Word: darkest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...guilt. Not everyone agrees with these judgments. (One of Updike's virtues is his prolificity; he has produced enough books to fuel arguments of all kinds.) Judith Jones, his editor at Knopf, thinks A Month of Sundays one of his best, precisely because it was written "during the darkest part of Updike's personal journey; it came out of his depressed feelings about the world at the time...
...filled to overflowing with inmates wrenched from their families for years, all overseen by men with searchlights and rifles. The contradiction was ignored for 200 years, partly out of earnestness and hope, but eventually because of a squeamish hypocrisy, a refusal to admit that imprisonment is any society's darkest chore...
...turtle on its back; a farce-until the Belgrano. The lesson of the loss of life on that cruiser was not merely revulsion, but a recognition of the essential nature of the whole transaction. And was there not some hint of malicious fascination in all this too? In its darkest heart, had not much of the world been goading these lines toward each other from the start; praising peace and negotiations, to be sure, but secretly eager to see what happens-even in a comedy-when a shot is fired...
Good triumphed over the darkest forces of evil Saturday afternoon, as the Crimson shelacked the Lampoon, 23-2, in softball action at Soldiers' Field. the big, brawny 'Poonics swatted only air as they chased after Crimed hurler Mark Doctoroff's choice selection of pitches...
...darkest moment came early in the week, when Baker, seeking a few days of well-earned rest on his 13-acre estate in Huntsville, Tenn., took a telephone call from James Baker, the President's Chief of Staff. Behind the scenes, the two Bakers had gently been trying to nudge Reagan into seeing the necessity of compromise. Sounding disappointed and unhappy, Jim Baker reported that the President remained sharply opposed to an alternative budget package that would undermine his massive 1981 tax bill...