Word: minoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Instead of simply forgiving the minor charge as any businessperson concerned with customer service would have done, the woman I spoke to decided to turn my private complaint into a public spectacle. Looking out over the customers waiting near the counter, she called out to them, "The video was clearly late. Would anyone care to come up here and tell me what my screen says?" She gestured towards the computer monitor before...
...first I thought my romantic woes could be attributed to minor errors in execution. For my first girlfriend, I figured, "What could be more romantic than a candle-light dinner on Valentine's Day?" One I made myself, of course...
...letter words could well have found themselves in trouble with the federal government. It doesn't matter that their e-mail was originally a private message to friends; the fact that it spread so rapidly, unknown to them, could easily have brought the message to the hands of a minor--and the misogynistic Cornellians to a courtroom. Although their message was offensive, it was protected under the First Amendment. As extensive users of electronic communication, Harvard and other college communities are especially affected by this...
...point is that they had the choice. Now, all on-line services will be forced to assume the unreasonable burden of screening the millions of pages of information they carry each day, lest they somehow allow an indecent message to find its way into the hands of a minor...
...audience come a bit too frequently. This interaction works when Robinson-as - Parker dedicates a song to a young woman in the audience, but is less successful when he addresses certain audience members as if they were acquaintances and expects them to improvise their half of the dialogue. These minor excesses are not enough to mar the subtle, touching portrait of Parker painted by Robinson's "Live Bird". Unfortunately, this is just the type of self-indulgence and excess that inflates "Alley Cats" into a cartoonish and unsuccessful mess...