Word: finest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sociology department at Berkeley is a very exciting place, in my view the finest in the country, and Berkeley is a beautiful city," Sagan says...
...fully matured songwriter. Produced by his girlfriend and roommate, Yuka Honda of the band Cibo Matto, the album explores a single subject: their love affair. This may sound familiar, yet Into the Sun has a sturdy, radiant optimism all its own. Home and Bathtub, two of the finest songs on the record, are typical: Lennon uses the warm sounds of acoustic guitars and glowing synthesizers to limn scenes of romanticized domesticity. He draws inspiration from the curvaceous Beatle melodies of the late 1960s, but Into the Sun is an eclectic mix that wanders across genres, mutating into bossa nova, jazz...
...credit cards with which they can draw whatever they need from common stores. Every citizen must serve in a kind of workers' army in which all get the same pay. In lieu of financial incentives there is patriotism and "passion for humanity." People marry each other only for the finest moral and physical qualities; the race has been "purified." A minor detail symbolizes the collectivist ideal: when it rains, canopies are lowered over the streets, replacing everyone's individual umbrella...
...Dartmouth game was the culmination of one of the finest careers in Harvard lacrosse. Ferrucci finished third on the school's all-time scoring list and only one goal shy of the Harvard career goal-scoring mark. As captain, he led the Crimson to an 11-3 mark and a second place finish in the Ivy League...
Bringing metaphors of nature back into abstraction (or rather, perhaps, using abstraction to distill natural processes) lay at the core of his finest work. This he shared with Miro, whose sense of nature never deserted him and who scarcely ever painted a pure abstraction. Miro's moons and planets and bean and caca shapes, his fine whiskery black lines, find their sculptural brethren in Calder's spheres and stalks of wire, his trembling disks...