Word: amidst
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many pre-frosh hosts will have negative responses to these questions. Excluding workloads and the weather, there is perhaps no more popular topic about which Harvard students complain than class size and professors. Amidst the grumbling, only infrequently does anyone note that these so-called problems are much more a function of student, not Faculty, behavior...
...Amidst all of this mess, Holly Hunter stands out as the film's shining star. In the film's most hilarious performance by far, she creates strangely uproarious and memorable scenes with ease. There's nothing like seeing a barely-five-foot woman point a Glock at the camera and snarl, "Don't fucking move...
Levine recalled seeing birds and fish amidst the burgeoning shelves of Woolworth or grabbing a quick bite to eat at the sit-down lunch counter, which closed...
...Amidst this maelstrom in New York arrives "L.A. Confidential," a sumptuous bit of film noir set in 1950's Los Angeles. The movie features a cast of crime lords, dope dealers, tabloid photographers, wife-beaters, crooked cops, movie stars, and prostitutes. Navigating this menagerie of colorful filth are three police detectives, Bud White, Jack Vincennes, and Ed Exley. As we watch them attempt to solve a mysterious mass murder, we unexpectedly gain insight into the recent tragedy in Brooklyn...
...into every cabinet, along with a blender and even a funnel. In the basement, snap-shots were tacked on the walls featuring hordes of white-hatted students--presumably the boys--tossing back pitchers with their chums. The stereo system had suffered severe beer-related injuries. In the neglected backyard, amidst scattered beer bottles and broken glass, was a full-sized counter-shaped bar, overturned and rotting on its side. And, in the living room, we found a printed invitation from "Craig, Sean, and Derrick" that read "Come on down too [sic] quench your thirst.... The time has come...