Word: quietness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...play speaks for itself, but the area in which Storey has developed most goes unseen by most outsiders. It only takes one conversation with the Crimson defenseman to reveal a quiet, reserved individual who prefers to prove his worth on the ice rather than through words...
...play speaks for itself, but the area in which Storey has developed most goes unseen by most outsiders. It only takes one conversation with the Crimson defenseman to reveal a quiet, reserved individual who prefers to prove his worth on the ice rather than through words...
...Basically, the only place quiet enough to study for me is a library, especially during crunch time," she said...
...world that held its debts. But seven days before Christmas, the U.S. changed course, offering immediate aid for the first time, pressing banks to roll over their loans and urging a new Korean leader to seize the moment and change the way his country does business. Finally, on a quiet Christmas Eve, while most Americans were happily distracted, the latest plan was announced. Treasury officials insist the timing was a coincidence...
Billy Lynch, a lovely, funny man (a hopeless, lifelong drunk), is dead in middle age. His funeral is just over, and his friends and family have gathered at a quiet bar in the Bronx to forgive his ghost and congratulate his widow. So Alice McDermott sets down at the outset of Charming Billy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 280 pages; $22), a rueful shrug of a novel whose strong, shrewd opening pages should be taught in college writing classes...