Word: shaping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Have you ever been in a corporate environment? I have, and this doesn’t resemble that in any way, shape or form,” she explained...
...Rough Gem.” The first two verses employ the metaphor of diamond mining to illustrate the the dogged pursuit of a dream. Aptly named singer Diamond assumes the voice of that fantasy, suggesting that “you can scoop out my brain, shape it into an ear and then tell me your pain.” However, the staccato snare drum and terse eighth-note basslines give the impression that something is awry. The feel is too flawless, too mechanized to match the emotions encapsulated in the lyrics. Only when the rhythm section underpins the legato synthesizer...
...Quad, leaving no roach-infested walk-through unvisited and no synonym for “small” unused, to identify the most atrocious rooms. The few and the proud, all housing sophomores: Lowell M-12: Crimson editor Joy Z. Chen is at a loss to describe the shape of the Polly Pocket-sized common room in her double—“A truncated square? A pentagon, I guess.” The bedroom is even tinier, requiring Chen to climb over her desk to enter. Other highlights include the closet’s “distinctive...
...talk in Winthrop House yesterday. “Are we stopping and arresting more terrorists than we generate?” Kenneth Roth asked, paraphrasing the words of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld. Roth told an audience of around 20 students that this particular question should shape U.S. policy-making about torture and terrorism. He said that if the United States allowed torture in certain circumstances it would generate the need to keep a torture squad in the country which overtime would try to become more active. Roth added that courts, which would make rulings on torture cases, could...
...Sometimes you still need a teacher to tell you a few stories about Thomas Jefferson to get you interested in him, but sometimes you don’t,” Sizer says.She adds that the extra time and openness of a homeschooled setting lets homeschooled students shape their education and explore their own interests.“You’re not going on a school bus. You’re not going out to recess...There’s just more time to do what really might matter,” Sizer says.For Winston, this extra time allowed...