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...says to people, in a popularized way, it's all going to pan out in the end," he says. "It assures them, in the midst of a general cultural breakdown and a time of growing danger, that God is going to redeem the time." Evangelicals who had felt somehow left behind in secular terms, by a coarse culture and a fear of general moral decay, welcome arguments that even the most tragic events may be evidence of God's larger plan. In fact, you don't have to be religious to be hoping for that as well...
...accompanied her, first to France, where they married, and then to Germany. Davis produced a documentary for Britain's BBC about three generations of Jewish families in Germany. It proved an emotional experience for Davis, whose mother was a Holocaust survivor. "My mother thought I was getting private reparations somehow, because everything of hers was lost," Davis recalls. "It was a real catharsis...
...would be lovely to invent an alternative reality in which Dick somehow survived to see the flourishing of his reputation: cover-story tributes in the New York Times Book Review and the New Republic; the opera made from his novel Valis; the issuing of old novels (some published for the first time) in spiffy editions; a generation of readers avid for his teeming, dystopic visions. "What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century," wrote Maus author Art Spiegelman, "Philip K. Dick is to the second half...
...Jiang is not handsome. his broad chest, bold ears and feral demeanor is Ajax rather than Paris, more like Bogie than Grant. "He has a very common face," says Chinese novelist Wang Shuo, "but somehow his face has something that represents power." China's actress-of-the-moment Zhao Wei, who has acted with Jiang twice in the past six months, confides, "I don't like this kind of man. He's too strong." And, she says, he isn't pretty either. "Everybody's face looks like some animal," she jokes. "Jiang's looks like a gorilla...
...fell asleep on the couch in 1982, and when you wake up, guess what's still on TV? The World Cup, of course. At first you pay little attention to the teams on the screen until you notice that the players wearing the royal blue jerseys are somehow different. This guy with a candy-apple red Mohawk darts into view, launching his lanky frame at the ball like a madman. In the center of the defense is a buzzing human gnat wearing the black-leather face mask of a professional wrestler. The team captain is a silky assassin who snakes...