Word: pall
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...populist paper, written mostly in the first person, entirely without pretension and utterly without objectivity, by Windsor, who is something of a card. Windsor wears red Camel overalls and chain-chews Tums in between smoking Pall Malls, and the effect of his great heft is stunning: he looks like a denim- wrapped redwood that somebody potted in brogans. What is more, he has a tongue that could not be stilled if you placed it under a brick. "I always wanted me a paper," he was saying the other day, discarding a half-formed opinion that contemporary chickens have no personalities...
...commonly use images of sex to describe its short-lived supercharge. Says the former Oregon M.D.: "It was so intense, so sexual. In fact, it beats sex all to hell." Among dabblers, cocaine can be a powerful, sharp-edged aphrodisiac. But for most overusers, love-making tends finally to pall...
...certain point along the street the traffic snarled, and there in the middle of it stood a solitary man draped in an Italian flag which covered him from his waist to his knees. He stood amidst a throng of fans fenced in by several police cars casting a pall over the scene with their Hashing blue lights...
...petty and manipulative, was no more reprehensible than that of many other student politicians then and now. It is difficult to believe, as Caro does, that Johnson's life was entirely a record of "viciousness and cruelty, . . . all-encompassing personal ambition. . . and aggressiveness." Indeed, Caro seeks to cast a pall even over the noblest incident in Johnson's youth, his student-teaching in the Cotulla barrio, interpreting the future President's success in the job as evidence of his need to create situations in which he was in complete control...
...funereal pall hung over the wood-paneled conference room of the headquarters of the ruling Christian Democratic Party in Bonn. Even Chancellor Helmut Kohl's characteristic good humor had given way to a gloomy frown as he contemplated the party's surprising defeat the previous Sunday in local elections in the city-state of Hamburg. It was the last test of strength before the national elections Kohl plans to hold on March 6 in hopes of winning a mandate for his three-month-old conservative coalition government. Said the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "The result is both...