Search Details

Word: sinnuendo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Dirty Linen, a topical headline scandal has caught Stoppard's fancy. A campaign of sinnuendo has been launched in the British press implying that almost all the Members of Parliament are guilty of illicit sexual hanky-panky. A select committee of the House of Commons has been appointed to investigate the charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Unstoppable Stoppard | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...nacreous 22-year-old named Natalie, and thus begins a 16-year-old triangle that develops many more than three angles. The secrets of the bedroom have always been the worst-kept secrets in O'Hara's novels, and the pages of Terrace are crammed with knowing sinnuendo. But O'Hara seems to make a more serious effort in this novel than he did in either A Rage to Live or Ten North Frederick to subordinate sex to plot rather than plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pyramid for a Cold Fish | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Reader Response PUBLISHER EDITED BY RIFLE? With that playful headline, the Los Angeles Mirror-News last week joined other U.S. tabloids in joyful coverage of an event long prophesied, widely awaited and plainly relished: the shooting of Robert Harrison. 52, publisher of Confidential, whose formula of sinnuendo about celebrities has built up the bestselling (circ. 3,674,423) magazine on U.S. newsstands (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reader Response | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

| 1 |