Word: appearently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mockery? Well, obviously. But Gene Siskel never let some petty stunt like this affect him. Always the consummate professional, Siskel continued to appear week after week on his show, continued to remain true to his craft. Gene Siskel was a critic--sometimes brutally honest, sometimes overflowing with praise...
...Adam's love interest, Eve is supposed to be a cynical woman disillusioned by love. Unfortunately, the only technique Silverstone has mastered is the "whine" of her Cher days. Whether she's sad, mad or emotionless, she whines (or looks like she wants to whine). In trying to appear cynical, Silverstone has refrained from acting. Her hair, done in child-like ringlets, is out of place for her world-weary character...
...creation of such a confident narrativevoice attests to Golden's diligence and skill as afiction writer. While Golden's name and the words"a novel" appear on the cover of Memoirs ofa Geisha, the novel begins with a translator'snote, convincingly signed by "Jakob Haarhuis,Arnold Rusoff Professor of Japanese History, NewYork University." The story begins from there asthe ever hopeful, bitterly realistic voice ofSayuri takes over, and the reader finds himself sotaken by the enveloping prose, quietly blendingthe "superlative degree of comparison" present inDickens's opening in A Tale of Two Citieswith the seducing party-haze of wealth...
...world needs heroes, certainly. But it also needs teachers, parents, lovers, dreamers--people who will nourish those heroes, and, more importantly, people who will believe in them when they actually appear...
...talking, a man and a woman appear and stop to talk shop loudly no more than 3 ft. from where we are sitting. Though it has to be clear that McDonough and I are in quiet conversation, they bray at each other for several minutes as if we do not exist. To me their behavior is simply a moment of normal human rudeness, though it is a little jarring in a building that is supposed to foster collegial bliss. I suggest to McDonough that civility is something that cannot be designed, and he starts to agree. Then he stops, grows...