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...Even the Spartans' nobility is homoneurotic. They rhapsodize about "a beautiful death," and figure in military hagiography somewhere between Wagner's Siegfried and the Third Reich's S.S. (I mean that in a nice way.) "It's an honor to die at you side,"one officer says toward the end to Leonidas, who replies, "It's an honor to have lived at yours." If this movie dialogue were between a man and a woman, I guarantee the audience would spill their popcorn in giggle fits. But the crowd I saw 300 with suffered all this strained seriousness in respectful silence...
Some women get weekly artificial tans and pedicures, revealed faithfully every Friday night by mini-skirts and stilettos. While I am secretly impressed by their die-hard commitment to fashion in the recent below-zero temperatures, I have found a much simpler means of garnishing male attention—abstinence: the utility of which is unimaginable except by those who experience it on a regular basis. In addition to preserving health and happiness, virginity is extremely alluring—even in sweatpants...
...Americans believed Walter Reed helped make good on their IOU. My fellow amputees on Ward 57 knew that if you had to lose a limb, you were in the right place, a citadel of excellence where President Eisenhower and generals from Pershing to MacArthur went to die. Even during this war, the hospital seemed to symbolize the one thing going right for the Army--dramatically improved odds of surviving serious injury and of restoring function among the survivors. Today's soldiers may not be able to stop roadside bombs from blowing off their limbs, but they'll walk...
...edgy line, but it shows how suited comedy is to introducing a group that mass culture has stereotyped, literally, as walking time bombs. Stand-up is warfare by humorous means. Just look at the violent lingo: comedians slay a crowd, or they die. Four years into Iraq, the U.S. may finally be ready to meet a group of incisive Middle Eastern Americans who do anything but bomb. In fact, they kill...
...could literally fall off the American map and nobody would notice. It is a godforsaken backwoods of nothingness that for a few weeks out of the year has fall foliage—get a postcard, it lasts longer. Their state motto may be “live free or die,” but I would advocate for “live free or die of boredom...