Word: doggishness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Insider,” Russell Crowe resolves to use his inside knowledge to bring down Big Tobacco. But both these films deal with moral issues of a more urgent nature and have heroes who are more engaging and three-dimensional. Kearns’ defining trait is his doggish grip on one idea: that he deserves the credit and the profit for his invention. But while his earnest demeanor and sense of right and wrong are at first endearing, his unyielding desire for justice soon alienates his wife, children, friends, and, eventually, his audience. The performances of the supporting characters...
Dogs love the familiar regardless of its truth or worth and hate the foreign without bothering to understand it. It seems that many of us undergraduates have been consumed by our doggish pursuit of the familiar and blissful ignorance or the foreign...
...world, or acts superior or pushes other people around. I keep telling myself, 'Don't get bigheaded. Be good to the writers. Talk to the kids. Sign autographs. Don't brag. Throw a ball into the stands once in a while.' " Blue is especially careful not to appear "hot-doggish" to his teammates. When a group of airline executives asked him to appear at their banquet, he said, "Invite the rest of the team and I 'll be happy to come." On another occasion, when a TV interviewer complimented him on his poise, he drawled: "Well, I'm not Sidney...
...carried from the wreckage by Stephen-who is responsible in no ordinary legal or moral way, but is unhinged by guilt. Glimpses of his previous history indicate that he has enjoyed a sort of vicarious pleasure in the love affairs of his students and friends. He has had a doggish don's weekend in London with a former mistress, an affair that seems to have done no harm; yet, without apparent cause, his wife falls desperately ill in his absence. In one episode, a parody of war is enacted by rich undergraduates at a great country house; the aristocracy...
Inevitably, he meets a kind-hearted doxy-a bit actress named Barbara Darling, who invites him into her bed and tries, unsuccessfully, to teach him a few rudimentary sexual tricks. Nevertheless, he spends a long, happy weekend with Barbara before losing her to a "doggish window dresser with a great hanging face, pouches, pendulous lip, bum, turn, dewlap...