Search Details

Word: joyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Does this gambit have a prayer? 20th Century Fox last week became the first big studio to unveil a faith-based unit. FoxFaith's first release, right, out Oct. 6, is a western called Love's Abiding Joy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next: Oct. 2, 2006 | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

...reports do not mention Douglass’s million-dollar gift to the school, but his name is emblazoned on a plaque in the lobby of the new 60,000-square-foot research and education building at 190 Avenue in Boston. On the plaque Douglass and his wife, Joy, are listed as one of six benefactors giving $1 million or more to the school. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prof in Fluoride Flap Gave $1M to Harvard | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

Jennings is hip enough to make fun of his freakish triviaphilia but savvy enough to indulge it too--part of the joy of Brainiac is learning that Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day and that Charles Bronson was the only member of both The Magnificent Seven and The Dirty Dozen. There's something touching about the world of trivia. It's a place where minutiae have a paradoxical grandeur and no fact is meaningless. Or as the coach of Carleton's quiz-bowl team puts it, "Everything's going to be worth 10 points someday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obsessive Nerds for $1,000, Alex | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...Augustine of Hippo writes in ¨City of God,¨ another standard of the Gov 1060 syllabus, “The greater the joy, the greater the pain that precedes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government 1060, "The History of Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy" | 9/15/2006 | See Source »

...great joys of owning a bible, assuming you're a person who takes joy in owning a bible-is highlighting it. Another (since not everyone likes to write in the margins) is attaching sticky notes. Obviously this applies to all books, but even college texts, which get worked over heavily, have a shelf-life, so there's only so much annotation you do. This is not true of Bibles, which in many evangelical circles end up looking like Mondrian done in pink and green pastels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bible 2.0: How It Works | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

Previous | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | Next