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...turn. Willis is now suing Bruce DiMattia for more than $1 million, claiming his ex-archivist threatened to sell Willis' personal effects and write a tell-all book containing "highly personal, private and confidential information" unless Willis paid him $100,000 and bought him a car. That's rude. And silly. Now the guy will never get promoted to keg tapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 14, 2006 | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...tended by a team of sweet old uncles. They all come over, one by one, to ask how I am and how my father is. This is how I know that they are both conservative and sweet: they have met my mother, but do not want to suggest anything rude by asking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What I Saw on the Road to Damascus | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...tempting to think of clones as perfect carbon copies of the original--down to every hair and quirk of temperament. It turns out, though, that there are various degrees of genetic replication. That may come as a rude shock to people who have paid thousands of dollars to clone a pet cat only to discover that their new kitten looks and behaves nothing like their beloved pet--with a different-color coat of fur, perhaps, or a completely different attitude toward its human hosts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Cloning | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

...point that out not to be rude--although I admit it is kind of rude--but because those are the writers that people--people who think about such things, anyway--think of as the young American novelists. And even by the notoriously elastic standards of the literary world--the only place on earth where you can still be a wunderkind at the age of 30--42 is not especially youthful. Wallace, Franzen, Lethem and Chabon may be great writers, but one thing they are not is young writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's the Voice of this Generation? | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

...ships' ropes to come ashore. Now we get the sound of bombs and artillery fire, before a Winston Churchill figure (irreverently dubbed Mr. Piggy) announces that the war is over. The girl who would become Queen Elizabeth II struts about in a cameo frame, a living portrait. (And a rude one: Her Majesty is played by a man, as we discover when she removes the frame, her wig and most of her clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beatles Come Together | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

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