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This modernized, seemingly low-budget Comedy of Errors, thanks to the cast, can be best described as enthusiastic. The jarringly bad costumes and set certainly do not impress. The outfits look like dress-up clothes found in the back of a closet. The police officers inexplicably look like Hell's Angel rejects and the hookers look like Barbie dolls. Minimalist crepe-paper palm trees and a funky beaded curtain litter the stage. A God-only-knows-why velvet Elvis painting completes the perfect tackiness of the scene in the Leverett Old Library. But the acting is good enough to compensate...
Such arguments fail to impress the 700,000 Cuban exiles in South Florida, who over the past few weeks have worked themselves into a greater frenzy than usual over Castro's fate. Miami's Spanish radio stations dedicate hours of airtime to speculation that Castro's regime will collapse. Some emigres are even preparing to sell their property and return to their homeland. To Miami Herald columnist Sergio Lopez-Miro, such actions constitute "wishful thinking cum madness." Or call it hope -- the same hope that people like the Fidelista in Santiago have been searching for in the dark. Uva Clavijo...
Look, I'm not trying to be callous. But what do you want? Sympathy? Dream on. I've got just as much work as you do. You want to impress someone, go talk to your friend at Texas A&M. And don't whine to me when he brags to you about the weather there, either...
While composing some madrigals 20 years ago, William Bolcom stumbled onto an odd coincidence: "I discovered that the funeral hymn Abide with Me and the wedding march from Lohengrin fit in perfect Irving Berlin counterpoint -- a funeral-marriage, Love with Death." This is not a discovery that would impress most composers, but Bolcom is not like most composers. So when the Philadelphia Orchestra performed his powerful new Fifth Symphony last week, the second movement featured, along with intimations of both Tannhauser and Tommy Dorsey, that bizarre wedding of Wagner and Abide with...
Such reasoning does not impress cordless users like Tyler, who insists that "a cordless phone is just a high-tech extension phone." Argues one of his lawyers, Randall Wilson: "It is not the intention of those who purchase cordless phones to broadcast to a large number of people. Persons should not be forced to waive their rights in order to participate in a technology-driven society." Many civil libertarians and privacy-law experts agree. Says Harvard University law Professor Alan Dershowitz: "It is preposterous to make our legal rights turn on the physics of how the voice is transmitted...