Word: vigorous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...century and a half, Shakespeare was vivisected and prettified. The biting vigor of the language was made toothless. In the original, a half-demented Macbeth rounds on a servant with...
...like God, is love. It is the Calvary of the Atomic Age. It died for man's sins. It descended into hell and rose again. "[On] the fifteenth day Hiroshima was covered with flowers . . . cornflowers and wild iris, bearbine and day lilies reborn from the ashes with a vigor never known before." And from the hell of Hiroshima, out of the death and transfiguration she finds there, the heroine also is reborn, revived by love...
...creature imprisoned by its own structure and procedures. It is unable to form clear policy. It is unable to make sound and comprehensive plans. It is unable to administer its affairs with vigor and dispatch." Such was the biting indictment of the Civil Aeronautics Board made by former CAB Member Louis Hector in his letter of resignation to President Eisenhower last fall. Last week this view was echoed-and then some-by the U.S. airline industry. The industry is beset by jet-age problems that cry for solution-and airmen feel that CAB is trying to solve them with...
Robert Menzies may eloquently summarize the new Australian vigor, but the national motivation of which you speak comes directly from those dinkum "blokes, coves and coots" who see a job to be done and are quietly going about doing it, fortified by a slightly irreverent bush spirit and the best bloody beer in the world...
...such vigor and strength that some admirers swore he once carried a dead horse up three flights of stairs to be dissected. He had a common-law wife and an illegitimate son, who piously reported the poignant fact that in the 40 years before his death in 1806, at the age of 79, George Stubbs never had a drink of anything but water. Aside from that, little is known about him-except that at his peak he could command a higher price for the portrait of a horse than Sir Joshua Reynolds charged for an earl. There was good reason...