Word: wizenedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Computers have changed the face of business and finance, and not just by eliminating the wizened clerks hunching over desks in the back room. They control the running of airline and train arrivals and departures, and it is within the foreseeable future that they will coordinate all aspects of travel...
Like most gothic romancers, Author Oates puts her really sinister touches of evil into her stage setting rather than her characters. The villain in the end is that old devil, bad environment. Trapped in an imitation-British boys' school among 13-year-old alcoholics-wizened little gnomes like himself...
As the wizened puppet moved across the stage, he fit the bogeyman pattern, and his first few words confirmed the image. At first he told a few forced jokes about Humphrey ("he talks about a debate--why, he is a debate"), did some buttering-up of the locals ("I am...
As one wizened usher of many years put it after one of many precedents was shattered by the McCarthy rally, "I guess things are a bit different tonight."
Every year about this time a wizened Green Lady in Eliot House numbles incantations over the serving line and writes her predictions for the new Year on the top layer of lasagna. Theey are as follows: