Word: mar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stylistic quirks similarly mar otherwise breezy and enjoyable prose. Benfey has a tendency to hammer metaphor into oblivion. A similar tautological impulse marks his usage of apt and striking details. The New England ice shipped to New Orleans for use as refrigeration is mentioned prominently three times in fewer chapters. And phrases like "we will have more to say in coming chapters" are irritatingly common, tantalizing us as Benfey rambles down some other tangential avenue...
...stage in pairs, dropping smiles and curtsies all around, and file down the central aisle. In comparison with the power achieved by the two diminutive female soloists alone, the ensemble's volume is downright puny. Once more, difficulties which could easily have been worked out by additional rehearsing mar an otherwise pleasant sequence in the production...
...Indonesian Finance Minister Mar'ie Muhammad said the bailout would bring "firm and timely" action. "The government firmly believes that these policies and programs will be effective in restoring the health of the Indonesian economy so as to improve the welfare of the people and alleviate poverty," Mar'ie said...
...with a disheartened outlook on our government. It is a sad fact that our two most powerful political parties make money the pivotal point around which they revolve. Today the only way to gain attention from any government official is through large sums of money. AMY RITZERT Corona Del Mar, Calif...
...Harold Bloomfield, author of Hypericum & Depression (Prelude Press; $7.95), this pretty yellow-flowered plant is nature's own antidepressant--almost as potent as the prescription drug Prozac but without Prozac's troubling side effects. St. John's wort may not work for everyone, acknowledges Bloomfield, a psychiatrist in Del Mar, Calif. "But to those for whom it does work, it's like a godsend...