Word: complained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...astonishing. Look at how many people aren't pulling it off. It's one of the things that makes it so difficult now. People complain about movie stars, particularly leading men, where's the mystery? George is working from such a short list. I've been around George for three years and I'm continually impressed by how he does it. He doesn't waste a lot of energy pretending to be somebody else. He doesn't put up a front - there's not multiple Georges...
...returned after years at sea and saw me now, he would probably say the same. I ritualistically avoid public places. I guzzle three cups of coffee a day. My paleness could inspire 16th-century poetry. I always used to think that seniors were being babies or lying when they complained about their theses. “Give me a break,” I would think as I listened to them complain listlessly about how their lives were being consumed by Tocqueville or Moroccan Dance Theatre. “You people are boring freaks. I will never wear a ragged...
Unsurprisingly, having endured the Rutelli campaign, even museums that may have once played fast and loose have tightened their practices. But curators and museum directors complain that cultural-property laws prevent virtually anything from being exported lawfully, guaranteeing a continued black market even if museums don't take part in it. And they're exasperated by demands to return objects that entered their collections many years before the adoption of laws that bar their export. "We've acknowledged that some claims are reasonable," says Michael Brand, director of the Getty Museum. "But if you start claiming everything, it becomes impossible...
...just source nations like Greece that have it in for the museums. So do archaeologists, who complain that simply by providing a commercial market for ancient objects, museums and private collectors encourage looters who vandalize archaeological digs, removing the artifacts from surroundings that hold clues about the culture that made them. To most people, a Mesopotamian cult figure or a Maya stela, before it's anything else, is a work of art. To an archaeologist, it's first a crucial piece of a much larger puzzle, the puzzle that is history itself. And theft breaks the puzzle into pieces that...
...have been in the U.S. for seven years now. How do you like the weather here compared to Australia? CME: I complain about it all winter every winter. I don’t see the point of winter...