Word: motioning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with our lives. At the end of the debate, Gore was showered with affection from his kids and Tipper, which can't be conjured up for the cameras. His utter inability to extend that emotion outward leads him to make up stories, which he then tells in slow motion, to seem more real. In the process, he ends up seeming less so. It's not sincerity he lacks, it's the insincerity to fake sincerity in a league with Reagan. It leaves him speaking so remotely that we can't feel a word he's saying...
Shortly after the premiere of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895, the Marquess of Queensbury, rankled by his son's homosexual relationship with Wilde, harassed Wilde in public. Wilde responded by setting in motion a libel suit that would eventually lead to his own conviction for sodomy, then imprisonment and loss of public appreciation of his art. Gross Indecency recreates the trial that shook the creative world, drawing from a number of accounts, including Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas, George Bernard Shaw and Wilde's riotous testimony during the trial itself. Wilde crafts...
Children throw stones. Mobs lynch. Fish gotta swim. It takes grownups to make peace. It is time for grownups to take the stones out of the hands of children, to get the mobs out of the streets, and the idea of a negotiated peace back in motion...
...institute recently responded to the suit with a motion to dismiss, claiming the institute no longer has an interest in the building...
UpStairs' attorney, William I. Cowin, said his clients would likely agree to that motion and then sue Harvard directly...