Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harper, when he appeared in federal court in San Francisco last week, cut an appropriately nondescript figure. He is 49, about 5 ft. 10 in., has thinning brown hair that curls into gray sideburns, and displays a paunch. He is an electrical engineer who does mostly freelance work. Dougherty describes him as the kind of spy who is motivated by a simple desire for "money and adventure...
Mather House: The most nondescript of the House grills, Mather is also the tiniest. Its counter is wedged into the corner of a multi-level recreation center, below the pool table. TV and video games which are spread over the complex...
...seems to be a ringing affirmation of the opera-as-vocalism theory. But the Met gala is more likely a capstone than a portent, for the very nature of opera is being changed by history and technology. The Met-which began life on Oct. 22, 1883, in a nondescript yellow brick building at Broadway and 39th Street in Manhattan, and has evolved into the leading opera company in the U.S. and one of the world's foremost-is being changed too. Consider the forces at work...
...difficulty may best be demonstrated by example. Of the 17 stories, no fewer than nine begin with a variation on the following scene. The narrator, always a 35-ish man with a nondescript name and nondescript job, often between marriages, is some where nondescript, actively pursuing passivity. While the T.V. chatters or the traffic light delays changing, a woman unexpectedly enters. She is physically striking, socially adept, completely confident of her welcome, and with minimal explanation she sweeps the narrator up in a sequence of events beyond his control. Sometimes there is sex, but not often, any moves in that...
...cannot sustain either the weight of seriousness or the burden of a three-hour-long performance. As written, the plot goes out of its way to lead all the characters into vengeance's grasp: secondary scenes--like the one which shows the death of the wife of Antonio, a nondescript lord--are tortuous and hinder the rest of the play...