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Thu 26 Feb, 2004 01:17 am
How do you call it? Or what proper name do you think it should have? The shoe, for girls, was in fashion 2 years ago in China.
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I guess the word sanction below means "a law or decree", right?
Context:
The majority rejected arguments that the exclusion of divinity students from the state's Promise Scholarship Program was an unconstitutional burden on the free exercise of religion.
The program "imposes neither criminal nor civil sanctions on any type of religious service or rite," Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote for the majority. "It does not deny to ministers the right to participate in the political affairs of the community. And it does not require students to choose between their religious beliefs and receiving a government benefit."
Oristar- It's what do you call it!
Don't know about the shoes, but penalties would be a good synonym for "sanction" as used in your sentence.
They're called platform shoes.
By the way, the use of "heavily" in this thread's title is incorrect.
Thanks Monger.
But the adverb heavily modifies the adjective thick, I'm afraid the usage is proper.
I'm afraid it's not.
"Shoes with heavy, thick soles" would be correct usage.
oristarA wrote:But the adverb heavily modifies the adjective thick, I'm afraid the usage is proper.
"Heavily" and "thick" refer to two different concepts ("Heavily" refers to weight but "thick" refers to a physical dimension like height or width) so heavily doesn't really modify thick at all.
At best the wording should be "heavy, thick soles" where both words are used as adjectives to describe the soles.
It's just another of the quirks of English. Even though the word "Heavily" is an adverb you also have to match the context of the words to make them fit in a sentence.
Okay, just use shoe with very thick sole.
Thanks.
I think you might want "shoe with a lug sole."
http://www.bartleby.com/61/39/L0283950.html
It has come to be a fashion term, though, not just work boots.
OK, that is more like platform, then, as Monger said.
The first picture is textbook platform shoe. The second one could be platform or could just be "thick-soled" -- I can't think of a more concise term for it. Just a sec...
Figured out what I was going for -- a wedge sole:
http://www.zappos.com/n/es/d/722000903.html
Platforms have separate heels, rather than all one piece:
http://www.zappos.com/n/es/d/722000908.html
Thanks sozobe.
But I could not open the links you offered from China (NN reported timed out)
Oh, sorry. Zappos.com has a "boots" category that has subcategories -- in the "wedge" subcategory you get shoes that look like this:
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