Word: forehead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dhahir sits in his freshly repainted office, separated from the masses and the honking traffic below by layers of concertina wire and sand-filled barriers. The 42-year-old police colonel, his black hair specked with silver and combed neatly across his forehead, oversees a rough part of Baghdad known as "thieves market." A few blocks away, well-armed thugs do a brisk trade in guns, drugs and women, and vendetta killings are becoming commonplace. The police do their best to contain the rising power of criminal gangs--and are making some progress--but all too often the cops find...
...torments to his, others concluded, it might lend sanctity to the senseless. Little wonder that one mystic reported that Christ had told her, "I was beaten on the body 6,666 times; beaten on the head 110 times; pricks of thorns in the head, 110 ... mortal thorns in the forehead, 3 ... the drops of blood that I lost were...
...accurately described the "Godspell" Christ figure as "a '70s pop rainbow suspendery kind of Jesus." Brown-eyed, frizzy-haired Victor Garber, who 30 years later has a career on Broadway ("Art") and TV ("Alias"), stresses Jesus' gentility in sensitive-clown makeup: teardrop eyeliner and a sweet heart on his forehead. The rest of the young cast follows suit, miming up a storm, sipping imaginary sacramental wine from invisible chalices. Drinks for the Last Supper are served in paper cups. Was Jim Jones watching...
...officer who responded to the scene said that Pring-Wilson had an obvious bruise on his forehead and that he appeared to be intoxicated, according to the motion...
...pattern has not been missed: labeling the liberals’ case against President Bush, editorial writers and commentators from across the punditocracy have stamped the epithet “populist” across the forehead of nearly every Democratic candidate. In the Washington Post last month, David S. Broder called former Vermont Governor Howard Dean’s fundraising appeals “internet-based populism.” In The New York Times the same day, Robin Toner mused about whether Americans can accept a “populist uprising” at a time of economic recovery...