Word: exception
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Except that on Sunday night, the haves had not. Clooney did not win an Academy Award, and neither did the film he was nominated for, the early front runner (and utterly Oscar-worthy) Up in the Air, which even failed to cop its expected prize for Best Adapted Screenplay. Avatar won only three of the nine categories for which it was eligible - the door prizes of Cinematography, Art Direction and Special Effects - and its begetter, James Cameron, supped on the special gall of losing Best Picture and Best Director to The Hurt Locker and his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, respectively...
That might have been because finances were the soccer team’s only responsibility. “We’ve done nothing except for fundraise. We sold T-shirts, I believe, championship T-shirts. Each player is just responsible for coming up with a certain amount of money,” Wideroff says...
...very similar statement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It was followed by a raft of near identical statements by the other Democrats - almost all of them sclerotic committee chairs with far more seniority than debating skill. They produced a Woodstock of heart-tugging anecdotes, but not much else ... except, perhaps, another demonstration of the smug Democratic incompetence that got us to this point. (See the top 10 players in health care reform...
...colleagues weren't fazed. "We are prepared to strike until the government agrees to some changes," he stated. But the drivers found that their real adversary was not the government but an angry populace. La Paz's streets were quiet on the second day of the strike, except for the pedestrians' railing against the "striking drunkards." Radio and TV call-in shows were similarly overwhelmed by enraged citizens. "These drivers are crazy," kiosk vendor Isabel Camacho said as she twirled her finger in circles around her ear. "They need to just be mature and accept their punishments...
...popularity of professional wrestling, but there is, in fact, a key difference between the two. Whereas a great part of the fun of professional wrestling stems from the universally acknowledged truth of its theatricality and phoniness, the comforting truth that none of its wrestlers are ever hurt (except emotionally, when they maligned in the skits and costumes that come after each fight), UFC’s compelling quality is its inescapable authenticity...