Word: crisp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...proficient technically, and far less tense. It is evident that she feels what she is dancing, not merely performing what she has learned. Leon Danielian, the Prince, dances with a great deal of case and sureness. Robert Lindgen, although in the subordinate role of Trepak, deserves praise for his crisp performance...
...Escape to Adventure, Scotsman Maclean's book is likely to repeat its success in the U.S. It belongs to that special category of letters wherein the British, led by the great T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, have excelled through two world wars- the crisp, lively, unimpassioned military-diplomatic memoir. Moreover, Escape to Adventure has a highly topical fascination in that it reflects the destiny of today's would-be lone ranger: try as he may to make his adventurous career a personal affair, he is pretty likely to wind up half lost in a huge crowd, becoming...
...bashful about being pleased with himself. Of one crisp, logical note which he wrote to Japan's Foreign Minister Matsuoka he says: "I was rather pleased with this when I wrote it. and I don't mind the look of it now." And he is never so enmeshed in the making of history as to lose his sense of humor. Because of F.D.R.'s success in getting Moscow to underwrite religious freedom in the United Nations Pact, "I promised Mr. Roosevelt to recommend him for the position of Archbishop of Canterbury if he should lose the next...
Lord Camrose, 70, whose empire also includes 41 periodicals,* keeps a sharp eye on his paper. But for 25 years, Editor Arthur Ernest Watson, a quiet-spoken man who insists on crisp, accurate writing, has made most of the day-to-day journalistic judgments at the outspokenly Tory Telegraph. Not long after Watson moved into the editor's chair, the Telegraph had only 84,000 readers; in 1947, its circulation hit 1,000,000. (Later, in the postwar newsprint shortage, the Telegraph made a voluntary circulation cut of 100,000, has been moving steadily back toward the million mark...
...open 45) was the only easily identifiable imperfection. Many counterfeiters soak their money in coffee and crumple it, to make it look older and its discrepancies harder to detect. Hugo's money looked-and felt-so much like the real thing that he always passed it in new, crisp, unwrinkled bills...