Word: thom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cool place to visit, but if you stay too long, things could start breaking down. The album's sound is refreshingly unique: long, meandering, melodic passages that take their own sweet time to work themselves out; jangling, spacey guitar work--all of it threaded together by singer Thom Yorke's yearning tenor, hitting and holding notes with almost operatic emotion. The lyrics display an X-Files-ish romanticism: one song, Subterranean Homesick Alien, is about a man who longs to be abducted by UFOs...
...reason for separate congregations is that they make saving souls easier. A doctrine called the "homogeneous unit principle" says churches "grow faster when you have people of a like culture worshipping together," notes Thom Rainer, a dean at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Explains Van Kicklighter, a church-planting strategist: "Our overriding concern is reaching an unreached group of people and planting witnesses among them. Our purpose is not necessarily to be multiethnic." That's also true for many immigrant and African-American ministers. "God doesn't want us to separate out," says Sanon, "but for some reason...
...representations of God show the same deity, culturally and historically. The term Judeo-Christian is often used when a more appropriate phrase would be Judeo-Christian-Muslim. Your inclusion of Muslim perspectives in your article on Genesis certainly supports the understanding of the shared experiences of these three religions. THOM LABARBERA Newark, Delaware...
...Their kid out there on the hill [Thom Serra] did a pretty good job against us, and I thought that their closer was one of the better kids we've seen all year," Walsh said. "He came in and had a pretty good fastball and a curveball. We just didn't do enough things throughout the ball game...
...Thom Jones' justly praised first book was a collection of strong, hard-edged short stories called The Pugilist at Rest. The title was descriptive. Most of the characters were onetime boxers or soldiers, and there was a quality of rest -- of fate and damage accepted -- to the predicaments they described. The stories in the author's second collection, Cold Snap (Little, Brown; 240 pages; $19.95), are at least as powerful and as gritty with existential courage. But they are also rowdier, messier with life...