Search Details

Word: devoide (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...course, Jefferson's legacy lies with his famous document of principle--the Declaration of Independence. In a country so devoid of confidence in its leaders, that sort of idealism is guarded carefully...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, | Title: Tick-Tock, Flip-Flop | 10/3/1992 | See Source »

...opening of "Black Sunshine" is emblematic of the choppy, bland rhymes which populate the album: "This old box is all I own/I call it home/ I live life like an animal/ It's not understandable." There is nothing original about the lyrics, and the vocals are devoid of style...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Oy Oy Oy | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

Matisse's best-known remark about his art didn't help much either: he wanted "an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter," that would soothe the mind of "every mental worker . . . something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue." He never made a politically didactic painting in his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Matisse The Color of Genius | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

...Clinton has reverted to type. He massages and fillets the facts, leaving behind pronouncements that are technically accurate but devoid of the inner truth. His explanations about avoiding Vietnam do not hang together. From the beginning it has been obvious that if Clinton truly thought it unethical for him to remain home after four of his friends died in Vietnam, he could have exposed himself to the same risk at any moment simply by enlisting in the military. Even now, a last "last word" and a forthright mea culpa would help immeasurably. In seeking to understand his candidate's self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest:The Lies of George and Bill | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...vacation-seeker would want to spend time in the barren, broken swaths of logged countryside. The loggers have turned many beautiful areas of the Pacific Northwest into ugly, bare brown-spots--almost totally devoid of life...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: The Killing Fields | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

Previous | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | Next