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sprawl about and sprawl around
to slouch or lounge somewhere; to spread oneself out casually while lounging. (Usually refers to habitual action, perhaps in a number of places.) He sprawled about, loafing the afternoon away. When I came into the room, four teenage boys were sprawled around the furniture, watching television. See also: sprawl Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff) examines suburban sprawl around the Arizona city in terms of the rational society, cultural productions of space and time, selling and consuming The American Dream, and rights wars and developing a land ethic. And there's a potent sense of the sprawl around Tokyo which, apart from the ubiquitous screaming neon, "could be any mid-sized American industrial city where misery, arthritis and an early death were in the contract and the air smells tired, overdrawn and underpaid". Pascale cooks, washes and irons for the two boys while they literally sprawl around the oversize farmhouse purchased for them and Pascale by their indulgent father Luc (Patrick Descamps), who lives nearby with a new wife and child. |
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