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Teo Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary
claustrophobic purgatory
claus·tro·pho·bic 
–adjective
pur·ga·to·ry –noun
How could the exquisite choreography of Grand Central Terminal, with its powerful beams of natural light making what Mr. Rockwell called a "gateway inviting people into the city," coexist with the claustrophobic purgatory of Penn Station?
What does the claustrophobic purgatory mean?
–adjective | 1. | pertaining to or suffering from claustrophobia. |
| 2. | tending to induce claustrophobia: a small, airless, claustrophobic room. |
pur·ga·to·ry –noun
| 1. | (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner. |
How could the exquisite choreography of Grand Central Terminal, with its powerful beams of natural light making what Mr. Rockwell called a "gateway inviting people into the city," coexist with the claustrophobic purgatory of Penn Station?
What does the claustrophobic purgatory mean?
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Penn Station (I have never been there) is evidently crowded or small or the architecture is overbearing and windowless ('claustrophobic') and hard to endure ('purgatory'-- often used to mean 'almost ****').
- Penn Station (I have never been there) is evidently crowded or small or the architecture is overbearing and windowless ('claustrophobic') and hard to endure ('purgatory'-- often used to mean 'almost ****').
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Penn Station (I have never been there) is evidently crowded or small or the architecture is overbearing and windowless ('claustrophobic') and hard to endure ('purgatory'-- often used to mean 'almost ****').
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Think of purgatory more generally as a place where people suffer.
Penn Station is being called a place so small, compared to the great number of people who pass through it daily, that just to be there is to suffer from the cramped conditions.
CJ
Penn Station is being called a place so small, compared to the great number of people who pass through it daily, that just to be there is to suffer from the cramped conditions.
CJ
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