses of perspective in archways and in the tiles underfoot.p.310.3alternate pages8 more

The boys of our school and the Catholic boys from Our Lady of Perpetual Help throw them at one another, but we would not do that.†p.81.1alternate pages7 more

Up ahead there are huge oblong towers, all of glass, lit up, like enormous gravestones of cold light.†p.9.6alternate pages10 more

At the back are two grandiose entranceways with carvings around them and ornate insets above the doors, inscribed in curvy, solemn lettering: GIRLS and BOYS.†p.51.3alternate pages5 more

I can remember drawing such mustaches myself, and the spite that went into them, the desire to ridicule, to deflate, and the feeling of power.†p.20.8alternate pages7 more

I riffle furtively through the SALE rack, bypassing sequins, angora roses, gold thread, grubby white leather, looking for something.†p.48.5alternate pages5 more

Malicious, grudging, vindictive, implacable.†p.15.1alternate pages4 more

I carry things up the stairs and stow them in the garage. In there they seem disposed of.p.432.5alternate pages2 more

I am at her disposal.p.449.8alternate pages2 more

...a full cotton skirt of a dull blue-green with abstract black swirls and squares on it,p.327.1alternate pages2 more

I am careful and accurate, but I have drawn a person-shaped bottle, inert and without life.†p.298.2alternate pages4 more

I say I favor a chronological approach, but Charna has other ideas; she wants things to go together tonally and resonate and make statements that amplify one another.†p.94.2alternate pages1 more

The second one makes a twirling motion beside his ear, with his finger, denoting craziness.†p.316.3alternate pages1 more

Then I saw what he meant: I was supposed to bring something called "a portfolio of recent work," which meant pictures, so he could judge me.p.296.1alternate pages2 more