Word: bileful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Drub-a-drub-drub. As a preacher, O'Hara ran heavily to bile. He played on a vast range of peeves-from the present times ("The Age of the Jerk") to a movie producer who had hard words for one of his scripts (he even "bombed out of television"). O'Hara has no use for President Johnson ("An uninspiring, uninspired man, whom no one loathes and no one loves"), or Bobby Kennedy ("There is something pathetic about a man who turns on the charm when he has none"), or the general run of newspapermen ("Only the game...
Cartooning, says Robert Osborn, "is a nice, pleasant, enjoyable profession." Presumably this is because, before the bile can accumulate, Osborn has worked it off in a few devastating slashes of pen on paper. He got the stored-up frustrations and anger of World War II off his chest with a 1946 book War Is No Damn Good!; his 1960 book The Vulgarians took a snickersnee to the mediocrity of mass society...
...column is concocted of bile and bilge. There is no barrier of good taste that he won't breach daily...
...squishy, fatty nature of the deposits in clogged arteries has been recognized for more than 200 years, and the presence of cholesterol (from the Greek for bile solids) in the deposits has been known for more than a century. Presumably the cholesterol is deposited from the blood. Just how or why, no one knows. But high levels of circulating cholesterol go with a high incidence of heart attacks in men 45 to 65; doctors have spent years trying to figure out why the cholesterol piles...
...articles on music and drama tickle the ribs of some devilish and urgent problems, then lapse into ticking off performances and productions. The House articles remain at the architecture-and-Christmas-play stage. The article on the CRIMSON, apparently the in-group bile of some disgruntled CRIMSON editor, ignored the effects of increasing academic competition for student's time on the performance of the paper...