Word: fades
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV IS NOT THE KIND OF statesman who could ever quietly fade away into history. The collapse of the U.S.S.R. may have left the former Soviet President without a job or a country, but he has continued to speak his mind with the same confident authority he had in the past, and he travels abroad now with the honor and respect due a ruling leader. Gorbachev has done nothing to disabuse admirers of the impression that his political career is far from over. During a visit this month to Tokyo, he speculated about a possible comeback, drawing an analogy...
Citing the current violence in Los Angeles,Hall said "There's a heightened tension in theenvironment directed against minorities. Theconditions in this nation are such that thingshave to improve. Something needs to be done now,in a lasting way that won't fade...
...feared. "With the changes that have taken place, we have a stronger impact in whatever we do," he says. "It is not that we are being more assertive, but that even with continuity in our policies and behavior we have more influence. The apprehension felt by other countries will fade away in perhaps 10 or 15 years when people will see that a united Germany is a stabilizing factor in Europe. Meanwhile, we have to live with the criticism...
According to conventional wisdom in the music business, black musicians do rap and soul, whites do rock 'n' roll. So what to make of a group like Follow for Now? Their dreadlocks and fade-style haircuts seem to come straight out of a Yo! MTV Raps video clip. So do the lyrics to songs such as White Hood, their spirited diatribe against skinheads and other white supremacists. But the thrashing guitars and drum licks the five members of the band play on their eponymous debut album leave little doubt that their musical roots reach deep into hard rock...
...Reason exalted humankind but still admitted God as a sort of supreme philosopher-king or chairman of the board who ultimately presided over the glories achieved by reason and science. The humanist 19th century voted him out. It increasingly saw reason and science irreconcilably opposed to religion, which would fade away...