Word: interruptive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Devotees of filing often interrupt their thought flow to stuff papers in folders, while pack rats just toss papers to the side for later. Procrastination like that can actually pay off. "Putting off undertaking almost any form of neatening or organizing will probably have some advantage," write Abrahamson and Freedman, "because it's much more efficient to organize a large set of things at one shot than it is to try to organize them in pieces as they come along...
...vulgarity (there are fart jokes) with a screen-goddess glamour that can't be faked. "Pedro says I have a dark side," Cruz says, "and I know he does. Maybe that's another thing that connects us. I never feel completely safe next to him." Almodóvar and Cruz interrupt each other constantly, sometimes in Spanish, sometimes in English. "I feel like a couple who are friends, but they could be more," Almodóvar says. "They are in that level where they can go another step. It can go on forever...
...interrupt me, son," Hussein hollered at the witness, claiming the floor for one of his diatribes amid an angry exchange between the two.? The following day three women recounted further stories of horrors overseen by Hussein's men.? By all accounts it was gripping testimony - except of course to Hussein.? When the judge announced that proceedings would continue the next day, Hussein said he was exhausted and told the judge to "go to hell...
...other protesters said that their IDs were confiscated by police. “This is museum private property,” deputy consul Marquez said. “If you come to have a good time here, that is fine. If you try to interrupt the event, we don’t allow that.” But Matthew A. Opitz ’10 said, “I just expected to go in rather solemnly and present our case to people of the Mexican consulate in just a very rational manner...I had no intention of taking over...
...with it. Plus, they can be really funny. And if you find yourself at a party with no one to talk to, just look for me. I’ll be in the corner avoiding people while talking on my cell phone. Don’t be afraid to interrupt me, though. There’s no one on the other...