Word: shining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...going to argue with this outcome? Back in 1992 Shunta Belle was on the fast track to nowhere, "hanging around thugs and drug dealers and trying to prove myself to them." Then, as a freshman at Provine High School in Jackson, Miss., she signed up for the spit-and-shine, no-nonsense world of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. For the first year, Belle held on to a few of her underachieving civilian comrades. But over the next three years, she picked up new friends, a better attitude and a fresh set of goals to match. "I got serious...
However, an emphasis on accessibility, does not require a compromise on quality. The production has an abundantly talented cast and orchestra, who manage to take those features inherent to the opera—particularly its comic appeal—and make them shine more brightly than they usually...
Mueller, too, damningly equates—or conflates—art and food. He glosses his own work: “19 fluff bunnies. Nineteen cast plaster rabbits covered with Marshmallow Fluff™. Cast-cover-drip-display-shine-sniff-distaste-desire-ad nauseum.” And true to this description, he offers a bevy of 19 frighteningly exaggerated marshmallow bunnies, perched atop cans of paint on a transparent tarpaulin. They are, to be sure, shiny and distasteful, but again this seems to be Mueller’s intent. The bunnies aren’t themselves sculptures?...
Idziak had hoped to excel at the personal side of recruiting (those parts of the process where his grades didn’t come into play). In October, explaining his feeling that he could shine in interviews, he said: “I tend to connect well with people.” But he didn’t get the chance to speak to, much less connect with, a live human at any point in the process. He did receive an e-mail from McKinsey & Company’s Harvard recruiting team that was notable for its declaration that interviewing...
When McAuliffe was moved to a line with Ingram in the NCAA consolation game last year, she summarily set up Ingram for the game-winning goal. It’s nice to see her with a chance to shine like that again...