A coach, team owner, athletic director or public official who publicly excuses , colludes or conceals the illegal activities of an athlete/s for financial or professional gain to the detriment of wider society.
They can usually be found in newspaper and TV puff pieces defending the athlete with proclamations of "He did a bad thing and he regrets it , but he's good now."
Person 1 : "Did you see the news? The running back of (Insert sports team) just got arrested for breaking some guys face because he cut him up in traffic.
Person 2: Ahhh shit there goes our season he is going to have to go to jail.
Person 1: Nah his silver haired middle aged white man will be on the phone to the sheriffs office getting that shit squashed.
A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely observed in vivid sensory details-‘raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee’-briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake
Origins: From albedo, a physics term that describes the proportion of light reflected by a substance (from Latin, 'whiteness'). Ambedo refers to the tendency both to reflect and to absorb. So add the prefix ambi, 'both' -and we have a new word, ambedo. Ambedo is also a Latin word meaning "I gnaw" or "I weather away."
“Today I find myself caught in a state of ambedo as I watch the world around me.”