Search Details

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


Usage:

...lackluster performance of Jennifer Christian as Belinda. Many of her lines were inaudible, perhaps because of what sounded like laryngitis, combined with poor diction. Reciting dialogue with little or no emotion, she often acts too immature, pouting when she is confused or upset and picking at her fingernails, a habit that quickly becomes annoying...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Two's Company, Three's a Crowd | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

...been surprising when Dartmouth jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in the first period. B.U. had played relatively cruddy hockey for the past month. It was less surprising when the national champions came back to tie the game, 3-3, in the second. The Terriers had a habit of winning the games they needed...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Green Line Change: UNH Over B.U. | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...Garter, a home worth $30,000, and had $16,000 in cash, $46,000 in Washington checking accounts and $365,000 in a bond account with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Then why did he go on begging? Said his banker: "I think it was a lifelong habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: The Monkey Man | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...HABIT OF BEING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Letters off Flannery O'Connor | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

NATIONAL CONVENTIONS have had a habit of running wild--the idea of a people assembled has historically given them an aura of political legitimacy. A national assembly toppled the ancien regime in France, and it was a national convention to revise the Articles of Confederation that decided 200 years ago to start from scratch instead and create a whole new law for the land...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Invasion of the Budget Snatchers | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

Previous | 469 | 470 | 471 | 472 | 473 | 474 | 475 | 476 | 477 | 478 | 479 | 480 | 481 | 482 | 483 | 484 | 485 | 486 | 487 | 488 | 489 | Next