Word: impromptu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...overly worried about the speech to Congress. Even some of his advisers concede that his performance on Sept. 11 left something to be desired. But his aides say Bush turned a corner on the Friday after the attacks, with a speech at the Washington National Cathedral, an impromptu rallying cry amid the rubble at Ground Zero and--in private--two hours comforting, and weeping with, the families of those who have lost loved ones. Andrew Card, his chief of staff, says the President has "made sure that there is a balance to his effort--and that includes taking care...
Lewis was asked to speak at Morning Chapel months ago, though another impromptu speaker last week was President Laurence H. Summers...
Happily, the audience was quite willing to partake in the outrageous action, doing an impromptu conga and even fencing with foam noodles...
...Thomas as by his statesmanship, insist on being briefed by no one else...Meeting other Western Hemisphere foreign ministers in Mexico City recently, the Secretary of State was so sought-after by his Latin American counterparts that they even pursued him to the men's room to carry out impromptu discussions...
...Keenan says he wanted to capture "the essence of the Tua-reg people." In between visits to the rock art sites, with anecdotes about jealous volcanic piles and impromptu gazelle hunts, terrifying sandstorms and quiet nights under the Sahara sky, he somehow does. Pity then that he subjects his work to treatment strangely similar to the desecration he decries. For in his book, there is beauty beneath, a vivid portrait of his embattled Sahara Man, the Tuareg. But to see it, you have to look past the marks of an outsider, the signature of one who likes...