Word: sheerly
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...knows exactly who she is and what she wants. And she breezes through every scene, tossing out off-the-cuff, sardonic zingers with a grace one doesn't often see in today's movies. Sedgwick is no abrasive Roseanne Barr type--she is utterly feminine in short skirts and sheer hose, even as she knees Quaid in the groin and announces, "Well I feel better...
STEPHEN HAWKING, proving (once more) that a debilitating motor neuron disease is no match for sheer will, plans to marry again, according to the London Telegraph. His bride will be his erstwhile nurse--once married to the designer of his voice synthesizer. Hawking divorced his first wife in 1991 after 26 years of marriage...
Since the end of the Cold War, international terrorism has shifted from acts of sheer violence to economic warfare, the president of the American International Security Corporation said last night...
...answer to that question lies in whether white representatives can effectively represent Black constituents. To say, as some Blacks do, that whites cannot represent Blacks in Congress is sheer folly. Maybe they don't represent Blacks as well as other Blacks do, but to say that all Blacks share common interests is also flawed. Thus, there is no one Black interest that only a Black legislator can represent...
...good way to assess the great figures of medicine is by how completely they make us forget what we owe them. By that measure, Dr. Jonas E. Salk ranks very high. Partly because of the vaccine he introduced in the mid-1950s, it's hard now to recall the sheer terror that was once connected to the word polio. The incidence of the disease had risen sharply in the early part of this century, and every year brought the threat of another outbreak. Parents were haunted by the stories of children stricken suddenly by the telltale cramps and fever. Public...