Word: ascendent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Join now in the glad moment. Relax. At the midnight hour while bats circle the confectionery temples of Palenque and Mother Moon gladly lends her bluest light, ascend with Merilee and Sam the steepriser steps of the Temple of the Prince...
...this week should have even greater impact. Plans call for the two models, wearing their unisex clothing, to mingle with 200 formally attired, champagne-sipping guests on the spacious first floor of the Butler mansion. After taking off their tank tops, Broom and Holt will linger awhile and then ascend a circular staircase to strip to the buff in full view of the onlookers. "It's a shock thing," Gernreich admits...
...coming fast, and it would be nice to have Yale's long unbeaten streak of Ivy games end, but Yale, playing in the Bowl, looks like the winner, 28-17. Word is that the halftime show is going to be a thriller, too. Bri Dowling is scheduled to ascend to Heaven while Johnny Tillotson sings a medley of "Poetry in Motion" and "Earth Angel...
...last week, when Prince Juan Carlos Victor Maria de Borbón y Borbón was chosen to ascend the long-vacant Spanish throne-some day-there was no dancing in the streets of Madrid or other outbursts of public joy. The reasons for such restraint are largely beyond Juan Carlos' control and relate to Spain's strained domestic political scene, but it is nonetheless true that the Prince so far has failed to either excite a feeling of loyalty among his future subjects or emerge as a convincing, sympathetic human being. Asked by reporters what qualities...
Human and Angelic. "So up we go. The tower trembles alarmingly as we ascend, and the faces of the tower crew below us look dime-sized. Now the ceiling seems to tent us in, and there is a vast rush of images, a crystalline turbulence. The clarity of colors is the first surprise. From the floor, the figures overhead look like painted sculpture. Up here you find transparency, veils of atmosphere, light-filled shadows. Perhaps Michelangelo felt that opaque colors would be out of place in a world of legend, myth and mystery...