Word: blends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...carcasses of water buffalo. Dogs prowl through the rubble, stirring up black clouds of flies, as they try to reach putrid human flesh buried beneath the mud bricks and roof tiles of shattered houses. A few Pakistani police patrol the streets to prevent looting but, otherwise, Kasur is a blend of stomach-turning smells and silence...
...blend of baroque Romanita and Christ-inspired simplicity, of tradition and innovation, the procession symbolized in microcosm what the Second Vatican Council has become. Protestant Theologian Albert Outler, an observer at Vatican II for the World Methodist Council, sums it up as a "Reformation, Roman-style " Unlike Luther's drastic break with the medieval past, it is a reformation in which change is often so subtle that it sometimes does not seem like change at all. It is a reformation in which radical ideas blossom in traditional Latin garb, in which continuity receives as much emphasis as novelty, in which...
...pride and pleasure were evident in Johnson's handling of his press conference. So, too, was the new-found aura of presidential dignity, a blend of artless good humor and consummate professional skill. The impression was heightened by his birthday-week decision to wear plastic-rimmed spectacles, which make him look older, instead of the contact lenses with which he has previously disguised his hyperopia for the benefit of the TV audience. As he gazed at the "people eater," the combination close-up camera and teleprompter that all but obscures the President from his audience, he looked...
...Udall last week for being "obviously laggard" in meeting the crisis. With all its reservoirs on the rocks, it was clearly too late to rush out and build new ones; in any case, there was no prospect of rain to fill them. Instead, the city reacted with a characteristic blend of hoopla, voodoo and Micawberism...
...four in Bsherri, a village perched amid Lebanon's northern mountains, he sowed bits of torn paper in his garden and waited patiently for a harvest of full leaves. The mystic did not find a cult until he moved to the U.S., where he exhibited his drawings-which blend elements of William Blake and Maxfield Parrish-and held a kind of mystical court in his Greenwich Village studio...