Immolate is the root word
One time at home I was sitting at the counter and lightly kicking the wall (because I was bored,) and got a wooden splinter stuck under my toenail. That's pretty vanilla but as a kid it was the grossest thing that happened to me.
Answer:
When drug or alcohol abuse consumes a person’s life, one of the first things to go is the person’s ability to make rational, moral choices. He (or she) can no longer make the kind of simple judgments that the unaddicted can make easily. The addict will feel that getting and using drugs is more important than caring for his or her children, holding a job or being a responsible citizen. That is the kind of domination that addictive drug cravings have over the addict. It’s like the addict is in prison with no possibility of escape.
<span>Because the 'sanctity' of one thing, vs the non-sanctity of another is all the vanity of the judgmental dualistic imagination, the ego, of the beholder!!</span><span>
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Metaphor.
The author is comparing one thing to another by saying it is something else.
