Word: unspectacularly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Melzer, 53, until recently taught physics at New York City's prestigious Bronx High School of Science. In his 25 years at the school, Melzer's students knew him as a solid if unspectacular tutor. They were unaware, however, that for close to a decade he has also been a leader of the North American Man/Boy Love Association, a 1,000-member group whose goal is the legalization of what it considers "consensual" sex between men and preteen and adolescent boys, but what most people consider child molestation. He appears on the masthead of its newsletter, the Bulletin...
Vermont sophomore Christian Soucy, the 1992 Rookie of the Year, seems to have returned to form after a series of unspectacular performances...
...MORE THAN A YEAR, THE U.S. has been tantalized by tidings of economic recovery. And now those esoteric leading indicators that so hearten the experts are becoming visible to average workers: consumers are buying, and the economy is growing at a steady, if unspectacular, pace. Yet something important is missing as President Clinton prepares his prematurely overdue economic plan: new jobs...
...unspectacular painter, you might think -- but take care. For it was also Sickert who in his old age, during the 1930s, became obsessed with mass-media images. Decades before American Pop, and to the consternation of most critics, he made signery into scenery, recycling theater publicity photos, news shots (of the King with his horse trainer or Amelia Earhart being mobbed at the London airport) and even a gangster-movie poster of Edward G. Robinson. No American or European artist at the time used such sources with as much aplomb. Scorning British good taste and the Edwardian artist's role...
Gorillas in the Mist: Here's one way to explain Harvard's unspectacular 31-13 loss to Cornell...