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quick Biology 1. composed of living plants 2. any area of living flesh that is highly sensitive to pain or touch, esp that under a toenail or fingernail or around a healing wound quick [kwik] (geology) Referring to a sediment that, when mixed with or absorbing water, becomes extremely soft, incoherent, or loose, and is capable of flowing easily under load or by force of gravity. Referring to a soil in which a decrease in effective stress allows water to flow upward with sufficient velocity to reduce significantly the soil's bearing capacity. Referring to a highly porous soil that readily absorbs heat. (mining engineering) Referring to an economically valuable or productive mineral deposit.
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Each vignette is brief yet directly cuts to the quick of John Paul's philosophy and understanding. Even more paradoxically, perhaps, the photographic process, miniaturizing and crystallizing every detail of these man-made worlds, cuts to the quick of filmic fascination. This narrative device makes it difficult to sort out who's who in the beginning, but the direct and powerful idiomatic language cuts to the quick. |
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