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...Renaissance, but the fact that so many people still assume they were is proof of the success of their art policies as family propaganda. Like all other dynasties, the Medici in due course fizzled out; one of the last of them was the grotesque Gian Gastone (1671-1737), a mountain of fat and wobbly wigs, who commissioned practically nothing, kept puking on the table at court banquets, stank like a polecat and spent the last eight years of his life in bed, imploring boys (vainly, one hopes) to join him there...
...many large institutions, like the University of Michigan, lack the resources to thoroughly scrutinize a mountain of applications. For these schools, a point system is a legitimate alternative. Michigan’s undergraduate admissions system assigns points to a wide variety of different criteria—grade point average, SAT score, essay, legacy status and race, among others—and then admits its first-year class based on composite score. This policy is substantially the same as Harvard’s; it merely quantifies the factors that Harvard considers. In a point system, applicants still compete directly against...
...Crimson seniors, aided by key contributions from up-and-coming underclassmen off the bench, made sure that the third time was a charm, besting the Mountain Hawks...
...Renaissance, but the fact that so many people still assume they were is proof of the success of their art policies as family propaganda. Like all other dynasties, the Medici in due course fizzled out; one of the last of them was the grotesque Gian Gastone (1671-1737), a mountain of fat and wobbly wigs, who commissioned practically nothing, kept puking on the table at court banquets, stank like a polecat and spent the last eight years of his life in bed, imploring boys (vainly, one hopes) to join him there...
...entire contents of Bubba’s boat from Forrest Gump dumped into a deep-frier) served with remoulade and cocktail dipping sauces as well as french fries and coleslaw, was top-notch. A Cobb salad ($11.50) was tremendous in more ways that one, a fresh and vibrant mountain of different colors, tastes and textures. Herb-crusted salmon, however, was disgustingly oversized, eerily suggesting that the fish had been raised in the warm nuclear waters off Three Mile Island. In addition, the salmon was extremely overcooked and the delicate flavor of the fish was overwhelmed by the dense forest...