Word: thrustingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bulldogs had to do was to keep winning. Like almost every other team thrust into the spotlight as the challenger, Yale couldn’t last one contest, dropping the finale of its five-game homestand to last-place Brown, 70-64, Tuesday night...
Given the enormous responsibilities about to be thrust upon his shoulders and the less than clear powers he will have to carry them out, any ambivalence Negroponte might have about his promotion would be understandable. As the government's new intelligence czar and the President's primary intelligence adviser--a position created late last year by Congress after fierce lobbying by the 9/11 commission and families of the 9/11 victims--Negroponte has the job of making sure that the kinds of intelligence stumbles that led up to 9/11 and the sorts of miscalculations about Iraq's WMD programs...
Summers’ remarks last month thrust gender concerns into the national spotlight and have earned Summers the ire of many Faculty members, who see his remarks as a setback in their struggle for equality...
...created the Cult of Stokes - that sends his own clutch of fans to the stage door after each show - so much as the power he invests in them. He has a stately bearing, the emotional grandeur associated with Barrymore and Olivier, and a baritone voice of passion, precision and thrust. The musical theater can boast of a few, a very few leading men with the gift of delight: I?d want Kevin Kline on Broadway each year, and Martin Short in any musical comedy. (Short could play both main roles in The Producers, perhaps simultaneously.) But no one exudes...
...common denominator, Cirque makes nearly every other form of entertainment seem timid, sullen, earthbound. Kà flies at its own giddy altitude and takes you along for the ride. If you catch the import of every gesture and plot point, fine. If not, you can still feel the lift and thrust, the vertiginous thrill. Either way, it's quite a trip, one that turns an evening at the theater into an exalting hallucination. Kà induces rapture. --With reporting by Steven Frank/ Las Vegas