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...spends almost as much on bombs and bullets as all the others combined. A few months back, Bush asked Congress for a $48 billion increase in U.S. defense spending. The add-on is more than twice as much as the entire defense budget of Germany, not exactly a dwarf among the nations. With the possible exception of Rome, no country has ever commanded such a vast lead over all the others. Nor is that power counterbalanced any longer by a worthy rival such as the Soviet Union. The U.S. is like an XXL-size Gulliver, and even his friends worry...
...show off the telescope's new muscle for scientists but also produce gasp-inspiring photos for the public. The choice: The so-called Tadpole Galaxy. Earth-based telescopes had captured what appeared to be a galaxy some 420 million light years away that had crossed paths with a dense dwarf galaxy, resulting in a long tail of stars and galactic debris spun off by tidal forces. NASA knew Hubble should be able to show individual stars inside the galaxy, quite a feat at such a distance, about 200 times that of the nearest galaxy to our own Milky...
...Joint Strike Fighter. Not only is a missile strike from a rogue state or an attack from a foreign military highly unlikely, but the devastation caused by an attack on a nuclear facility—or, even worse, if terrorists were able to steal fissile material—could dwarf the effect of any conventional bomb. Yet a completed missile defense project may cost hundreds of billions before its completion, and the Department of Defense will spend over $7.8 billion just this year. Though securing nuclear facilities requires only a fraction of this money, it has still not been fully...
...seems to be blessed with the ability create things mostly for his own turn-ons that also work as art. Though a bit undeveloped in this series, he has always had a way with women characters in particular, somehow indulging in every imaginable fetishist "type" (included here: the voluptuous dwarf, the anorexic yet unaturally buxom stripper, and the usual amazons) while managing to give them some of the most credible and sympathetic voices in any medium. The absurd violence likewise plays with the old scenarios. Issue three begins with a daring horseback rescue that quickly ends with an explosion, raining...
...Perhaps best was the gut-busting Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson taped intro to the Costume Design award, with Stiller, dressed as a dwarf from The Lord of the Rings, radiating his patented passive-aggressive anger ("I look like a freakin' ZZ Top troll boy"). It was such a good piece, in fact, that it could have come from the MTV Movie Awards, which the Academy could still learn a thing or a hundred from...