Word: lessened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Parking my car in the lot behind the hotel, I took the long-standing precaution of black people traveling in unfamiliar territory--making reservation from a phone booth directly across the street from the hotel, then dashing across the street to the lobby to lessen the chance of getting the I'm-SO-Sorry-someone-JUST-took-our-last-room-routine...
Strung out on Dr. Spielvogel's couch, Portnoy becomes the first of the lie-down comics. Raised in Newark and now holding the post of Assistant Human Opportunities Commissioner in New York City, he renders his past absurd in an attempt to lessen its painful grip on him. He keens the familiar tale of the strongwilled, overattentive mother and the castrated father. He tells how his mother fondled him during toilet training, how she eroticized the insides of his ears while removing the wax, and how she forced him to eat at knife point. Portnoy is continuingly being floored...
Presumption of Rationality. The Israelis see the Russian proposal as a trap, since any imposed settlement would put out of reach their goal of a peace treaty negotiated directly with the Arabs. In essence, the Israelis contend that their extended borders vastly lessen the danger of war: the Arabs are not in a position to fight, and Israel, with defense in depth, has no need to hit first as it did in 1967. Israel's argument is convincing, except for its presumption of rationality on all sides...
...Mind's Ear. Such explanations, so necessary to the conception of a novel as story, in fact lessen the impact of a as an object of pop art. In good pop art, the content should be so obvious and blatant that accompanying descriptions are unnecessary. There should be no question of thinking, only of feeling, in much the same way that one senses the flickering of television images or campfire flames. In a, what small sensual pleasure might have been offered in allowing the eye and the mind's ear to skid passively over the letters and words...
...Another goal will be to lessen the great hostility that existed between students and Faculty both at the demonstration and right after it," Duggan said...