Word: utterings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...students at Harvard ought to have enough clarity of mind to recognize this and thus to treat Jeffries with the contempt he warrants. Jeffries warrants the same contempt that his harebrain counterpart among those I like to call the "scum segment" of America's New Right--the segment who utter fullfledged idiocy about the non-existence of the Holocaust, cynically placing advertisements to this effect in newspapers and magazines...
...chosen genre is not an easy one, and she makes her task more difficult by telling her story in 25 different voices, with each short chapter written in the first person. The author's attempt at so many voices when she is not sure of even one seems utter folly. While they are meant to sound distinct, the characters sound curiously similar. Despite their blue-collar vernacular, each remains somehow knowing and clever...
...this very day, whenever I go shopping, I utter a brief prayer and with great anticipation, check the ingredients on a Twinkie wrapping hoping that the company would get rid of the "may contain vegetable and/or animal shortening" clause and shorten it to just "vegetable shortening." I have yet to be so lucky...
...journalistic horde seems to be split into two camps: those who are covering the trial and those who are covering the "media circus." Those who are covering the trial spend almost all their time watching TV, then rushing out to phones or TV cameras to utter the same phrases as their 200 peers. Those who are covering the media circus spend their time interviewing other journalists: reporters from the Miami Herald grill reporters from France-Soir, while reporters from Italy's La Repubblica patiently answer questions posed by reporters from the Palm Beach Post...
...Anti-Defamation League, CODOH was co-founded by Bradley R. Smith, the writer of the ad, and by a known member of an American Neo-Nazi Party.) We're not talking about a controversial argument based on questionable facts. We're talking about vicious propaganda based on utter bullshit that has been discredited time and time again by legitimate scholars of diverse ideological persuasions...