Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conductor alike seemed to rejoice in the relaxed, waltz-like pace of the gargantuan Scherzo. The introduction of bells and intricate spiccato/pizzicato sections augmented the diversity of texture in the third movement, whose screaming finale prompted Gatti to take a handkerchief from his packet and wipe his cheek before proceeding into the final two movements of Mahler's fifth symphony...
...tunnel." The princess tried to speak and was once heard to murmur, "My God." But no direct witness reports her saying anything coherent. The first two policemen on the scene found her semiconscious. One of them tried to keep her awake by "talking to her and tapping on her cheek...
Clad in lab coats, HMO Black's founders offered tongue-in-cheek testimonials to HMO Black...
Tears were the first bond. They glistened on Judith Jamison's face as she stood beside an elderly woman veteran of South Africa's liberation struggle. They trickled down the cheek of a younger South African woman who knelt beside the flower-strewn memorial to her brother, felled by a police bullet on June 16, 1976, the first day of the Soweto uprising. After lighting candles, the kneeling woman and three other family members softly intoned their new national anthem, God Bless Africa. "That's when I lost it," Jamison said later. "I identified with them as black people...
...favor of the slogan "Image is nothing. Thirst is everything. Obey your thirst." Self-mockery is a mark of Xer sophistication, and thus a staple of any show--from David Letterman to Conan O'Brien--seeking twentysomething viewers. Might, a San Francisco-based Gen X magazine, features tongue-in-cheek tables of contents, as in "Pages 157-72: Unflattering Gossip About Owners of Companies That Won't Advertise with Us" or "Pages 161-168: Some Stuff We Didn't Fact Check...