Word: whisperingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Whenever I go out with my fellow guy friends to a club and we approach some girls dancing, they always—without a doubt—whisper to one another while dancing with us. What does this whispering mean...
...Dear Confused, We’ve all walked in your shoes. Many times I’ve told my parental units’ friends that I attend Harvard. They stare in shock and awe when I drop that bomb like I’m over Baghdad. They genuflect. They whisper “genius,” or “beatific,” or “God-like,” or “God.” They replenish my table with roasted meats and fine wine. Then, they create a feudal system in which...
...influential Judiciary Committee member and his staff organized internal whisper campaigns, say Republican sources, that led to newspaper articles damaging Miers. The strategy was so successful, G.O.P. staff members say, that the White House called Kyl to object. Undaunted, his staff spread word of the disastrous meetings Miers was holding with Senators until White House officials finally said they were canceling the rest of the sit-downs a week before Miers withdrew her nomination, say Hill sources...
...gave it his own twist. In deadpan tragedies like Le Boucher, La Femme Infidle and The Beast Must Die, passion leads to crimes of passion, and crime to self-lacerating punishment. These films are all the more potent because they speak their evils and ironies in a Gallic whisper...
...editor said, puffing his chest and looking detached. “I’m sorry, but you can’t come in.”Still determined, the administrator tried one more time. But the architect had had enough. Marching up to the door, he summoned a whisper loud enough for all to hear. “It’s cool, I have some coke. We can just do it by ourselves over here,” said the architect, whose social-mapping skills are apparently just as good as his actual mapping ones. The quip...