Word: gracefulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...question of why Hamer's God gene--or any of the others that may eventually be discovered--is distributed so unevenly among us. Why are some of us spiritual virtuosos, while others can't play a note? Isn't it one of the central tenets of religion that grace is available to everybody? At least a few scientists shrug at the question. "Some get religion, and some don't," says Virginia Commonwealth University's Eaves...
...film features a so-so B-list cast with Sarah Michelle Gellar starring as Karen, the non-vampire-slaying, non-mystery-solving exchange student in Toyko, Bill Pullman as Peter, an ill-fated professor and Grace Zabriskie as Emma, an elderly woman who’s either a heavy heroin addict or a precog. Except for Zabriskie reinventing the doped-up old woman role, the rest of the cast disappoints—especially Gellar. Sure, she can wield a wooden stake, seduce her brother and spot Scooby Doo like no one else, but Gellar just can’t handle...
...country with political engagement at an unusual high, “measured” seems not to sell particularly well at the box office. Going Upriver has taken in less than $500,000 since its release two weeks ago; it was out-grossed this weekend by Maria Full of Grace, another independent film entering its thirteenth week at thirty fewer theaters...
...standing on one side of my long futon, about to turn around in frustration and retreat to her bed and the blissful ignorance of sleep. I was standing on the other side, wringing a red sweater in my hands and trying to figure out why we had fallen from grace...
Groundbreaking, perhaps. But in recent years, the small screen has increasingly depicted gay characters in a number of cable and network shows including Will & Grace, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Queer as Folk and The L Word, the first two of which are certifiable hits. Do the nation's gay viewers want to watch a channel entirely devoted to their issues? Graden thinks so. "The gay characters on TV are not authentic representations," he insists. "We deserve to have a place of our own." --By Jeanne McDowell