Word: excepts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hall of mirrors, I sense a bittersweet surplus of irony and hypocrisy. I've continually been reminded of a Wall street Journal Cartoon which appeared only a few years ago. One member of congress walks by the Capitol as he confides to another: "I'm liberal," he says, "except where I'm concerned." This delicious quip has applied exceedingly well to almost all places and times, sometimes to my annoyance and other times to my amusement...
...long has he lived in Lexington? "All my life, except for four years in Houston [during elementary school]...My father is an engineer and my mother...is a computer analyst...
...course, are upset about this,except the administrators who want to randomizehousing assigments and to turn minority studentsinto missionaries for interracial understanding...
...ordinance also bans smoking in workplaces, except in ventilated, isolated rooms where employees cannot have contact with non-smokers...
...subject of history is one which remains generally stable from year to year. The facts rarely change, except to take new events and new historical perspectives into account...