Word: skeletonic
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...Operas performed in this country tend to be done in languages which neither the singers nor the audience understand, mainly to spare everyone the agony of an evening of insipid plot and badly worded dialogue. This is especially true of the comic opera, where a libretto is mainly a skeleton to drape music around, and the plot is filled with improbabilities acted out by impossible characters...
...recent NOAA ruling, the number of entries, in the NCAA District I Wrestling Tournament today at the IAB is only a skeleton of the previously predicted field. Preliminary bouts are scheduled for 2 p.m. and the championship round starts...
...Christ's own Passion on the cross-which scholars believe took place about A.D. 30, when Jesus was in his mid-30s.*But Israel's director of antiquities, Avraham Biran, and a number of Christian biblical scholars were quick to warn against any attempt to identify the skeleton as that of Jesus. As Dr. Bruce Metzger of the Princeton Theological Seminary pointed out, "We have absolutely no knowledge of Jesus' physical stature." Moreover, the man was younger than Jesus, and the Gospels report that the Roman soldiers, in contrast to their regular practice, did not break...
...Kenneth Haigh), is bent on revenge without a hindering trace of Hamlet's "pale cast of thought" or the Dane's meditative scruples. Vendice comes onstage fondling the skull of his poisoned mistress. He plays pander in the court of the duke who killed her. Assembling the skeleton of his beloved (he calls her "the bony lady"), Vendice gowns and perfumes her, rouges the skull's lips with poison and tricks the duke into kissing...
...many stories, the neat ironies, the tiny vertebrae give way to something more formless, confusion without any supportive skeleton. In "Convalescing," a man traumatized by a car accident tries to understand his wife...