Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That paper on Dickens's use of irony is due in but scant hours, yet Bleak House is sitting on the shelf untouched. Some students, facing this predicament, might throw their arms up in despair. Those in the know, however, don't sweat it--they simply reach for the trusty black and yellow stripes...
...child he had tried to kiss her behind a door: more kisses to come, one understands. Then at the post-opera ball Newland hurries to announce his engagement to May, so as to detract attention from the newly arrived Countess and her questionable past: this man will never throw reponsibility and convention to the winds for the passions of the heart, one realizes...
...imagine a combination of the storylines of "La Cage Aux Folles" and the 1991 hit "Greencard", you have the basic plot of "The Wedding Banquet". What the movie lacks in originality, however, is quickly forgotten as this touching love story unfolds. Director and co-writer Ang Lee manages to throw enough spin into the storyline to make "The Wedding Banquet" a sweet, funny and refreshing love story...
...roommates and I get into arguments all the time. And we almost always end up shouting so loud that people can hear us all the way down the hall. Voices get hoarse, tempers flare, sometimes we throw insults or furniture at each other, some of us stomp out of the room fuming--but only to come back to get that last, trenchant word...
...widespread interest in the sport is beginning to wane. Some American sports fans complain that baseball is slow and boring. This generation of viewers prefers its news in five-second sound bites; in baseball, a pitcher may throw to first base a dozen times and a "good at-bat" can consist of a hitter fouling off ten pitches before putting the ball in play...