Word: jarringly
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...Often the bottom of the sea is a desert with nothing to show that man has ever sailed over it, but sometimes an encrusted object looks somehow suspicious to Diolé's well-educated eye. Diolé investigates. He finds a chunk of Carrara marble or a graceful jar that was intended to carry syrupy wine to some homesick outpost near the Pillars of Hercules. Or he finds a forgotten concrete jetty built by Roman engineers to protect the harbor of a busy city that is now a fishing village...
...Civil Service has had the effect of freezing a host of Democratic appointees in desirable government jobs. Coming into office after a twenty year famine, the Republicans found themselves faced with a block of civil servants who were, for all practical purposes, irremovable. The FHA probe has served to jar a number of them loose, enabling the Republicans to gain effective control over the agency and pay some pressing patronage debts as well...
...salesman's suitcase containing one gross of "ladies' undies." Fortified with "a few pints," Joyce took the underwear to the red-light district and hurled it into the bed of "the mistress of Sweeney the greengrocer . . . As he did so, his toe struck the night jar or 'chamber' and it rang musically." Gogarty and Joyce woke next morning lying side by side in a potato field, and the poet's first words, says Gogarty, were: "I have the title for my book of poems-Chamber Music...
...Manhattan, radio station WNEW tapped a new and previously ignored audience: parents who have to get up in the wee hours to feed the baby. Called 2 a.m. Feeding, the show begins with brisk, snappy tunes to jar parents and infants awake, concludes with lullabies to put them back to sleep. In between are plugs from seven sponsors, ranging from baby foods to insurance, and baby-care tips supplied by Parents' Magazine...
...started by my agreeing to baby-sit with our younger daughter Barbara, who is four years old. This was a bad mistake. My wife operates our apartment on an open-door policy. That is, she always keeps both doors unlocked, a big jar of candy on the television set, a bag of apples by the refrigerator, ice cream and soda pop in the refrigerator, and a box of cookies on the kitchen table. It's understandable that our place is a favorite hangout for the neighborhood kids. And there are lots of them. Sometimes they come in platoons...