Word: appealing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...South African premiership seemed inevitable, some suggested that his ascension to high political office would force him to tone down his rhetoric as he became better acquainted with the subtleties of realpolitik. According to this view, Mandela's revolutionary comments were borne out of his need to appeal to constituents who would have been disappointed not to hear any mots de guerre from the defiant leader that legend and 27 years had immortalized...
...reaction other than shock." The verdict brings a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole for the British teenager until 15 years have been served. Woodward's defense will petition Judge Hiller Zobel to set aside the verdict this week and, if that fails, will appeal the case...
...pasty, effete and live in the past, but the great thing about the English is that they seem smart even when acting stupid. ROWAN ATKINSON's inane mime character, Mr. Bean, washes up on American shores Friday in Bean. Atkinson realizes that Bean's immature antics may not appeal to everyone. "Most of my friends don't have time for Mr. Bean," he says. "For those who prefer their humor more verbal, more literary, or indeed harder or ruder, Bean is not their thing...
Updating Joy may prove monstrously profitable, as well as an idea whose time has come. Actually doing so proved monstrously tricky. For aside from its encyclopedic thoroughness, much of the cookbook's perennial appeal has stemmed from the distinctive, comforting, we're-all-in-this-together voices of two women: Irma Rombauer, who wrote and self-published the original Joy in 1931, and her daughter Marion Rombauer Becker, who first served as her mother's helper and later assumed full custodianship of the ongoing endeavor. Dying of cancer, Marion concluded her acknowledgments to the 1975 edition in a valedictory manner...
...Back in Britain, the Free Louise campaign was jubilant. But the tiny village of Elton, Cheshire soon learned Louise would not be on the next flight home. The court said it would hold on to Louise's passport, pending an appeal by prosecutors against the shock turnaround...