Word: thinness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...vampire is the ultimate anti-everything. I haven't read Stephenie Meyer's books; the last encounter I had with the romantic vampire was with Anne Rice, and it was essentially "beautiful people of the night." But the line between attraction and horror is very, very thin. When you see footage of a polar bear walking in the snow, your heart melts. And then seconds later when you see the same polar bear mauling a baby seal, you can be horrified. And I don't see why these aspects of life cannot be reconciled...
...will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars. It is the thin bleeding line within the thin blue line, the anthroposphere within the biosphere, the part of the material world in which we live out our lives. It is ourselves...
...Progressive groups are calling on Senate majority leader Harry Reid to seat Franken provisionally no matter the outcome of the Minnesota Supreme Court's decision, a move that would likely provoke a GOP filibuster. Reid thus far has taken a wait-and-see approach, though his patience is wearing thin. "The time for do-overs is over," says Jim Manley, a Reid senior adviser. "Now is the time - now more than ever - for Norm Coleman and Washington Republicans to stop once and for all their ongoing effort to block President Obama's agenda...
...time we went nobody was there,” Rinehart said with a slight smile on his face. “And so I thought, ‘Okay, I’ll see how this goes.’” After waiting for the tourists to thin out to no avail, Rinehart leaned into an alcove near a window, pulled out the ring, and proposed. “We stood there and enjoyed the moment for a little while until a woman who wanted to take a picture out the window asked us to move...
...contentious issue in the negotiations right now. Nevertheless, it's clear from his campaign statements that Franken will be a reliable Democratic vote on health-care reform. "There's no question that a health-care bill with a public-option component might end up being one of the razor-thin votes of the year, where Franken's vote could make a difference," says Larry J. Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...