Word: touchingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Furthermore, because non-profit university presses routinely assume deals that might incur losses, they often do the work that commercial publishers "won't even touch," Adams says...
Professor of Anthropology Richard Wrangham, co-author of the popular book Demonic Males, says trade books demand the same rigor as scholarly monographs, but with a touch of color...
...much about. We are nothing without them, yet we think and behave as though they don't matter once they give us their vote....I don't want to be connected with this self-important, voluntarily and fiercely isolated organization that couldn't possibly be more out of touch with what representative government really means...
...premises, Roadshow makes for strangely addictive television. Led by Chris Jussel, an affable former New York City gallery owner, it's an unabashedly folksy blend of game show and art-history lecture. Jussel thinks the show has helped democratize the cloistered antiques world while "giving people an opportunity to touch their past." Each week he journeys to a new city, where he gives a quick tour of historical sights and museums. (This summer, when the show's episodes are taped, he'll be hitting Tampa, Fla.; Baltimore, Md.; Des Moines, Iowa; and Providence, R.I., among others...
...fellow in front of me, clearly in touch with his feelings, says through clenched teeth, "Could you please turn that thing down? It's very annoying." To which Rabbit Ears replies, "Oh yeah? Well it annoys me when people yell into their cell phones..." As if that had anything to do with the situation. Suddenly everyone in the car pipes up, "That's annoying too! But turn the damn TV off." And I realized that there are a lot of angry folks out there who ought to connect and vent about bad manners. What my trainmates needed...