Word: thrumming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...larger picture. No South African white in the stadium wasn't thinking about his country's blacks, no white American wasn't contemplating what we did to the Indians. In the stretch Cathy finally caught the Jamaican, and then strode ahead. The sound was a soundscape: just this immense thrum of noise. Only in the last 20 meters was it clear she would win, and then the sound crescendoed. You were in a waterfall. I think everybody felt, behind their screaming: Well, of course. She had to win this race. It was predestined. It wouldn't be allowed...
...river. The locks are too small to handle its 1,200-ft., 15-barge tows, and so they must be broken in half to go through the lock and then reassembled on the other side. "You want to keep moving all the time," explains Captain Dennis Drury over the thrum of his boat's diesel engine as he slowly pushes more than two acres of barges carrying 20,000 tons of corn into a narrow lock at Winfield, Mo. "But you can sit here for a day and a half waiting on your turn to lock." So the corps wants...
...rocker She's Too Good for Me, the lyrics wring pathos and irony from the misfortunes of unlucky lovers. Yet Sting's manners are too refined to let the suffering spoil the lush settings; the shackles in this emotional dungeon are lined with velvet. In Seven Days, pizzicato strings thrum a decorous, mocking waltz as a man muses over various ways to deal with a romantic rival. In the darkly cynical Love Is Stronger than Justice, a man kills his brothers to avoid sharing the affections of a beautiful senorita. "I look forward to a better day," Sting blithely sings...
...indifferent to sports may have a greater stake in Giamatti's struggle than they realize. The central question hinges on whether collective celebrations should reflect or ennoble their societies. Reflection, these days, means augmented, intensified doses of behavior already lamentably available on the streets: rudeness, insensitivity, the steady thrum of flash-point violence. Bart thinks he has an older, better idea: orderly, considerate crowds in clean, pleasant surroundings, absorbed in a leisurely spectacle performed by happy, fulfilled heroes. How could people exposed to such idyllic wonders fail to carry some of their experiences out into the streets and their...
This year a note of truculence may thrum now and then in the holiday; prayers for the hostages will sound and some rhetorical menace will be aimed at ayatullahs and other Iranians. The nation will brighten itself with parades and fireworks and concerts in the park, and cute local events like the porcupine race in Council, Idaho. Patriotism and nostalgia will gust among the picnickers. But on the whole, American morale may not be up to a convincingly exuberant Fourth. In the years since Viet Nam, the U.S. has accumulated a few sorrows that, if not worthy...