Word: ripping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wrong answer. (Rip). Take a look. You look more handsome already. People are going to look at you and they’re going to notice a difference. They won’t know exactly what it is, but they’ll notice...
...next scene shows four unarmed Iraqi footsoldiers running into view, passing under a line of barb wire, as explosions rip in the background. They give an after action report to their commander: "We exploded it. We are Mohammed's Second Army. Whatever you order us to do, we'll do it, sir, for the sake of jihad, our country, our religion and our Islam, in one strong hand. We will die for the sake of Saddam Hussein and to bring him back to run this country...
...program could not support enough flights to keep the space station operating. And an orbital space plane would share many of the same limitations as the shuttle. What if a rocket were about to explode and the commander tried to abort at supersonic speed? The force would simply rip the wings off a space plane. And leaving one docked to the station for months at a time, the way Soyuz lifeboats are today, would expose its thermal tiles and wingpanels, essentially the same system that failed on Columbia, to hits from space debris, perhaps dooming another crew on re-entry...
...golden autumn glow of a tungsten movie lamp. There are designers like Reed Krakoff, who trusts that his intuition will enable him to tool leather handbags and accessories in a way that will appeal to millions of consumers. There are rock-'n'-roll stylists who know just how to rip a T shirt to transform a garage-band punk into a pop-culture It girl...
When I returned late this summer to western Japan, where I've been living on and off for 16 years, I felt more than ever like a post-modern Rip Van Winkle. Certain things are constant in life, and never more so than in tradition-loving Japan. Hello Kitty will never speak. The girls on Japanese TV shows, not very different, will be asked only to look pretty and say, "Is that so?" The trains are always on time. And the Hanshin Tigers, beloved baseball team of Japan's brawling, boisterous second city of Osaka, are always very close...