Word: driftings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...down, "with-it" Pontiff one might think the 20th century requires. Indeed, he has been called by some social critics within his own church a throwback to the frosty Pius XII. His pronouncements, shaped by the rigors of his Eastern Catholicism and his perception of a world in moral drift, have served to defend the eroding frontiers of faith and practice. He is both personable and tough-- a difficult combination to defeat, and, in these soft days, to understand...
...about what's going on out at Court 17, or get dirty looks from ushers when you run behind the court carrying your $3.50 plastic-enclosed chef's salad. You don't get burned by the sun or soaked by the rain. You don't hear the cheers that drift over from Shea Stadium. And there's always a technician waiting to tune out the noise when a jet from LaGuardia thunders...
...have not been as responsive as the music merits. He brings rock to the music hall, overlays it with suggestions of '50s club jazz and well-shaken pop, and comes up with a sound that seems to fall between any two stations on your radio dial. You can drift easily along with an aged-in-wood Price ballad like i Love You Too and nearly not hear the scalding observation "Love only lasts until believers leave us" stashed between choruses like a serpent in the sheets. Price is a jaded romantic with a misfit imagination and a battered social...
...longer ignore it." During a break in the hearing, Haig disclosed that "as of today, I could not go along with SALT II." While expressing firm doubts about the pact, he indicated that he might accept it if its ratification would mark "the turnaround of a perceived period of drift in U.S. leadership" and a commitment for a larger strategic arms budget...
...pecularities. Io, a conglomeration of soft red and white blotches, reminded one scientist of a cheese pizza. Eight volcanoes were photographed in mid-eruption. A frosty covering of ice dominated another of the satellites; still another is criss-crossed by ridges that resemble those caused by continental drift on earth. Eleven worlds have come into focus since Apollo...