Word: shiningly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Occasionally, Finch's old political finesse would shine. At a country barbeque, he would woo redneck throngs by talking about his childhood days working on the farm and toting water out to daddy in a fruit jar. But even Mississippi has gained some sophistication these days, and the old ploy just didn't work any longer...
Surely, replied the illustrious British astronomer and physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, nature would forbid such a reductio ad absurdum as a star so compressed that sit does not shine. But two other astronomers, Mount Wilson Observatory's Fritz Zwicky and Walter Baade, were more intellectually adventurous...
...Though no similar event had been seen in the Milky Way since 1604, they had observed in other galaxies great stellar explosions called supernovas. These occur when massive dying stars, like giant springs, rebound from their calamitous collapse. For days or weeks such exploding stars may shine as brightly as all the galaxy's billions of stars combined. Zwicky and Baade felt sure that the force of such a gravitational collapse and explosion could not only spray material far off into the heavens, but also actually crush the very atoms in the core of a star. Orbiting electrons would...
...could have something to do with missing Mass last week), 'cause the locals turned right around to sweep the New Yorkers and take two of three from the bloated beer-swillers from the Great Midwest. And all you Don Zimmer fans out there had a chance to chuckle and shine up your magnetic baseball caps and write us nasty letters about how maybe we should take lessons from the Amazing Kreskin. Well, you could be right, but don't go out and mortgage the family farm so you can buy World Series tickets, because the Bosox aren't running away...
...swarm around them. This phenomenon is particularly true of figures in the world of entertainment, and even more valid when applied to deceased entertainment figures, blurred or overwhelmed by their constantly receding popularity. Still, some of these figures--particularly the true giants of their fields--manage to shine through their haloes, as it were. By their lives, reputations and mostly by their works, they remain in sharp focus for new generations of admirers...