Word: timidness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Clinton's Republicrat antics have been familiar to all Americans who have even an elementary knowledge of political affairs. If Clinton seems even more timid now, perhaps his current bout of spinelessness is due to the Republicans' electoral gains in the Senate and their continued control of the House of Representatives. Also, although I hate to encourage the sort of unfounded rumors and conjecture that have fueled scandals such as Whitewater, the White House Travel Office firings, the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit and even Vincent W. Foster's suicide, perhaps Clinton is trying not to tread on any toes...
...about "the alien landing at Roswell." Dark Skies posits that the government suppressed news of the Roswell aliens and that the space demons have taken over America by implanting infant aliens in people's brains--a scenario for people who think Oliver Stone's conspiracy theories are way too timid...
...film studio. For the final irony is that Hollywood, with its dozens of gay stars, its hundreds of gays in positions of creative and executive power, is afraid to depict homosexual life--the world it knows and could persuasively dramatize. The whole town, timid as ever, prefers to reside in one huge, beautifully appointed celluloid closet. Or a gilded birdcage with a cover over it. The world looks safe and cozy from inside. Why would anyone want to come...
...these episodes must have meant more to a sixty-something Fellini in 1980 than to the average contemporary movie-goer. The vision of tightly tank-topped biker chicks possessed by a rock and roll frenzy looks more comic than frightening. The faint soupcon of lesbianism seems a little timid and fastidious by today's standards...
...pass next month. The package Gingrich outlined would shave as much as $100 billion from spending during seven years, devoting $25 billion of this to tax cuts. If this package sounds familiar, there's a reason. It's a pale twin of the President's February 1995 budget, the timid postelection plan that launched this yearlong roller-coaster ride in the first place. But there is one new wrinkle: with tax cuts up front, Gingrich's scheme could very well increase the deficit in the next two years, then leave it hovering near $200 billion thereafter...