Word: pleasantly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...feel comfortable or fashionable walking around with Max Donelan's invention strapped to your knee. The bulky 3.5-lb. (1.6 kg) gadget "is not that pleasant," says Arthur Kuo, a biomedical engineer at the University of Michigan, who co-wrote an article on the brace that appeared in Science last month. But Donelan's device pays off in other ways. Using the same principles that allow hybrid cars to recycle energy created in braking, braces worn on both knees can generate 5 watts of electricity by harvesting the energy inherent in a walker's stride. That may not sound like...
...Game Plan In his memoir, Obama recalls a tactic he learned as a black teenager in a white world. "People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves," he writes. "They were more than satisfied; they were relieved - such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time...
...conference Monday, Darling looked like a man positioned to take the heat off Brown. That, and the embarrassment that firing a close ally would cause to the Prime Minister, may be enough to keep Darling at the Treasury for now. Either way, he better hope spring brings a more pleasant outlook...
...mass media (and the often jarring images they convey), and this cannot be understated. How else can we explain our capacity to bear witness to such terrible things without ever taking political action? We seem appallingly able to witness devastating crimes on the television and then go back to pleasant dinner conversation, almost without blinking...
...constitutional court decides to overturn the change, Turkey heads into choppy political waters. Most worrying is the divisiveness this political debate has stirred up on the streets. "There is the beginning of an 'us' and a 'them' at a social level which isn't pleasant," says Berkan. "It's not a problem yet, but I hope it doesn't become...