Word: belongs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mainly Russian provincial. The characters are an engaging assortment of dreamers and bored intellectuals. The atmospheres are tumid with unreleased passion, and there are ample supplies of tea and sympathy. Unlike the lives and works of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, subjects of other Henri Troyat biographies, Chekhov's belong to the 20th century, an age of fretful spirits and melancholy skepticism. These impulses guide his hundreds of stories, his theatrical masterpieces (The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard) and especially his letters. "You ask me what life is," he wrote his wife shortly before dying of tuberculosis...
...enforcer, he serves at the request and pleasure of a president who condones his behavior. However, the attorney general's latest statement betrays a fundamental lack of respect for the basic traditions of American jurisprudence. While his views may be defensible in law school discussions, they do not belong in the Justice Department. He cannot be impeached from office, but his tenure in the Cabinet must come to an end. Ed Meese should resign from his office...
...Mets--maybe he's used to anemic American League hitters. Wade Boggs? His average against the Mets was even lower than Boston's winning percentage in games where they took big leads in to the ninth. Dwight Evans and Bill Buckner? Their defense in game six proved that they belong in the geriatric ward. Calvin Schiraldi? (I won't even answer that one.) Jim Rice? Did he play? Sure, Hurst and Barrett were good but hey--25 against 2 isn't quite fair...
...organization has had close and unhidden ties for more than 60 years to the South African Communist Party, including pro-S.A.C.P. endorsements from Mandela before his jailing. Observers of the A.N.C. in Lusaka suspect that as many as half the 30 members of its national executive committee may belong to the S.A.C.P...
Both he and fellow-organizer Neil Rohr commented that the founding meeting had included "a lot of new faces"--those of tenants who did not belong to existing organizations...