Word: thrust
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...talk one last time. I’m not really sure why I still go to these meetings since I’ve stopped incorporating all but the most prosaic editorial comments into the draft. Like if our adviser tells me to “re-think the thrust of my second chapter” or “develop a more consistent voice in the introduction,” I nod politely and leave things the way they are. If he tells me that “accept” should be “except...
...common denominator of all U.S. foreign policy is an imperial thrust,” he said...
...common denominator of all U.S. foreign policy is an imperial thrust,” he said...
...certainly agreed with the overarching thrust of the resolution,” Chopra said, “but there might have been problems because it was not in report form but a resolution calling the University to do something...
...been one history had taught us already. Benito Mussolini seemed like a worthy member of the first Axis of Evil, until the country got a close look at him in the newsreels, comically soaking up the ovation of his people with his fists on his hips and his chin thrust out and that odd little party hat perched on his head. It was only then that we started to ask, Is this guy kidding or what? Nikita Kruschev was similarly supposed to scare the daylights out of us, and he did for a while. Then he took off his shoe...