Word: sunken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bear on the ogress, despite the ravages his misfortunes have wreaked on his appearance. Whistling, winking, and blowing kisses as if he were on an Italian street corner, Pasqualino hums a southern love song as he adjusts his striped prisoner's cap to a rakish angle above his sunken cheeks, hoping to entice a woman whose outstretched whip and frozen gaze make her a figure only slightly more approachable than Hitler himself...
...become a playwright. "You can stand pain if you can write about it," he declared to a friend. The fledgling author became, says Bredsdorff, "a man of deep and apparently irreconcilable contrasts." Heinrich Heine, who observed Andersen in action, called the writer "a tall thin man with hollow sunken cheeks [whose] manner reveals the sort of fawning servility that princes like." All his adult life, Andersen oscillated between vanity and self-abnegation, pride and humility. He was a Christian who rejected the main dogmas of religion, a generous miser, a snob 'who championed the underdog. If contrast described...
...white-haired, sunken-eyed professor wandered slowly around his Columbia University classroom leafing through a copy of James Joyce's Dubliners. "He lived at a little distance from his body," Lionel Trilling read aloud from the book. Then, as if discovering Joyce afresh, he fairly glowed with joy: "Marvelous phrase. Isn't that the essence of alienation?" Still wandering, he went on to observe that a character in the Dubliners kept a rotting apple in his desk, which reminded him that the only way Schiller could compose poetry was with an apple giving off fumes in his desk...
...French eyes, Frantisek Kupka was, for the last 20 years of his life, an ir relevance: a withered Czech emigre, with sunken cheeks and a disproportionately large appetite for food, who lived in a small cluttered house in the Paris suburb of Puteaux, surrounded by old abstract paintings that nobody wanted...
...Coliseum was an unspectacular, partially sunken concrete pile. Our $3 tickets put us in the sparsely populated third deck, high above the action. At those prices few kangaroos go to A's games. Nor do many Bay Area residents either, since the three-time defending World Champion A's annually struggle to gain one million fans...