Word: backgrounded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that goes wrong on the disc. The staleness of the song’s lyrics perfectly complements the deja-entendu feeling one gets upon listening to it. In a brief, speak-singing interlude, she spells out the words that make up her lyrics while squeaky girls giggle in the background. Lavigne sounds far too much like another pop star on the track, without matching her ingenuity: B-A-N-A-N-A-S, anyone? In short, “The Best Damn Thing” makes you want to say: “Hey, Avril! Why?...
...Killed),” opens with a lo-fi recording of a woman’s voice advocating a road trip to Cassadaga, Fla., and other locations of spirituality and energy where one might find “vortexes” and eventual life change. In the background, an orchestra grates out dissonant tones that gradually climax and make way for Oberst’s lyrics. He delivers a tired outline of the modern condition: “Future Markets, Holy Wars…the freedom-fighting simulcast…the polar icecaps centrifuge…First snowman built...
...reportedly been tied to 16,000 weapons sold there in the last eight years. Cho's purchases had been legal; he had been under a court-ordered "temporary detainment order," a psychiatric evaluation, which is not the same as an involuntary commitment. Thus nothing showed up on the instant background check at the store. He just presented three forms of ID, including a Virginia driver's license, and paid $571 for the gun and a box of 50 9-mm rounds. Employees viewed Cho as "about as clean-cut a kid as you'd ever want to see," says proprietor...
...like it are not only out of place, but completely unnecessary. Still, Norton presents a solid history of the creation of Hezbollah, the context in which it developed, its current place in the Middle East and the world, and his predictions for its future. For those looking for a background of this prominent group, “Hezbollah: A Short History” provides a thorough yet terrifically brief 200-page overview. If only more classroom text writers would take a page out of Norton’s book...
...would be illegal for someone who had been found incompetent or mentally incapacitated to buy a gun in Virginia, but the magistrate's order apparently did not constitute a formal legal ruling on Cho's mental state. For that reason, his name was not entered into the state's background-check database; authorities said today his gun purchases were fully legal...