Word: parroted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...threat. "Well, she's always ribbing me, she bullies me but in a friendly way, like I'm her brother." She interrupts him. "Yes, but he also means to say I'm sensitive, understanding, caring," she purrs. Geng Le starts to tick off those attributes like a parrot. Shu Qi laughs, and it appears for all the world like she couldn't be more at peace with herself. But reality is fragile, and even in that moment, you know she's not. There is a line Marilyn Monroe's character Cherie, the wanna-be singer, delivers in Bus Stop...
...years of sweat to the maquiladoras, Valles is one of more than 100,000 Juarez residents who have no running water. She's confident the U.S. will help pony up the funds to turn on her faucets. Watching over a front "lawn" of sand and brush as a caged parrot on her porch creates an illusion of oasis, she insists, "We're all here because the Americans wanted us here...
...showdown is a boon to the media - especially in this economic slowdown ("recession"? "bear market"?) - which need round-the-clock news marathons to spike ratings and readership. But ironically, the media are so far also showing a second, contradictory tendency that works against this interest: their tendency to parrot the language of the administration in power, especially when reporting on international affairs. Lest they appear biased or unpatriotic during wartime, for instance, reporters surrender their understanding of English and let "bombing victims" become "collateral damage"; in the Gulf War, our supposedly combative media meekly submitted their reports for the Pentagon...
...dilemma is more than clear. Rosen's Kristine assumes the submissive role all too well. These characters are more caricatures than the souls Strindberg so desired. The play becomes increasingly farcical as it comes to its close--avoiding laughter when Jean severs the head of Miss Julie's dear parrot is nearly impossible. Kristine's manic obsession with cleanliness and church seems entirely removed from the play's intensity, embellishing her performance with unintended comic relief.But to its credit, though Strindberg's fervor transcends the actor's capabilities at the moment, the focus and preparation by cast and crew...
...While the law of the free market has become incontrovertible in post-Cold War Washington, the intelligence community is still prepared to throw out some observations that don't exactly parrot market orthodoxy. For one thing, they explicitly bemoan the loss of one of the key policy levers of the Cold War era - the targeted projection of U.S. economic power. If it weren't for the Marshall Plan, most of Western Europe would have gone communist at the end of World War II - at the ballot box. Plowing billions of dollars of aid and investment into Europe also created...