Word: thudded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Thud of Adjectives...
...updated it with "the wail of sirens . . . the thud of bombs...
...almost hear the faint, far whisper of their forgotten songs. Youth, strength, aspirations, struggles, triumphs, despairs, wide winds sweeping, beacons flashing across uncharted depths, faint bugles sounding reveille, far drums beating the long roll, the wail of sirens, the crash of guns, the thud of bombs, the rattle of musketry-the still white crosses...
...Belloc's view, must go hand in hand in literature, as they do in life. So, when one of his Four Men puts to the others the question, "What is the best thing in the world?", the Sailor answers: "Flying at full speed . . . and keeping up hammer and thud and gasp and bleeding till the knees fail and the head goes dizzy." But the Poet says: "[The best thing in the world] is a mixture [of] great wads of unexpected money, new landscapes, and the return of old loves." To which the third man, oM Grizzlebeard, retorts contemptu ously...
Planets connect with a dull thud in this rehash of an earlier science-fiction thriller made last year by the same producer. There are some shots of a familiar-looking space ship and rumors of an impending collision between the earth and Bellus, but the picture spends most of its time on a cold love triangle between a hot flyer, a hot woman scientist, and a drab doctor. Unfortunately the picture never shows how the world would act as Doomsday approached...