Word: brightly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...often said, in trying to sort out the rights and wrongs of some public controversy, that the scandal isn't the illegal behavior--the scandal is what's legal. The press understandably tends to concentrate on whether laws were broken. This is a bright line that relieves journalists of the need to make (or, worse, be seen making) moral judgments. But in this world of sinners, the fact that some people choose to cross the line is less interesting and important than the question of where society chooses to draw the line...
Within a few days, Green and Marsden had calculated that Hale-Bopp was incredibly far away and must therefore be unusually bright. At this rate, they determined, it should be absolutely brilliant when it finally arrived in March 1997. Should was the operative word, however. Comets are not especially well-behaved creatures. All too often they show great promise early in their career but turn out--like the infamous Kohoutek in the early 1970s--to be celestial duds...
Someone came up with the less-than-brilliant idea of slapping a '50s-retro veneer on all the singers' clothes and gestures. Rigoletto in hat and coat recalls Willy Loman with a hump; Gilda sports a flaring gray poodle-skirt, a bright red cardigan sweater and ponytail tied with a matching red ribbon. The duke, when he comes a-courting, looks sublimely ridiculous in a red monogrammed vest. Even the courtship scene between the duke and Gilda is straight out of the '50s, reminiscent of that porch swing on a summer night--a worthy tradition...
Though some students have not noticed the improvements ("What new lights?" asked one first-year), others have already begun to appreciate the better-lit paths and entrances and ready access to safety phones. "When I have to walk alone at night, I feel much better having the bright lights all around," said Lisa R. Silverman...
...back as Plato's Republic, democracy is described as a singularly bright concoction, nicknamed the many-colored regime. Many pundits this way and that have noticed that successful democracies often look like marketplaces with loud conversations and lively bargaining. Marketplaces and democracies are not identical, but they do look alike...