Word: deed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...baseball bat beside her bed and has visions of the dead in her bathtub, Annie is quite the most sensible person around. Ah, the rural South, where nearly every-one - at least in popular fiction - is either ruttin' randy or picturesquely deranged. Annie can't do a good deed without getting whacked around by Donnie, the inbred ingrate. When she complains to a cop about him, the cop offers this blithe appraisal: "He's high-strung." No more so than the script, by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson; it is given to violent outbursts amid its sullen patches...
...care to be counted, or don't bother to punch a hole with any precision, don't really deserve to be counted. Their notion is, You've got to earn that franchise by at least following instructions. The Democrats response is, the thought should be the father to the deed and if we have to read voters's minds, so be it. That's what Democrats mean by "the intent of the people...
...this song than Jones. Almost talking at times, he walks through the first verse and a half as though he's singing a lullaby, and then, with no real build-up, delivers the telling words. There's an almost indiscernible change in tone - not too much - and the deed is done...
...Without going through the electoral gymnastics, the consensus is that either candidate will have tough time winning the election without winning Florida. The last great deed all partisan commentators do on behalf of their party is convincing voters to the west that the election is already over and that, if you live in San Diego, you might as well use the time after work to run to the dry cleaners' instead...
...portending the death of a king or the end of an empire. Humans have long interpreted the wrath of the (literal) heavens as punishment for their earthly transgressions. If our modern, secular selves were to sit up and take notice of ten thousand years of weather interpretation, what evil deed might be to blame...