Word: meant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Alice that "glory" means "a nice knock-down argument." Pretending that blasphemy is denying one's dreams is as logical as claiming that extortion is a weak cup of tea or that homeopathy is picking up the telephone with one's foot. But of course what the author really meant is that desiring passionately is an infinitely more important thing that being mindful of religion--that passionate desire overrides everything else. It's an idea as old as the world's first adolescent...
Harvard demands that all tutoring done for money be done through the apparatus of the Bureau of Study Counsel, so that we as equals in the pursuit of knowledge do not exploit our fellow students. These restrictions are meant to protect the intellectual pursuits that Harvard at its best represents...
...gold was the cure for all her family members' illnesses! (Too bad it wasn't a cure for that dress that didn't fit. Her publicist later chastised the media for calling her on it. "You think she didn't know how that dress fit?" he retorted. "She meant it to fit like that.") Gwyneth is supposedly our generation's Audrey Hepburn. God help...
...have to ask for something more than once, it wasn't meant in the first place...
...Twyker directs Run Lola Run like a video game, programming Lola to be a lean mean running machine to hurdles an obstacle a minute. A critic called it the first "postmodern movie" of our time, but I think that's seeing it for more than it is. It's meant to be an adrenaline rush (like Pokemon!)--a sensory rather than emotional experience. And think about this--when are you gonna see an American movie where a drug dealer and his girlfriend are unconditional heroes--saints who deserve nothing but the best...