Word: armchairs
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...True pasta!” he cried, for emphasis. “Wide—and smooth—and long.”* * * * *Frederick had spent the last week reading the work of a famous Russian mystic. He would sit in the library, sunk deep in an armchair, with a book open on his lap. Roxana hovered by his chair or knelt at his feet. Frederick liked absently to stroke her golden hair, and sometimes when the text was especially gripping he would prop his elbow on her convenient, shelf-like bosom.As the Russian mystic described the life...
...something tragic in his chewing and in the little crumbs of bread that dropped from his laboring jaws. Roxanna sensed he was tearing at the bread only so as to avoid tearing at himself.As she entered the study, Frederick was hunched forward, elbows on his knees, in an armchair. A volume of Byron dangled from one hand. He was staring off at nothing in particular.Timidly, Roxanna inquired if anything was the matter.“The Viscountess has vomited on the terrace,” Frederick said.“Alas!” cried Roxanna in virginal distress...
Still, online and elsewhere, the news was met with derision. Why, the armchair analysts wonder, would Microsoft turn to a guy who was a hit as recently as, er, 1998? (And who ruled the airwaves for the decade preceding that?) Is Microsoft indeed trying to harken back to a time when Windows was king, Google was a nonsense word and Apple was on the verge of extinction? And doesn't this show that Microsoft is out of touch with today's culture...
...permit. Give me another year and I'll produce a rap album," he says self-assuredly, adding that the reason rock and rap haven't been officially successful is because Iranians prefer pop music. "Iranians are instinctively drawn to emotionality in music," he says, leaning back in the executive armchair of his slick black-walled record company...
...there you are, sitting in your favorite armchair, smugly clicking the remote for your TiVo, sure that you've outrun those pesky advertisers. But have you? Despite all the ways Americans try to skip over ads and get to the good part, "we live in a world defined by more commercial messages, not fewer," proclaims Walker, the New York Times Magazine Consumed columnist and author of this fascinating new book. What's worse, he argues, most of us are unwitting participants in our own personal Truman Show. "We can talk all we want about being brandproof, but our behavior tells...