Search Details

Word: grins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...entire cast (this is the greatest staging challenge in an piece where almost all the characters are present from start to finish). Moreover, he exhibits the same control in his own acting. In a role that invites excess, Saccente is all understatement. He achieves more with a grin or a wink than a lesser actor would with a flurry of gesticulations...

Author: By John D. Shepherd, | Title: Dunster House Scales Puccini | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...like to be sincere but then I'd look like an even bigger idiot," said Hanks with a grin. "Still...not bad for someone who didn't finish Sacramento State...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Hanks Receives Pudding Award | 2/22/1995 | See Source »

...will raise the $250,000 needed to move its transmitter by the end of the summer, the ideal solution would be for Harvard to subsidize the expense now so that its current and future students might sleep in peace. It is simply inexcusable that we should be forced to grin and bear this constant noise. John a. Dooley '96 Andrew M. Popper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Ignores Costs of Problems | 2/21/1995 | See Source »

Bellson's concentration never broke throughout the tune; his vibrant eyes stared constantly at the drums, pausing once or twice to cue in other members of the group and never looking at the audience until the tune's end. Now and then, an almost childish grin passed over Bellson's face as he whipped up a firestorm of percussive sound...

Author: By Young-ho Yoon, | Title: Bellson's Jazz Drums Through the Blue Note | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

...recruit seen crawling on all fours is depicted in another segment tied to a tree while a substance that looks like dirt is being dumped on his head. The tape from Somalia shows a soldier standing in front of a police station at Belet Huen and responding with a grin to questions about the peacekeepers' role in helping starving Somali children. ``There's no one starving here, O.K.?'' the trooper replies. ``This is where 150 people hang out and eat wheat. They never work. They're slobs. And they stink.'' Another soldier calls the U.N. peacekeeping mission ``Operation Snatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACISM IN THE RANKS | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

Previous | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | Next