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...skeptic accustomed to conventional medicine quickly misplaces all familiar landmarks when trying to assess the possible medical value of such treatments. Surely the notion that your entire body can be treated via the feet stretches credence to the breaking point -- especially when you consider that chiropractors say the same thing about the spine, while iridologists (yes, another specialty) say the eyes are the windows to your inner health. Why, there are even acupuncturists who claim you can treat virtually any spot in the body by poking needles at various points around...
...workplace seduction straight out of Anita Hill's nightmares, but he's really a sweet guy who can make a cactus bloom. Pacino plays Johnny as if he is New York: pushy, forlorn, indomitable. And Pfeiffer, laying claim to the title of Hollywood's most accomplished stunner, is every skeptic who tried vainly to fight off the city's spell...
Ever the salesman, Limbaugh has created brand names for political groups. Do-gooder liberals are "compassion fascists," and "commie libs" are pretty much anyone to the left of David Duke. San Francisco is "the West Coast branch of the Kremlin." Limbaugh, a rock-ribbed skeptic, believes that reports of the death of Soviet communism have been greatly exaggerated. A "Gorbasm" is the sound people make when hailing Mikhail Gorbachev -- "and of course every Gorbasm is fake." Listeners who agree with Rush shout "Mega-dittos" as a greeting. Those who don't agree, he says, endanger his concept of "safe talk...
Realizations like that are one reason Minter maintains a skeptic's perspective when it comes to race relations at Harvard. Minter is not one to deny the leaps and bounds by which race relations on campus have improved over the last 10 or 20 years. But she's also not one to overlook lingering attitudes which she says still divide the campus along racial and cultural lines...
Bush won't stand for it! yells a skeptic. Don't be so sure, Strauss replies with a knowing twinkle. Bush would rather be known as the first President by acclamation since Washington than as the guy who foisted Quayle on the G.O.P. in '96. And instead of campaigning for months, our First Jock can spend all his time on tennis, golf and the Cigarette boat...