Word: brokenness
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...Dawson, now a senior (thank God), is statistically the Ivy League’s best-ever runner, having broken the 35-year-old rushing record in last week’s loss at Penn. His 4,781 career yards include 422 in three games against Yale, not to mention last year’s 10-catch, 85-yard output on the underneath dump-offs that became Harvard’s most dependable source of offense in the improbable second-half comeback...
...freshman out of Western Branch High School in Chesapeake, Va., he stepped into a depleted secondary and was called on to start games with a cast protecting a broken hand. He was then squeezed out of a starter’s role as a sophomore, before shifting around from corner to weak-side safety. Tanner would start again, obviously. But he didn’t make a fuss either...
...scheming against only a fraction of what could be. This year, Berg has battled a torn patella tendon all season—but that’s nothing compared with his effort two years ago. Berg played nearly half of the 2004 campaign with what essentially amounted to a broken leg, despite being the only sophomore starting for that year’s undefeated Ivy League champion defensive line.“It’s one thing to play, but when you see the extremely high athletic level that he plays, he’s one of the more...
...blown away.” What starts out as steely-eyed fatalism turns into helpless desperation, a sentiment that gets echoed later on “Gangsta Bop.” Singing over a laid-back parody of every G-Unit beat, Akon starts out with a broken flow, giving the half line “you die quicker” room to sink in before he quietly says “Paramedics drive back slow to this hospital / You get pronounced dead before the hospital.” Whether they’re flamboyantly immoral or wanting redemption, Akon?...
...Socially inept.” Another agreed, “Studious…oh, yeah, asocial, definitely. I mean, that just comes from studying, and not knowing how to talk to people.” A third: “Yeah, I guess I think of them as having broken English.” In other words, the anti-Peipei Zhang. Asians concentrating in the humanities or participating in unscholarly pursuits have come to expect surprised reactions from white students. Jeremy S. Lin ’10 is a recruited basketball player, a member of the varsity team...