windowless

Sleeping in windowless crypts sounds like a questionable proposition in Sam's quest to proclaim his kingdom the most "sustainable city in the world".

Countin' flowers on the wall (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

In the study, sixteen men stayed in windowless rooms for nearly a month while the researchers screwed with their circadian rhythms.

Boing Boing: May 16, 2004 - May 22, 2004 Archives 2004

But that means you now need to confront the denial that allowed you somehow to ignore what you directly authorized and commanded: using dogs to terrorize prisoners; stripping detainees naked and hooding them; isolating people in windowless cells for weeks and even months on end; freezing prisoners to near-death and reviving them and repeating the hypothermia; contorting prisoners into stress positions that create unbearable pain in the muscles and joints; cramming prisoners into upright coffins in painful positions with minimal air; near-drowning, on a waterboard, of human beings — in one case 183 times — even after they have cooperated with interrogators.

Dear President Bush, 2009

But that means you now need to confront the denial that allowed you somehow to ignore what you directly authorized and commanded: using dogs to terrorize prisoners; stripping detainees naked and hooding them; isolating people in windowless cells for weeks and even months on end; freezing prisoners to near-death and reviving them and repeating the hypothermia; contorting prisoners into stress positions that create unbearable pain in the muscles and joints; cramming prisoners into upright coffins in painful positions with minimal air; near-drowning, on a waterboard, of human beings — in one case 183 times — even after they have cooperated with interrogators.

Dear President Bush, 2009

But that means you now need to confront the denial that allowed you somehow to ignore what you directly authorized and commanded: using dogs to terrorize prisoners; stripping detainees naked and hooding them; isolating people in windowless cells for weeks and even months on end; freezing prisoners to near-death and reviving them and repeating the hypothermia; contorting prisoners into stress positions that create unbearable pain in the muscles and joints; cramming prisoners into upright coffins in painful positions with minimal air; near-drowning, on a waterboard, of human beings — in one case 183 times — even after they have cooperated with interrogators.

Dear President Bush, 2009

Caterina: "Traditional business development meant spending a lot of money on dry cleaning, animating your powerpoint, drinking stale coffee in windowless conference rooms and scouring the thesaurus looking for synonyms for" synergy ".

Archive 2006-08-01 Ben Barren 2006

Caterina: "Traditional business development meant spending a lot of money on dry cleaning, animating your powerpoint, drinking stale coffee in windowless conference rooms and scouring the thesaurus looking for synonyms for" synergy ".

The Algorithm is the New Bus Dev Veep Ben Barren 2006

The basalt floor likely belongs to the Casa Denegrida, or the Black House, which Spanish conquerors described as a windowless room painted in black, Hernandez said.

Montezuma's Palace Excavated In Mexico City 2008

John recalled the windowless cubby-hole in the rear of the Spring street saloon where "Slim" Gray, Cummings 'lieutenant, had returned to him the $10 he had put up in bail and $10 as compensation for having been on hand when Gibson made the sensational raid.

Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles James H. Richardson

As this month begins the ninth year of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan, "windowless" seems to be an apt metaphor.

Norman Solomon: Starting Another Year of the War in Afghanistan 2009