Word: blastingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...detailed local color and technical arcana that the thriller genre demands. Ignatius can convey the terror even an experienced spy feels when approaching isolated border crossings and potentially murderous guards. He can explain how to construct a remote-control detonator and how to gauge the damage of a terrorist blast by sight alone: "White smoke meant a very large explosion. A bomb that detonated so powerfully and quickly that it sucked the oxygen out of the air, leaving a white plume of smoke." The author also occasionally strains a little too hard to keep pulses racing. Hearts pound in chests...
...officials pondered their dilemma, the battered Sea Isle City lay off the Kuwaiti coast. The missile blast gouged a jagged hole in the starboard side of the empty tanker and left the wheelhouse blood-splattered and strewn with debris. American Captain John Hunt was blinded by flying glass and is recovering in a Kuwaiti hospital after surgery. Several other victims of the attack are hospitalized, but all are expected to survive...
...blast of gloom sends the stock market plunging, war heats up in the Persian Gulf, and Nancy Reagan enters the hospital for cancer surgery. But in Texas a dedicated crew rescues a little girl from her ordeal at the bottom of a well. -- On the Republican right, a muted movement watches Bush and Dole on the rise...
Despite the hazards the artist is not discouraged. He says he "is having a blast," anonymously bringing art to a city. A private person, Tom is less than eager to be recognized. He says its important to stay detached even as he seeks to place his art and thus himself before the public...
...gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood...