Word: devoide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deputy, majority whip Trent Lott. Now, though, the pressure on Dole is rising. Having lost the balanced-budget battle and becoming desperate to show voters what they stand for, Republican lawmakers return to Washington this week, after a three-week break, to find a Senate schedule devoid of anything except votes on funding the District of Columbia and the Whitewater investigation. Last week Dole's staff was scrambling to produce a timetable on such pressing matters as the debt ceiling, welfare reform and spending bills for a fiscal year that is already into its fifth month. Senators are grumbling that...
...Boston area. While many members of the public may be frightened away from attending performances like this one simply because they have little or no knowledge of modern dance, they shouldn't be discouraged. Just because one has trouble understanding something does not mean that said thing is completely devoid of beauty. What the Paula Josa-Jones spectacular lacks in solid interpretation, it makes up for in visual delight and mystical beauty...
...esprit are usually the first words one hears in conjunction with Oscar Wilde's plays, as if anything beyond that strains his talents. Naturally Wilde's frivolity is not devoid of substance, even though his lazy work habits allegedly kept his best work from ever being recorded. Victorian England's Rococo fop was not loathe to entertain a single meaningful thought--only, perhaps, to express it as such...
...University's obligation to keep common rooms and dining halls devoid of non-secular decorations is just as clear as the case for classrooms. All students have equal access to these areas and should not have to confront religious symbolism when using them. The presence of one group's symbols in a junior common room, for example, might discourage another group from having its meetings there. That is not what common rooms...
...peril. But while the murder of Elisa by her mother is appalling, it is hardly unexpected. In the death zones of America's postmodern ghetto, stripped of jobs and human services and sanitation, plagued by AIDS, tuberculosis, pediatric asthma and endemic clinical depression, largely abandoned by American physicians and devoid of the psychiatric services familiar in most middle-class communities, deaths like these are part of a predictable scenario...