Word: sin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Harvard's Dave Burke, playing in his first game since an injury at Cornell December 12, went to the sin bin for cross-checking six minutes later, he set the stage for Fusco's second shorthanded goal. Phil Falcone opened the gap to three late in the period...
...rooted animosity toward public schools. In their view, the schools have adopted a godless philosophy of "secular humanism" by requiring classroom discussion of such touchy subjects as sex education and feminism. Be cause secular humanism is in conflict with the Bible, as these parents see it, it is a sin for them to send their children to public schools. Says Blanche Reinbolt, who has three children at Bridgeport Baptist Academy: "I've seen what certified public school teachers have done for my kids, and it wasn't good...
Semioticians, who study the significance of signs and symbols, have discussed Casablanca as a myth of sacrifice. One can have fun with that. Consider it this way: America is the Promised Land, the place of safety and redemption. Rick Blaine has been cast out of America, for some original sin that is as obscure as the one that cost Adam and Eve their Eden. Rick flees to Europe, which is the fallen world where Evil (the Nazis, Satan) is loose. He meets and beds the widow of Idealism. Idealism (meaning Victor) is dead, or thought dead, but it rises from...
...collapsed in the housing slump. With unemployment at 10.1% and personal income and business taxes plummeting (the state has no sales tax), legislators will meet in January, their third attempt in a year to devise emergency measures. Possible solutions: a stiff income tax surcharge and new "sin" taxes on cigarettes and liquor, coupled with deep budget cuts...
...deeper reason for the relative decline of slang. Standard English is losing prestige and even legitimacy. Therefore, deviations from the "correct" also lose some of their force. Slang forfeits a little of its renegade quality, its outlaw savor. If slang is no longer a kind of sin, it cannot be as much fun as it once...