Word: braved
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rest of the time, the film stifles any impulse to believe in its buoyancy by being sadly earthbound. Peter and the boys may fly through the bedroom window; Finding Neverland takes a big, brave leap and lands splat on the sidewalk. By Richard Corliss
...excess deaths. That's one reason why Roberts and his research colleagues at Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad and Columbia University in New York City want an independent body such as the World Health Organization to examine their findings. "This is a very interesting and a very brave study," says John Sloboda, a psychology professor and co-founder of Iraq Body Count, a British online database. While his group counts "actual Iraqis" killed, based on media reports - and gives a figure of about 15,000 - Sloboda calls the Johns Hopkins study "not totally inconceivable...
...thin as mica flakes, especially the men--are very affluent, and it's set on Wisteria Lane, a picket-fence never-never land. We don't see women juggling home and career; there aren't any nannies or day care in sight. All this allows the show to be "brave" by indicting a cliché of suburban life without really depicting how any of its viewers live...
...appears pretty inconceivable that any sane rower would choose to make the jump from the heavyweight division down to the lightweight division, but there are a brave few who decide to make the commitment and take the risk...
...kill other animals only if a creature cannot find food in any other way. But very few hunters today kill wildlife to keep their children from starvation. Most hunters kill for pleasure. The hunting of any wild animal should be banned once and for all. But no politician is brave enough to favor such a position - hunters vote. Vassilis Banavas Thessaloniki, Greece You noted that protesters against the hunting ban have pointed out that foxes will still have to be killed as agricultural pests. That is not only appalling, but also downright absurd. Foxes deserve the same protection...