Word: revels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...misanthropic style he has established in 27 years of radio, the last seven on New York City's WFAN. Imus, whose morning potpourri of talk and sharp parody sketches is syndicated in 23 cities, has interviewed Clinton, Bob Dole, Alfonse D'Amato, the lot. The rest of the show revels in bad taste, spitball humor and abolition of the Fairness Doctrine; it's radio freedom with a vengeance. (His show last Wednesday claimed that Gingrich earned his college degree from the "Close Cover Before Striking University of Armpit, Georgia.") "The news isn't sacred to me," Imus gruffs...
...pacan to the misery of battle. Corpses strewn across the fields in a violent fashion are a gruesome testament to the brutal pain before us. Branagh plays up the ambiguity--he lets us recognize the real feelings and the victims of war, while at the same time Henry can revel in his new found glory. It is a moment in the film where the complex relation between dishonor and honor meet upon the film. We fell admiration, pity and horror as we look upon the failings of man, and the failings and triumphs...
...many Harvard women who read the magazines revel in the inconsistency of the ravenously consuming glossy packages of popular culture which they don't respect...
...certainly your patriotic duty to revel in Kubrick's extraordinary film. Don't be surprised if you come out of the Brattle more thoughtful about the nuclear arms race. But you won't by thinking about such trivialities in the theater. Kubrick and his cast will fix Dr. Strangelove's own death grip on you--uncontrollable laughter...
Great expectations bewitch the slum of Cite Soleil. Markets and workshops are springing up as residents revel in their release from fear. People are chipping in pennies to buy paint and new fluorescent lights to spruce up their decrepit neighborhood. "Since he is the President of the people, I'm sure he won't leave us in the street," says Tiol Losa, a carpenter whose home was one of 1,300 leveled last December by soldiers who tore through the neighborhood on a rampage of revenge. "When Aristide comes, we'll be able to eat," says Mona Numa, a mother...