Word: mattering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...going to fit a billion new rising consumers - mostly from India and China - into a biosphere that is increasingly full? If the world can make room for the newcomers, then we should be able to make it through the 21st century. If not, it won't matter what we do in the U.S. - the sheer scale of the rising demand for energy and raw materials in the developing will render our actions moot...
...audience on edge with every twist of the bow. He employed Paganini’s own invention, “ricochet” bowing (where the bow ricochets across the strings to produce swift and un-slurred notes), with the utmost effect, swimming through 20 notes in a matter of a few seconds. Then, violinist and orchestra merged together, fortissimo, to produce an epic finish.Goto performed a surprise encore, wild and improvised. While plucking strings with his left hand, he masterfully maneuvered the bow with his right.After Goto’s solo, the orchestra returned to center stage. Their performance...
...governorship in 1991. Perhaps realizing the difficulties of running to lead a state that has by and large elected white males to higher office, Jindal worked to minimize the significance of his ethnicity on the trail, using variations on the theme of, "the only colors that should matter are red, white and blue...
...about herself in a very British, self-deprecating way. When a voice resonated through the theater from an unseen source, she exclaimed "God...And they say I don't believe in you," alluding to the many people who claim her books are anti-Christian. It was clear that no matter how "bereaved" she felt when she finished writing Deathly Hallows, she loved talking freely about it to so many dedicated fans. After being careful and secretive for so long, she now went above and beyond what anyone had expected...
...this, really, is the book’s serious failing. For no matter how piously Rorty professes his conversion, his mind is still steeped in the twentieth century analytic tradition in which nothing exists besides language, and everything else—God, the self, time, the world—is a diversion for undergraduates scratching their pimples...