Word: adornment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most prestigious schools of law, portraits of U.S. Supreme Court Justices and Attorneys General adorn the walls. At the grimy University of Detroit law school, the hagiography runs to city and state judges. Housed in a factory-like building, the school has long been one of the nation's many "streetcar law factories," places that cater to ambitious students who lack the money or the grades necessary for legal training elsewhere. For those who use the law as a steppingstone to political careers, U.D. law has been particularly successful: its alumni include 56 judges, eight state legislators, Michigan...
...died in 1926, Michel inherited his collection and kept most of it in his secluded country house at Sorel-Moussel in Normandy. Nobody saw it for 40 years. Paintings were stuffed under beds, piled higgledy-piggledy in the cellar, gathered dust in cupboards. Michel preferred to adorn his walls with antelope horns and stuffed trophies of the African safaris that were his chief interest in life. Whenever he needed some cash to finance another safari, he would pull a Monet out from its storage place and sell...
...early '60s-patches on worn or torn clothing were a mark of poverty, or at least of thrift. The patch has come a long way since then. Today it is colorful, clever, artistic and even ideological. Whether to hide holes on worn clothing or simply to adorn brand-new apparel-especially denim jeans and jackets-patching is the bright...
...this time, the man from Channel 5 has arrived. He and the photo man get together and decide that they want Paul to stand on a pew in view of many of the antiwar posters that adorn the sanctuary. "Right, that's good. Hey, Paul, let's stick that fist up. Right, higher, higher, a bit higher, really high. Great, that's good." The lights from the television make Paul squint and suddenly the quietly eloquent pacifist whose faith in people is innocent but not naive is transformed into some kind of squinty, fist-raised freak...
...fanciest girls are called marquises, while those who adorn the parks are known as bucoliques. A customer who goes from one streetwalker to another without making up his mind is a kangourou. Given the excitement of free enterprise, there would seem to be little allure to the idea of taking up residence in one of Peyret's projected maisons. But Nicole, a redhead who now operates out of a Simca sedan in the Madeleine district, approves. "I have no objection to working in a municipal bordello, on the condition that pimps don't run it." But Valerie, based...