Word: gamut
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Warm Milk. Room One contained four paintings for which the Met had awarded $8,500 in prizes. The awards were all safe as warm milk; granted to men who had won many prizes before, they ran the gamut from watered-down abstractionism to souped-up realism. Basket Bouquet, an impeccable and wholly uninspiring arrangement of lilac smudges by Cape Cod Abstractionist Karl Knaths, took first prize. It looked rather like a flat but tasteful Victorian sampler, translated into the smeary medium of oils. California's Rico Lebrun came in second with Centurion's Horse, a chalky, Picassoid...
...gurgles which seasonably propel new fashion twists across the nation. And milliners were joyfully proving that a whole new set of hats would be necessary. A really modish woman was expected to carry extra chignons with her (cost: $7.50 to $150 each) and to be ready to run the gamut, from Gibson Girl curls to Marie Antoinette birdcage, in one working...
...Communist! Crackpot!" howled his political opponents, and Blandings was on the run. He ran the gamut of local political pitfalls before he was through, and landed in most of the social & economic ones too. At last, weary and harried but doing his best to look like Moses leading his people through the Wilderness, Blandings sold his dream house and brought his family back to a Manhattan apartment. "Just think," his wife sighed happily, "out "of a side bedroom window you can catch a little glimpse of Central Park...
Statistics about the entering class at the Business School this year run the gamut just like a neat business index which covers a long period of time...
...programs offered run the gamut through language, literature, flue arts, music, natural sciences, history, political and social sciences, philosophy, psychology, and mathematics. Students are tested by examinations and marked on the same scale as in college courses...