Word: sleeting
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...irresistible" hysterics who love life so ferociously their hugs would smother it at birth. This romantic comedy is just as pushy, and a disaster. All its desperate plot maneuvers (Ben and Sandra making like Tarzan on a train roof) can't give the film wit; all the slo-mo sleet, rain and confetti can't give it style. And why do the three stars look so drawn and pocky? Well, it had to come sometime: this is DreamWorks' first reprehensible fiasco...
Neither rain nor sleet nor snow would keep All-American James Blake from living up to that adjective...
...tenantdoorman relationship, some tenants have refused to open the door for themselves even when greatly inconvenienced by their abstinence. When my colleague was indisposed on one winter morning, an impatient tenant knocked on the door with his umbrella, beckoning him to open the door. Evidently, enduring snow and sleet was preferable to eschewing pomp and circumstance...
...tapping fingers a little in the early days of the Nagano Games, and an occasional hint of loss, frustration and anxiety flavored the opening moments. The glamorous, made-for-TV showcase of the men's downhill was postponed and postponed and postponed again, as snow gave way to sleet gave way to rain. Delay after delay left the athletes fractious, and fans who had traveled from distant islands to watch the Games found themselves standing in strong winter monsoons. The Olympic Village waited and waited to see Paul Kariya, the Canadian hockey star of Japanese descent, arrive, and finally...
Boston will be covered by "about two to five inches by morning," Newhall said last night. In Cambridge, students can expect "about three to four inches overnight, mixed with sleet by morning," he said...