Word: rareness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mysterious story where it leads him while hoping against hope it might be resolved. At any rate, Thomas is no passive pawn of his own weak will. He's a smart, resourceful detective, a hip Hercule Poirot. And Hemmings, 24 when the film was made, is perfect as a rare Antonioni alpha male. On screen for every scene, he invests the role with discretion, daring and the look of a fallen seraph...
...Getting things done is a priority for Specter, a moderate Republican willing to deal with Democrats in search of compromises that produce results. But in a Washington increasingly paralyzed by partisanship, his kind of independence is a rare commodity...
...army when it retreated to the island in 1949; curators in Taipei don't dare let the artifacts travel to the mainland for fear that they might not return. (Sportingly, China has loaned objects in the other direction - earlier this year, the National Palace Museum received 12 sets of rare 12th century porcelain from Henan, and gave them big play in a grand reopening exhibition following a long renovation...
...high office or rein in a tendency to use teenage expressions. (Chatting to colleagues while waiting for a helicopter in Afghanistan, he dismisses a Tory policy as "pants.") Yet a change of style might compromise his disarming ability to disguise his intellectual firepower and connect with people, a rare gift shared with his mentor Tony Blair. Appointed Blair's head of policy in 1994 and an author of the election manifesto that helped sweep Labour to power three years later, Miliband is already a Labour eminence, if not yet a gray one. After winning a parliamentary seat...
...rare exception is the semiannual ritual staged by Drobny Global Advisors, a boutique research firm based in Manhattan Beach, Calif., run by two guys named Drobny--Andres and Steven--who are related only by the business they are in. The Drobnys' most recent conference attracted more than 100 macro hedge fund managers--people who bet on megatrends. They descended on the Wynn Las Vegas resort for three days of hard trading talk and, of course, a bit of hard playing...