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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...which is more often than you would think, I no longer want to be seen as being part of that group. It isn?t because of their politics, which I think are misguided; it?s because they come off as snobby and elitest. I think they look down their nose at ordinary Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl: Questions for Bernard Goldberg | 7/14/2005 | See Source »

...disputed that a $2.7 billion accounting fraud took place under Richard Scrushy's nose. But the former HealthSouth chief managed to convince a jury he never smelled a thing. Notebook looks at the five-month trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz: How He Got Off | 7/5/2005 | See Source »

...upon his retirement, in 1995, he spent a lot of time on his five La-Z-Boys with ESPN. Fortuitously, in 1997 a presenter from Ohio--Ralph Borror, who runs abraham-lincoln.net--did a Lincoln event at a mall near Rubin's house. Rubin, who has Lincoln's protuberant nose, his scraggly eyebrows, his height (Rubin is 6 ft. 3 in.; Lincoln was 6 ft. 4 in.) and his beard--grown years ago--was surprised, and a bit envious, that someone over at the mall would pay a man to come down from Ohio to do Lincoln. For years, people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not Abe. Honest | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

Frankly, I'm getting a little tired of Nicole Kidman's nose. First she donned about 5 lbs. of proboscis prosthetics to more closely resemble Virginia Woolf in The Hours. Now she's learned to make it wrinkle and twinkle the way Elizabeth Montgomery did on Bewitched some 40 years ago. It's cute for a while, then wearisome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Witch Is Back | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

...knows what Jesus looked like. Painters and sculptors have tended to give him idealized features. He may have had a big nose or a receding chin. Even when enhanced by an artist, the photograph of the image on a rusty soybean-oil storage tank in Ohio could be taken to represent a hooded hangman, a Ku Klux Klan member or even a Russian woman in a babushka. When things as ridiculous as this make news, we become a silly society. William David Perkins Ann Arbor, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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