Search Details

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


Usage:

...likes to toy with his victims but not destroy them. He has a heart. He is the underdog who got a shot at greatness, and so many scrawny geeks can look at him and hope that someday, a genetically mutated dragonfly/wasp/scorpion will bite them. Spidey is the likable dork who got the girl. You see now why Maguire was such the perfect choice...

Author: By Stephanie L. Lim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Along Came a Spider | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

...play the mad inventor, mixing exotic rhythms, jazzy melodies and baffling metaphors into songs that dazzle for their strangeness rather than any feeling they convey. But Costello is at his best when he kicks back and reverts to the witty post-punker he was in 1978, a bespectacled dork with a chip on his shoulder and an uncanny knack for turning out catchy tunes. This album is so much fun, and Costello's best in a long time, because of how often he returns to that clever post-punker mode. Instead of seeming dated, these moments feel right in tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: When I Was Cruel | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...midterm,” he told his “Designing the American City” TF last week. “Psych! Ha ha ha ha!” Sources hint that Jones is getting a D in section and that he’s not a total dork. Psych! He is a dork...

Author: By Gossip Guy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy! | 3/14/2002 | See Source »

...onscreen incarnation, Rushmore’s dork king Jason Schwartzman got to be the president of the Debate Society and the founder of the Bee Keepers Club. In real life, he gets to play drums for the sunny post-grunge band Phantom Planet. The band’s new label, Epic, has dolled up the fivesome in worn denim and messy hair, plopped them on a sidewalk stoop and photographed them in black and white for an album cover worthy of The Strokes. And why not? If that band can make it big with throwbacks to punk?...

Author: By Crimson STAFF Writers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 3/8/2002 | See Source »

...could be sexy, whereas in everyday life people wouldn’t have taken me seriously because I was a big nerd,” she says. “I played the role of a raunchy sex goddess but in real life I was a smelly chemistry dork...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sex, Lies and the Internet | 3/7/2002 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Next