Word: patternings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three committee members considering Skocpol's grievance concluded that sex discrimination influenced the Sociology Department in its decision. However, an ensuing report on the department's affirmative action procedures found no pattern of sex discrimination in its tenure decisions...
However, continuing the pattern established throughout the year, the upper weight class wrestlers overpowered their opponents in the final matches and the team enjoyed the satisfaction of strong performances to settle the score. In the 158-pound class, Sean Haley put the Crimson on top to stay with his second strong performance in a row, a gutsy 7-6 triumph over a strong Doug McDonald...
...almost a century, from 1870 to 1950, most Massachusetts governors used the lieutenant governorship as a stepping stone to the state's top executive post. The pattern has waned in recent years, but Thomas P. O'Neill III, the current number-two-man in the Commonwealth and part of a well-known political clan in these parts, would like to revive the tradition...
...simply messengers in time, bearers of immutable facts: "For better or worse [they] inescapably leave an imprint as they go about their business: asking interesting questions about apparently dull facts, seeing connections between subjects that had not seemed related before, shifting and rearranging evidence until it assumes a coherent pattern. The past is not history; only the raw material...
...welcome the inventive. Both phenomena mirror our self-image as we like it best--well-groomed and creative. Like the beggar watching someone else speed by in a limousine, the clever device prompts an "I could have done that" response. If creativity is the human ability to see pattern in chaos, the cube restores our flagging hope in our own imagination as it distracts us from an untidy world...