Word: thinly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air came out in 1997--within a month of each other, as it happened--we rediscovered the joy of reading about very bad things happening to real people, preferably in exotic locales. Maybe it's because we never feel quite so warm and comfy in our poolside deck chairs, fruity cocktail in hand, as when we're reading a true-life yarn about somebody else drowning or freezing to death or doing both simultaneously...
...hero material, though, Reagan had limitations. His head was relatively small, his eyes were narrow, his lips thin. And he didn't know what to do with what he had. As critic Mitch Tuchman has noted: "Reagan's own repertoire of facial expressions was limited to an all-purpose, high-flung left eyebrow and tartly pursed lips. Later, when his attractive young face aged, these expressions were left behind, indelibly etched...
Behind Hynes, Harvard proved to be too thin to challenge Ivy powerhouses Princeton, Penn and Yale...
...final entry in Leong’s relatively thin case file comes abruptly, less than half a year after he was arrested. It’s a nolle prosequi filing by prosecutors, an order announcing their decision to suspend prosecution. According to Twohig, the Commonwealth’s decision is a common one for situations in which the defendant is “clearly delusional” and the remaining charges are minor...
Zakrzewski naturally has pin-straight brown hair, but when she’s performing in a concert—or simply planning to make an appearance at a party—she’ll whip her thin hair into big curls...