Word: spareness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...conviction involving a seven-year-old girl, confronted a possible life sentence for repeatedly raping a 13-year-old neighbor. Last week a Texas judge approved Butler's request to be surgically castrated rather than go to prison. The victim's family, who knows Butler, approved of castration to spare the girl from testifying at a trial...
...daily editions until all have appeared. The freebies will be one way to take up the slack caused by a nationwide dearth of help-wanted ads. According to the Conference Board, the volume of such ads plunged in January to the lowest level since 1983. Brother, can you spare a line...
...They want another $6 billion to pay for imports of spare parts and materials needed to keep factories working and to revitalize key industries...
...writers themselves are intelligent, articulate women, but the interviewers' blatant fawning frequently makes the interviews seem trivial and stilly. Many of the women are interviewed in their homes or in cozy little cafes near their homes and Pearlman and Henderson spare no words communicating the picayune domestic details of their surroundings. Their voyeuristic glee at seeing Godwin's indoor pool or overhearing one of Fischer's personal telephone conversations is embarrassing. Italics and exclamation points abound. The opening paragraph of Pearlman's interview with Erdrich is only one salient sample...
...takes so little imagination to see what goes on the Porcellian or the Fly and so little effort to realize why they don't want to admit women. Guys, why bother with the pretense that there is something beyond institutional misogyny that would suffer if women were admitted? Spare...