Word: archaic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sociable specimen of the yuppie breed, you spend many of your Saturdays and much of your spare income suiting yourself up for friends' % weddings. Charles (Hugh Grant), a 32-year-old Londoner, has made a second career out of being a supporting player in these archaic rituals. For him it's like attending a rugby match without having to get muddy. Until, that is, he meets Carrie (Andie MacDowell), a pretty American. The movie being a nostalgia piece -- remember the '80s? -- the two have sex, then love, then a marriage. But not to each other. That's why this...
...reservations had to do with what she perceived as the "archaic" nature of the event...
...rather archaic ring," says Gottschalk, adding that he is not familiar with the particular study. "They didn't know a lot about radiation. There are still some things we don't know but we know a lot more...
...problems with recycling old shows is the recycling of old ideas and attitudes that come with them. Archaic and insulting stereotypes of women are especially disturbing in a show like Grease, with its built-in audience of screaming 12 year-old girls...
...environmental division, bad-pun subdivision: last month Sierra Club members in Jackson, Wyoming, operating as the Not Yours, Mine, Mining Co., staked a claim to U.S. Forest Service land, now leased to the Snow King Resort and used for a ski lift. The point was to demonstrate that under archaic U.S. law, such claiming of the right to lease public land for mining is entirely legal. At press time, plans for actual mining were not firm...