Search Details

Word: maddering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Madder than mountain oakboughs stormfully wreaked...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Hot in the Smithy Of Irish Poetry | 5/23/1975 | See Source »

...outbursts are calculated. "He's two completely different people on and off the court," says Evert. "The madder he gets, the better he plays. Jimmy can't beat someone he likes. He has to hate the person he's playing." Connors admits that he thrives on antagonism. "I like to have fans against me," he says. "I want to do everything I can to get them against me more. When they're yelling at me, I really get into the match. I guess I'm trying to show them that no matter how much they hate me, they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jimmy Connors: The Hellion of Tennis | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...moments like that, Brooks can be forgiven almost anything. He always furnishes plenty that needs forgiving, but his best scenes are madder, funnier, more inspired than anything being done in movies today, including the rather coddled comedy of Woody Allen. Brooks must also have got tired of people telling him what a maladroit technician he has been, and he has taken some pains to correct that failing here. Young Frankenstein is his best-crafted film so far. It contains uniformly excellent performances, among which Madeline Kahn's delicate but libidinous fiancee ranks high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Monster Mash | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...this fall, the Crimson will be free of those nagging injuries that have plagued the team. "We have no ill effects coming out of the Greater Boston Championships," Harvard mentor Bill McCurdy said yesterday. "There isn't an injury, a bruise, the morale is high, and we're getting madder than hell at Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Oppose Unbeaten Dartmouth | 10/25/1974 | See Source »

...stations open in my community; I keep my house cold and my speed down. But when my relatives tell me there is gas aplenty, even on weekends, and 70-m.p.h. speeders in California, Texas and Florida, my "popular mood" is hardly "sour skepticism." In short, I am madder than hell, and firmly convinced that we in the Northeast are truly being ripped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1974 | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Next