Word: admits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clawing to be let loose. This sets the stage for the inevitable slip-up. One day, you’ll be eating in the dining hall and between bites of Emerald Beef someone will allude to her high school science-fiction club. Before you know it, they will admit that they kind of, sort of, held the office of president. Because these geek-tendencies have less of an academic basis, often only close friends are privy to the geek’s “Star Wars” fascination...
...before gay was cool (that would be the summer of 2003, when Queer Eye for the Straight Guy became a brief TV sensation). Indeed, homosexual roles are prize-winning plums for actors-like Hoffman in Capote -as long as they aren?t gay, or, if they are, don?t admit...
...what about cases of rape and incest, where there is overwhelming public support for allowing abortion as an option? Here the lawmakers admit that they carved out a little gray area. Hunt notes that the bill forbids doctors from prescribing any drug or doing any procedure on a pregnant woman ?with the specific intent? of ending a pregnancy. It also protects the right of women to use ? a contraceptive measure, drug or chemical, if it is administered prior to the time when a pregnancy could be determined through conventional medical testing...
...rebalance the scales. ?You have two human beings here. In the United States, where we value life, we?re big fans of the underdog, perhaps the life of an unborn child is more critical and more important than a woman making a choice. It?s a balancing act, I admit. But when you put the proper weights on the scale, it will favor protecting the life of unborn children...
...True Oscar scholars - and admit it, people, there are millions of you, filling out your office-pool Oscar ballots, summoning your expertise on movies most of you haven?t seen - are as meticulous and obsessive as Talmudists or sabermetricians. You pore over past winners for clues to this year?s. You know that the trick is to find the leading indicators, the stats that transcend the conventional wisdom to become the actual, factual wisdom...