Word: blarneyer
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...then let her load the gun against Crosby and Holden. Crosby is the least shrill; that is part of his drunk's cunning. Frank lies in the same melodic, trombonish tone that Crosby had used to project sincerity for a quarter century. But when he's not pushing the blarney, he gives subtle glimpses of the decay that age and alcohol etches in a man. His face is fallen, creased with defeat, his posture hunched and haunted, his demeanor frail. Behind the old Crosby charisma was a self-confidence so pure that he didn't have to push...
Snatch ups the ante and goes international. This time the Cockneys and Afro-Brits are joined by crooks Russian, Hasidic-American and crypto-Irish Gypsy (a funny, blarney-spewing Brad Pitt). The big prize is a diamond the size of Ritchie's narrative ambitions. And the winners? They're the few blokes left alive...
...perhaps a generation removed from head-hunting, but they seemed to me, on the whole, more civilized than those whey-faced, bleary tribesmen back in New York (some of my own savage people, long ago) who were busy honoring their particular heritage by vomiting in the gutters outside the Blarney Stone on Third Avenue. This last weekend, I should have flown back to Papua New Guinea in honor of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade. Instead, I found myself accidentally in New York City. A mistake. The Puerto Rican Day parade in New York is as bad an advertisement...
Ronald Reagan knew how to win a reluctant bride. He told Americans how beautiful they were, how generous and strong and brave, and even if everyone knew that some of this was blarney, it was still lovely to be loved and to try to live up to the image. So it is a little sad and strange to listen to conservative leaders--who still honor Reagan as the greatest modern President--as they file for divorce from the people he cherished so deeply...
Only Ireland can celebrate Maewyn Succat, a.k.a. St. Patty, better than Boston. And besides just being gross, kissing John Harvard's toe doesn't quite carry the cache of kissing the Blarney Stone. Luckily (no pun intended), computer technology can help: start your St. Patrick's Day observance by exploring a next-best computer simulated Blarney-smooching experience at the Top O' the Morning Web site in the St. Patrick's Day Webring. It's hygenic and may bring good luck! http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/2142/ StPat.html. FREE...