Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...double entendred and hysterically ironic scenarios, could only be mastered by a group of actor with impeccable comic timing and greaversatility. Particularly notable are Jame A. Carmichael '01 as the dry Lt. Co-Korn; Michael P. Davidson '00 as the stereotypical Italian brother; Mattias Frey '01 as the timid Major Major Matthew E. Johnson '99 as the boomin Col. Cathcart; Ollie M. Lewis '00 as the dying Clevinger; Andrew K. Mandel '00 as the expressive Chaplain; and Joe A Nuccio '00 as the mercurial Milo. Nearly all of the characters these seven actors play, however, are entertaining and endearing...
Stone the filmmaker is always on a weird trip, is ever on the edge of wetness; that salutary quality endears him to souls more timid and judicious. It is as if we had chosen him as our Designated Liver, to be our recording angel and exemplary fool, to be the '60s adventurer, to go to Yale and war, do drugs, have sex with all classes and colors of women, to make scenes and movies, to be the gonads and guilty conscience of his generation. And if we hadn't drafted him? Then Stone, as he did for Vietnam infantry service...
...Force General Joseph Ralston, because of the disclosure that the general had had an affair more than a decade ago. This time Cohen knew he needed a winner. After just six months as the lone Republican in Clinton's Cabinet, Cohen was already being typed as too timid and pointy-headed for the job. A second failed candidacy would have been disastrous. After an initial round of interviews with the five finalists two weeks ago, Cohen and his top aides huddled to judge the candidates, with help from Shalikashvili. A couple were rejected because they were deemed too parochial. Others...
This speech foreshadowed the current Age of Apology, as public remorse has become the refuge of middle-aged politicians too timid for body piercing. Bill Clinton has raised these I'm-so-sorry sermonettes to an art form. The survivors of the Tuskegee, Ala., syphilis experiments and the victims of 1950s radiation research have all been awarded the presidential seal of sorrow. Tony Blair, an adroit mimic, apologized for the Irish potato famine before he even got around to hearing the latest Di-and-Fergie gossip from the Queen...
...hasn't evolution produced more mice with rippling chests? "We're just starting to look into this," Lee explains. The burly mice seem to be a little slower and less timid than their normal counterparts. "That probably wouldn't be much of an advantage in the wild," says...