remora

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• He just moves on, as if we were unworthy of his attention, like the remoras which hitch a free ride on his flanks, and which he brushes off if they carelessly move within reach of his flippers.
• Needless to say, neither Andrew Wilkow nor his remora, Nick Rizzuto, is a punk. Chez Pazienza: With Friends Like These...
• But, alas, I imagine that Ickes and Carville will still be stuck, remora like, to the Party's underbelly for years to come. Harold Ickes Confirms That Wright Is Key Topic In Discussions With Super-Delegates
• Alas, as the 1970s turned to the 1980s, the two major corporate publishers, Marvel and DC, turned their backs on the general audience -- especially children -- to saturate the emerging (adult) fan market flocking to comics specialty stores, and since the fan market wanted superheroes and more superheroes, that's what the Big Two, and a remora-school of wannabes, gave them. The Myth of the Fall of the American Comic Book
• Perhaps the best indication of scale are the remoras clinging beneath its chin.
• Volunteering, visiting schools, traveling to government agencies to help remoralize employees, raising her adorable daughters; she's an incredible asset to Obama at a perilous time. Salon
• I get caught, not only do I give away that I'm a spy and I'm here - I'll also likely as not lose the part of myself that's latched onto the servant like a remora to a shark. The Peacock King: Book 1, Chapter 1
• Thus the fateful clash between settlers from the culture of Aristotle, St. Paul, Da Vinci, Luther, and Newton and aboriginal horsemen from the buffalo plains happened as though in a time warp—as though the former were looking backward thousands of years at premoral, pre-Christian, low-barbarian versions of themselves. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
• Your first dive will probably find you very excited about meeting your first giant green turtle, bedecked with remoras, lethargically allowing you to record its portrait.
• Its really hard to know whether Lanny Davis is totally lacking in even the slightest trace of a sense of irony, or whether he's just another Clinton remora who takes cynicism to the level of pathology. Watch Hillary Meet With Editorial Board -- Live!