Word: uses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mouthy kid who demands justice. That would be Tyler. Hence the motivation for dating Ally: a revenge scenario devised by his roommate Aidan (Tate Ellington), the kind of wisecracking, sleazy oaf that always hangs around the hero in romantic comedies. Of all the tired, unrealistic means the movies use to get characters together, this ploy is the worst. I would rather be forced to swallow the notion of Tyler and Ally meeting through sheer coincidence than watch this unfold...
...small clues in the film, but it is obvious only if you, like critics, see too many movies). It won't be here, although I see the temptation; it's challenging to accurately assess Remember Me's merits without discussing whether the end is grossly manipulative or fair use of wrenching emotional material. I'll say this: if I had a daughter of impressionable age, I'd rather have her weeping over this mildly tasteless romance than the nonsense of Twilight...
...Research Center report, 79% of millennials say there is a major difference in the point of view of younger and older people today. Young Americans are now more educated, more diverse, more optimistic and less likely to have a job than previous generations. But it is in their use of technology that millennials see the greatest difference, starting perhaps with the fact that 83% of them sleep with their cell phones. Change now comes so strong and fast that it pulls apart even those who wish to hang together--and the future belongs to the strong of thumb...
...talk about creating integrity systems. What are those? I use eBay as an example of how you can create integrity from scratch. If you played according to the rules - if you bought, if you sold exactly the products in the way that you said they were, if you handed them over to the buyer in good order - then everybody created wealth and everybody benefited. And that cycle of integrity and wealth encouraged more people to come in. And then you had a bigger pot of integrity and a bigger pot of creating wealth. It's a virtuous circle...
...Harvard Senior Gift 2010 Facebook page, one other form of media was enlisted to generate enthusiasm: word clouds. Seniors were encouraged to use Wordle (its Web site calls it “a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide") to create nostalgia-inducing Wordle representations of why they chose to give to the fund...