Word: aloftness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dream, reduced to a semislattern with one thing on her mind. Here is the princely Dowell, once her dashing Oberon, as an even more unsatisfying lover, a sexually indeterminate gigolo with Saturday-night fever. At the end of the first, teasingly erotic pas de deux, Dowell effortlessly lifts Sibley aloft and, in one graceful, fluid motion, floats her offstage. The gesture promises a lovers' private communion. Yet, in the end, it turns out to be only funning foreplay: the stranger, it seems, is less interested in the lady of the house than he is in regaining his sunglasses...
Eastern stays aloft-at a price...
...Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might." But it is one thing to decry evil and another to identify its source. If we are to trust Reagan's ability to find and combat evil, it makes sense to check the man's track record on holding aloft the torch of freedom. It doesn't look good...
After receiving the coveted bowl, Olson held it aloft while his teammates hoisted their captain onto their shoulders. The mass of hockey players skated towards the fans and raised their fingers while the crowd chanted, "We're number one, we're number...
...delay involves the most serious problem yet encountered with the troubled Challenger: a basic defect in design that requires overhauling all three of the main engines. Unless the flaw can be quickly corrected, the problem could create a horrendous backup of civilian and military satellites waiting to be carried aloft and add millions of dollars to the cost of the shuttle program...