Word: kindered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...friend, "Yet really we had the same life, the generic one/ our generation offered." In much the same way, these tales of the 1980s tend to merge into one generic portrait of vanity, ego and greed. Historians may come to see the '80s in a kinder and more diverse light, but the image of the decade in these books is unquestionably the prevailing one today...
...reason, quite simply, is that Peggy Noonan did not write it. For if words are the weapons of politics, then Noonan -- whether nervously chain-smoking at her computer in Ronald Reagan's White House or minding her baby son at home as she created the "kinder, gentler" persona for George Bush -- commanded a battalion...
...George Bush what someone once said of Winston Churchill, that "he mobilized the English language and sent it into battle." But Bush can surprise, especially when he remembers that nothing makes Americans feel better than some good old-fashioned Democratic sweet talk. Last year it was a kinder, gentler Inaugural, last week a State of the Union address that could have been delivered by Lyndon Johnson...
...physicists and engineers, it seems sad to drive so many students away from fields in which they have expressed an interest. While a tutorial program may not solve all the problems first-year students encounter in introductory physics, it would go a long way towards making the department a kinder, gentler place...
...short list for a new building at Yale," says Eisenman, the contextualist-come-lately. The location, he says nonchalantly, as if he had not spent the past 20 years ranting against any hint of historical style, "seems to call for a neo-Georgian classical box or something." Kinder and gentler, indeed...