Word: unkindnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Reagan years were unkind to college students. Cuts in student aid programs made mounting tuition bills even harder to pay. Although this in itself was bad enough, perhaps the unkindest cut of all was not financial...
...piano chirping in a Caribbean accent, is called Walking on Broken Glass. With self-absorption comes the dramatizing of the diva's ego. No one has experienced or endured what she has; no one has been so mad, bad or sad. The woman in these songs is "blind, viciously unkind" (Why), "cynical, twisted" (Precious). If Emily Dickinson were to show up at the Betty Ford Center, she might testify, as Lennox does in Legend in My Living Room, "I've shed my tears in bitter drops/ Until the thorn trees bloomed/ To take the spiky fruit to crown/ Myself...
...score. Only a handful have mined a literary vein as rich as Damon Runyon's wry stories that transmuted thugs into thinkers and louts into Lochinvars, and elevated their gutter parlance into a courtly elocution, full of flowery phrases scrupulously shorn of contractions. While time has been unkind to many landmark musicals, Guys and Dolls has sustained its glowing reputation despite a clumsy 1955 Hollywood rendition with Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra and a trendy, swingy all-black revival on Broadway...
...alpine team competes in the slalom and giant slalom at races (the famous downhill, sensationalized by national television, is not run due to unkind insurance premiums. Nordic jumping has fallen to the same fate). Seniors Rana Dershowitz and Andrew "The Alien" Holleman captain a strong alpine contingency. John Laserte returns from Vermont to coach for yet another year (the fella just won't go away) and Johnathan L. Shefftz KSG '92 stands close by his side, serving as assistant coach...
...questionable. Burly should be used with care, since it is "too often associated with large black men, implying ignorance and considered offensive in this context." Articulate could be deemed offensive "when referring to a minority . . . and his or her ability to handle the English language." Illegal alien is unkind, especially to Mexican Americans; "the preferred term is undocumented worker or undocumented resident...