Word: overflowingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scourge of humanity." Not quite whining, he painfully records the rise and fall of his temperature, the coughs, the catarrhs, the betrayals in his body, the bats in his soul. "The phantoms of the night," he says, "have tracked me down." Earlier: "The physical illness is only an overflow of the spiritual illness." Kafka is both physically and metaphysically in touch with death, as if some thin, tight wire were strung from here to there, and made lovely, disturbing sounds. It is distressing to monitor his illness for so long. One knows not only that Kafka's death must...
...just that the bucket of dollars held abroad is full to the brim, and any additions cause it to overflow. So long as this trend prevails, no amount of central bank intervention can halt the monetary jitters that are shaking the system...
Each school day about 20 children, ages five to twelve, bound up the steps of an old brownstone in Chicago's rundown Garfield Park area. They settle quietly in a small classroom crowded with battered desks. Maps and vocabulary lists festoon the walls; books overflow the corners. At 9 o'clock sharp, the tall, no-nonsense teacher begins to stride up and down the rows. "What did Socrates say?" she questions. "The uneducated man is like a leaf blown from here to there, believing whatever he is told," chorus the children. "What did Marcus Aurelius tell...
...overflow crowd including several professors from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) attended a meeting yesterday at the National Insitutes of Health (NIH) headquarters to consider relaxing guidelines for recombinant DNA research...
...panel of five Harvard professors and administrators last night discussed the central issues of the Bakke case and its implications before an overflow audience of roughly 450 people in Science Center...