Search Details

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


Usage:

Last year, the U.S. government accepted the testimony of a single, unidentified teenage Kuwaiti female that Iraqi soldiers were removing babies from their incubators and leaving them in the streets to die. The image became a powerful one in discussions about the war, a sort of mantra for Bush's repeated justifications of the eventual ground assault...

Author: By Barrett C. Hester, | Title: Politics Beats Saving Lives | 3/4/1992 | See Source »

When pressed again, Parker rechanted his mantra, "They called off a goal. Next question...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Icemen Licking Wounds | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...drama -- quick, affectless riffs and crosscuts of action in an ambisexual world of AIDS, serial killers and arrestingly etched violence. Playwright Brad Fraser's theme was the anomie that makes it easier to couple in the dark than to voice one's feelings. His underlying mantra: "Everybody lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...drama -- quick, affectless riffs and crosscuts of action in an ambisexual world of AIDS, serial killers and arrestingly etched violence. Playwright Brad Fraser's theme was the anomie that makes it easier to couple in the dark than to voice one's feelings. His underlying mantra: "Everybody lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991:Theater | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...crucial distinction -- for reel. Memorize this mantra, conspiracy buffs and guardians of public respectability: JFK is only a movie. And, on its own pugnacious terms -- the only terms Oliver Stone would ever accept -- a terrific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver Stone: Who Killed J.F.K.? | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

Previous | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | Next