Striking Nude Model: ‘It’s a tough job’
Under “Latest News” on CNN.com one morning, I read the above headline and thought Wow! I can’t believe CNN would include their opinion of someone’s beauty in a headline, that’s unusual. Then directly below this headline I noticed that on the the list of “most popular videos” was the same piece, titled this: “Nude models on strike.” Oops. I think I interpreted the meaning of “striking” as “beautiful” partly because the word was describing a model. Had the headline been “Striking Garbage Men: ‘It’s a tough job’” I think I may have been less likely to make this mistake.
Also a likely contributor, I rarely (if ever) though of the word “striking” when trying to describe someone’s appearance until a few months ago, when we did an exercise in Rochelle’s creative writing course one day where the class listed as many possible ways to say pretty/beautiful, and someone put ’striking’ on the list. I know it became a highly activated word in my mind for sometime afterward, because I caught myself using it rather frequently thereafter.
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