Word: jealously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hollywood is volatile and jealous. But it is loyal to the little man it calls Charlie. Had City Lights been a failure, Hollywood would have been bitterly depressed. But Hollywood was not depressed. Though City Lights is a successful silent challenge to the talkies, its success derives from the little man with the hat and mustache. Critics agree that he, whose posterior would be recognized by more people throughout the world than would recognize any other man's face, will be doing business after talkies have been traded in for television...
Although it places an unfair burden on a child, many parents unwittingly pressure students to carry out their own unfulfilled dreams. The mere fact that their children are attending Harvard may cause parents to feel jealous or want to adopt their children's experiences as their own. Perhaps they just want to visit, genuinely wanting to hear every detail of every day of college life...
...Down!: they give you three movies' worth of plot in a fast 100 minutes or so. His sensuous, delirious new film, Live Flesh, has plenty. Victor is involved with two women, Clara and Elena (the sorcerous Francesca Neri), both of whom are married to jealous policemen. The story (based on a Ruth Rendell novel) begins in 1970 with a prostitute giving birth to Victor on a Madrid bus and, within half an hour, doles out drugs, sex, a triangular gun battle and a paraplegic policeman (Javier Bardem) who plays basketball in the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona...
This explanation satisfied me for some time. After all, the Judeo-Christian God has been rumored to be a jealous God. And who wouldn't be jealous of people who spend their careers pushing back the borders of knowledge and getting paid ridiculously well for it, not to mention that they get to wear jeans and T-shirts to work every day? Not only that, but divine retribution on over-programmed programmers would be a neat way for a deity to get back at Harvard, the institution once devoted to the study of God and now devoted to the study...
...that the stock market was presenting few bargains and that investors should expect dramatically lower returns. Just last fall he bought $2 billion of--gasp!--long-term Treasury bonds, an investment that betrays some concern about stocks. Now he turns around and buys enough silver to make the Hunts jealous. Could it be that Buffett has soured on the stock market...