Word: familiar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Team-building, which some participants regard as re-education's perkier cousin, takes workers out of a familiar environment to coax them to think differently, view one another differently or just let off steam. PIU's version operates on the intriguing premise that intra-office communication improves when employees barrel down a 20-ft. (about 6 m) slide or whack one another with inflatable jousting bats...
Over his 60-year career, he played many roles, including an aged convict in The Shawshank Redemption. To fans, character actor James Whitmore, 87, had a familiar face that he reinvented for each part...
...anything, it feels like Auerbach, whose love of blues rock almost burst from his past albums, simply isn’t excited by the slower paced song. The album soon picks up with “I Want You More,” as Auerbach both moves into more familiar territory and expands his sound in interesting ways. With his guitar growling like a bass and his intense voice snarling coarsely on top of it, Auerbach creates a smoky, back-alley vibe very much like that of a Tom Waits song. The album continues its slow crescendo, building...
...section this past Tuesday, bracing himself for the class’s unfathomably early first test. “But today...today just feels like the Obama administration,” he continued, as abounding hope and endless possibilities were subsumed by have-to’s and familiar realities.His is a common sentiment, not only at post-shopping period Harvard, but everywhere in the country. With the President staging an aggressive, cross-country political capital spending spree to drum up support for his stimulus package (tentatively titled H.R. God, I Hope This Works) the rapture surrounding his anointment...
...really being impressed with anything.” In “The First Person,” Ali Smith’s most recent anthology of short stories, she examines the link between her characters’ past and present, their imagination and reality. Wrapped in the familiar and seemingly plain events of day-to-day goings-on, Smith exposes deep insights into these aspects of the human experience. There are few fantastic or bold statements inside the stories, but their simplicity only intensifies their impact. Through an intimate and engaging examination of her characters, Smith ties the reader...