Word: cloven
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...just doing some kind of Calvinist delayed-gratification guilt-trip principle by going to these things? Why am I still compelled, despite your rational logic? What sort of beast am I? Henry: Beasts of burden. That’s right, draft animals, kosher hunks of meat with cloven hooves and mouthfuls of cud. Together we are herded underground, into dark, crowded bars, to await the slaughter of the opening act, dreaming of DMB popping out and doing a 50-minute jam on “Tripping Billies.”“That One Show?...
...does that moss on your hunchback grow naturally?,” he mimicked with a grin. “Do you need a special shoe for that cloven foot...
What is foot-and-mouth disease? It's a highly contagious viral infection that hits cloven-hoofed animals. Symptoms include fluid-filled blisters that appear in and around the animal's mouth, nose, teats and feet...
...before partisanship became so poisonous that it polluted every institution of government. The man who talked less about what he would do than how he would do it finds that his bet has been called. You promise to be a uniter, not a divider? Here is a broken, cloven polity. You promise to change the tone? We can't bear to listen anymore to the rancor of the past five weeks, or eight years, or 13, if you extend this period of pitiless politics back to the confirmation hearings of Robert Bork...
That's really the problem, isn't it? I call it the "nice guy syndrome," and I'm convinced its what has kept final clubs alive against all odds. The guys in final clubs aren't horned monsters concealing cloven hooves in their wing-tipped shoes. In section, on dates and in general, they're the kind of guys who are quick to share a laugh, help out a friend or hold open the door. Lest this column be relegated to the dusty collection of feminist anti-final club diatribes, I hasten to assure the reading public that some...