Word: weaknessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In the first great flowering of his career, in the 1950s and '60s, John Cheever was, to all appearances, the crown prince of normality. The wife and three children, the faithful retrievers, the rambling old house in Ossining, N.Y. - in all its outward signs, his life was commensurate with his...
Khamenei appears to be signaling that he knows what Washington is up to - and that he has no intention of backing down. Thus the new diplomatic game between the U.S. and Iran: Neither side wants to negotiate from a position of weakness, which is why the U.S. is keeping in...
"Never apologize and never explain - it's a sign of weakness." - John Wayne as Captain Nathan Brittles in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon.
Nationalism can be a powerful force in China. Fueled by a century and a half of foreign occupation and an education system that emphasizes that era of national weakness, patriotic sentiment can flash at times when citizens feel that the nation's interests or dignity have been violated, as when...
Just as with the rest of us, his great weakness is hope. He's attracted to it and deeply suspicious of it all the same. It's a reason he's been preoccupied lately by the brief heyday of the Soviet avant-garde in the years right after the October...