Word: overgrown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bolivar passes through corrupting cities and pestilential villages on the way to retirement, his dream of "one nation, free and unified, from Mexico to Cape Horn," collapses as surely as his consumptive lungs. Fever inspires delirious memories of battlefield victories and bedroom intrigues. Ideals, glory, vitality and hope are overgrown by failures...
...FOOLS. Director Louis Malle wanted to make a bright, black comedy of a provincial French family driven to paranoia by the student uprisings of May 1968. Instead, he offers a long weekend with some spoiled overgrown children...
...than ever before, West Germans are spending fortunes to keep up with the Schmidts; money appears to be no object ( in the pursuit of distinctive art or eye-catching design in clothes, cars, houses, even the simplest household objects. A society long praised -- and sometimes derided -- for an overgrown work ethic has turned its restless energies to the cultivation of leisure. Enveloped in superlatives, West Germany has emerged as one of the world's most affluent societies: the nation with the largest trade surplus; the greatest per capita concentration of high- performance automobiles; the best wages for the shortest work...
...obvious, yet Harvard ignores it: outstanding teaching should be recognized as an intellectual art form rather than a practical or vocational skill. The undergraduates at this institution did not overcome rigid admission requirements and astronomical tuition fees to receive the same type of education available at their local overgrown state universities...
...that its facade features 19-ft. statues of Dopey, Sneezy & Co. posing as if they were holding up the roof. The building is "an overbearing presence on surrounding neighborhoods," declared Michael Scandiffio, a board member of a Burbank homeowners group. But some residents think they can tolerate the overgrown dwarfs. "Disney's a good neighbor," says Thomas Murphy, a retired judge. "I say, different strokes for different folks...