Word: akin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...book provides a view of history that is akin to walking past displays in a museum. Like a wax museum, it has its chamber of horrors--but everything in good taste and proportion, subdued by esthetic distance...
Granting of limited service to the Concorde SST [Jan. 19] would be akin to planting a small bomb in Times Square to see if its effect were boon or bane...
...Delacroix's watercolor sketch of a tiger, lying on some imaginary ridge in Algeria with the ripples of its striped back imitating the profile of mountains in the background, is to be reminded how that animal - an embodiment of natural force to the Romantics - was for Delacroix akin to a self-portrait...
...with absurdity piled on absurdity. It is silly to criticize a movie for not being faithful to a perverse and distasteful novel. But it is equally ridiculous to spend time at a movie that insists-as its source really did not-that torture can be a lovely, romantic experience akin to a walk in the spring rain. Oddest of all is the success with which the film is luring viewers of both sexes. Women's lib, where are you when we need...
Austrian Catholic Theologian Adolf Holl also believes that the essentials the church sought in saints have not altered. The saint must exhibit a heroic degree of virtue akin to the asceticism that ancient athletes and warriors strove to perfect. And the works of a saint must be out of the ordinary, almost unique. He or she should have a charisma or aura, the kind of radiance that was classically symbolized by a halo. The life of a saint should display a certain personal serenity...