Word: virgin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nautical miles in the course of four days, the cruising is done mostly by the passengers, whose pursuit of romance and adventure is as unrelenting as the wump-wump-klump of the slot machines. Even the popular drinks bear names that would turn an old salt's stomach: Virgin's Kiss, Coconut Cooler, Jamaican Dreams...
Felicitas, "called after the one virgin martyr whose name contained some hope for ordinary human happiness," decides to give birth after all, then takes her place in the company of women. As a mother, she pursues a career in ordinariness with a grudging acceptance...
...schedule, a purpose. I've always been an ambitious and driving person." He looked across the table at his wife. "Rosalynn and I haven't had a vacation since our honeymoon." Then he said they will spend the next two weeks at Caneel Bay in the Virgin Islands...
That California has come to embody such a vision of boundlessness is a little strange, since the dream of California is as much the dream of disappointment as of hope?the dream of arriving at virgin territory, of messing it up, and having gone as far as one can go, of having nowhere to turn but back. As Kevin Starr pointed out in his Americans and the California Dream, California has always stood for something mystical in American life; it has not suffered the tragic historical burdens of the East and South, and it has seemed determined to make itself...
...devout Roman Catholic who rarely misses morning Mass. A wood-and-silver crucifix is prominently displayed wherever he speaks. On his left lapel he always wears a badge depicting the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the revered symbol of Polish nationalism. He wrote a widely reproduced prayer that begins, "Virgin Mary, I come to you in the total modesty of my heart...