Word: points
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Raising money for professorships and libraries is often a difficult task. From a benefactor's point of view, these may not be the most glamorous of donations. Furthermore, donors may not always understand why increasing faculty size is so important...
...that point, Donovan grabbed his credit card and his roommate's wallet out of the robber's hand and backed the robber into a bedroom...
...that point, the burglar lunged for the door, and a scuffle ensued...
...scenario becoming all too familiar to the floor's first-year residents, a burglar entered two unlocked suites at some point during the night and stole several wallets, leaving behind more valuable items, such as laptop computers...
Purdy, 24, writes earnestly in For Common Things against a culture he sees as saturated with irony. "The point of irony," he writes in the opening pages, "is a quiet refusal to believe in the depth of relationships, the sincerity of motivation, or the truth of speech--especially earnest speech." For Purdy, our culture is entrenched in a Seinfeldian shtick, an "endless joke...not exactly at anyone's expense, but rather at the expense of the idea that anyone might take the whole affair seriously...