Word: mannerize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That the solemnity of the Holocaust and the painful connotations that it still has for so many could be trivialized and disparaged in such a callous manner is almost too much to bear. Worse was my own realization, and no doubt that of many Jews who watched "Schindler's List," that the characters represented in the consoling father, the hysterical little boy, the murdered mother and the harassed young girl very likely met the same fate as did members of my own European family...
Bowles' appointment--and the manner in which it was made--is the clearest ideological statement about Clinton's second term since his election-night promise to govern from "the vital center." Clinton has turned over the most important job in the White House to a pro-business centrist who pushed hard for a balanced budget, advocated cutting a deal with Republicans and was an internal ally of the liberals' pariah, the consultant Dick Morris. If there were any doubts left, they disappeared when liberal-in-chief Harold Ickes read in the papers about how he was being passed over...
...should pursue a plan that New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan has been pushing for several years--a recalculation of the consumer price index so that it no longer triggers a higher-than-necessary cost of living adjustment in Social Security checks and other entitlements. Since 1972, all manner of wages and benefits have been tied to the inflation rate. Yet there's a wide consensus among economists that the CPI overstates the actual rise in the cost of living. The reasons are complicated, but one, called the "substitution effect," is easily grasped. For example, when beef prices rise, people...
...Pink like a peach that you wanted to bite into," recalled an observer. There was the acquired Churchill name and a knack for what Bedell Smith calls Zelig-like appearances among history makers. There was also what friends saw as her "ardent femininity" and detractors called "the manner of a hot housemaid...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I do not believe national forests should be permanently closed to logging, but...we should require that logging be conducted in a sustainable and environmentally responsible manner...