Search Details

Word: straying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Many students who seek advice at OCS are hesitant to break the mold and stray away from high-paying, and often high-status careers in business, medicine...

Author: By Laura C. Semerjian, | Title: Young Graduates Plant Their Roots in Cambridge | 4/16/1997 | See Source »

Jessica H. Fong '99 was too busy focusing on the computer in front of her to let her attention stray. Fong, who is hearing impaired, had to "listen" to the music through the ears of the typist who transcribed the words of the opera into words on a screen...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: A Music Appreciator | 2/22/1997 | See Source »

...unslamable, the songs tend to root audience members, who are used to being able to recline in their sweet darkness (or their lover's sweet arms!), to a double-footed position on the floor, nearly impassive, as if unwittingly having looked upon a semi-hand-some, but helplessly stray, masculine Medusa. Sadness' vicar...

Author: By Scott W. Slavin, | Title: The Red House Painters Bring Moody Absolution to Mama Kin | 12/6/1996 | See Source »

Lead singer Mark Kozelek is a semihandsome, but hlplessly stray; masculine Medusa. Sadness' vicar...

Author: By Scott W. Slavin, | Title: The Red House Painters Bring Moody Absolution to Mama Kin | 12/6/1996 | See Source »

...matter of getting the right author in front of an appropriate niche audience: this one on Today or Good Morning America, that one, God and the producer Don Hewitt willing, on 60 Minutes. And maybe public TV's Charlie Rose would give a few minutes to the stray novelist. But now Oprah had altered the equation by pushing a first novel to her massive viewership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: OPRAH WINFREY'S WINNERS | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

Previous | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | Next