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While bumps (1592) as `gestures of concupiscence' (1340) are now automatically associated with grinds, our ancestors used many words to describe lumps (1475) in the skin.
Bumps, Grinds and Other Lewd (1389) Gestures
But take away the telephone and the world grinds to a halt.
A conceit this fragile needs to whiz along to keep our disbelief in suspension, but Meet Joe Black grinds on for three hours (longer than either Beloved or Saving Private Ryan ), and Pitt acts as if he has leased the screen by the year.
Army striding through some South Seas devastation from Apocalypse Now . What's uniquely his own is the way the havoc periodically grinds to a halt to make room for "relationship" scenes, in which the characters maintain a soap-opera obliviousness to everything (crumbling skyscrapers, fire-breathing beasts) but their feelings .