Search Details

Word: personality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2010-2019
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Pearce scene was there from the beginning. That was actually always designed to be cast by a name. This is not a technique that we invented - Hitchcock is famous for it, in Psycho - but that was always the plan. You kill the famous person and it's very destabilizing. You think the movie is about the first person you see, and then they die, and 10 minutes in, you have the same sense of unpredictability that the other soldiers have. You identify with them, but you're not really sure who's the most valuable to the story, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oscar Week: Hurt Locker Writer Mark Boal | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...without risk for homebuyers either. It requires the homeowner hang onto the new home for eight years before being able to exercise the put option. If the owner sells the house on the open market or loses it in foreclosure before the eight-year waiting period expires, the person is out of luck - the put option becomes worthless. However, homeowners do have the option of opting out of the program in the first six years in exchange for handsome cash bonuses, ranging from 10% of the purchase price in year one to 3% in year six. Still, some analysts feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Guarantee Against Losing Cash on Homes? | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...more inclined to lie or distort if the lights are low than if the room were filled with sunshine. Perhaps the next time you - or your kids - sit down at the computer to chat or text, it's best to raise the blinds and insist that the person on the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Shady Deeds Are More Likely to Happen in the Dark | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...There was a strange person coming out of the elevator, which kind of freaked me out,” he said.  “But then I realized, oh, it’s just a HUPD...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Locked in the Library | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...significantly higher, given that large numbers of the unemployed do not register with the Labor Ministry. Says an Iranian journalist, who asked for anonymity: "They have manipulated the definition of who is jobless so they can keep the figure close to 10%. But now every family has one jobless person in their home." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Iran's Leaders Hiding a Severe Economic Downturn? | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

Previous | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | Next