Word: sifted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Glen and Carolyn got out of the same cab at work this morning? And Carolyn was wearing the same dress she had on yesterday?" In gossiping about, say, an office adultery, gossipers will weigh and sift and test the morals involved. Gossip is intimate news (perhaps even false news), but it is also a procession of ethical problems. In gossiping, people try to discover their own attitudes toward such behavior-and the reactions of others. It is also a medium of self-disclosure, a way of dramatizing one's own feelings about someone else's behavior...
Possible Opening #1: Defensive Apologies--They'll tell you that art imitates life and that popular art reflects popular life. They'll tell you that we create our own heroes according to our needs. With the doggedness of archaeologists. film scholars sift through the remains on the cutting room floor and try to figure out just how that celluoid reflects...
...either had committed only minor crimes or had been mistakenly detained. The rest he divides evenly between "ordinary criminals" and those who are "almost indescribably dangerous." The challenge, of course, is determining which are which. Associate Attorney General Rudolph Guiliani says that the only way to sift through the cases is to listen to the tape recordings of the initial interviews between the refugees and INS officers made last year-a time-consuming process-and that Shoob is rushing the Government. Shoob claims he is only forcing the sluggish INS to free those for whom the Government cannot make...
...Solomon reads like a song, but at other times, the musical myth diffuses not only the present world of the characters but the plot of the novel as well. The Biblical allegories and the legendsare themselves so radiant that they divert the reader from the much flatter characters who sift through this mystic past. Time becomes a very confusing element with dead characters too closely blended to living ones, adding incoherence to the work...
...some 35 minutes after the Secret Service had learned that Reagan had been shot, the White House finally informed the press of the injury. That delay, and others that followed, contributed to a sense of confusion as television networks, breaking off regular programming, struggled to sift fact from rumor...