Word: sleeking
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...real objection is to the obsessive way the news is pursued - through the activation of the mouth-frothing, feed-me, feed-me, 24-7 omnivore. Television news has become a sleek, conscienceless predator that works the family beaches and devours everything - high history, low scandal, license plates, dog bones, your private life if you are unlucky enough to fall into the maw. Who would want to be famous in this society...
...longest time, we have been told that George W. Bush is a different kind of leader. He runs the White House like a sleek business. The nerdy all-night debates in the Clinton West Wing Dormitory have ended. The adults are in charge now, we are told, and they are guided by simple, moderate principles that blend compassion with conservatism...
...names savor of medicinal witcheries and faery mythologies. Weeds are infinitely more interesting in their way than mere pampered uptown flowers, those sleek, over bred showdogs. You can boil the wild weeds, eat them, put them on wounds. Their names are surrounded by an atmosphere of gossip. What goes on between Pokeweed and Bluebead Lilly? The groundlings-or groundhogs- want to know. What conspiratorial dialogue is whispered between Blue Toad flax and Monkshood? What soliloquies from Trumpet Creeper, from Lady's Thumb, from the grizzled Salt-Marsh Fleabane...
...captain of our sleek vaporetto motorboat deftly steered us to the private dock of the Hotel Gritti Palace. After our first-class flight on Delta Air Lines, my wife and I were rested and looking forward to celebrating New Year's at this world-renowned palazzo located on the Grand Canal in Venice. In minutes, we were comfortably ensconced in our spectacular room overlooking the canal, replete with Frette linens, Ginori porcelain, thick cotton robes and towels in the pink-marbled bathroom and an immense, multicolored Murano glass chandelier in the bedroom. There was also a chilled bottle of Ferrari...
...WORLD TRADE BRIDGE Toll collector Robert Fuentes unlocks the grimy padlock and unloops heavy chains at the gate to the bridge--one of five busy spans. The bridge is 13 months old and reveals just how open--and closed--the border is these days. It's sleek, wide, built for speed and highly efficient: regular semis have electronic passes that let them zip right through. But the bridge is also slung with concertina wire; 55 state and federal agencies--from the irs to the FDA--have offices in town. Here only Customs and the National Guard carry side arms...