Word: wonted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these petty objections can overcome the fact that, if properly approached, the Quad Ice Project is a thing of lyrical and exotic beauty. For this to become readily apparent to the uninitiated requires the willing viewer to assume a more poetic and fantastical frame of mind than is his wont. Tap the vein of poetry latent within us all. Think, not bathroom windows, but towering glaciers. Or, if the bathroom window resemblance remains inescapable, try to overcome its more prosaic implications. These are not ordinary frosted windows; these are the bathroom windows of your dreams, though slightly colder than...
...other hand, abandoned letters in favor of obfuscating memos when it came to discussing, say, the Viet Nam War. Some of the most candid records of that period come from times when a few of the old statesmen were called in for counsel and then, as was their wont, exchanged letters about what they had discussed...
Hoping to record a collaboration that would lead to a revolution in human thought, Kenneth is stuck instead with a farce out of Balzac. Benn's wife and in-laws have plans for him. Matilda can hardly be supported as is her wont on her husband's salary of $60,000. But Benn has assets he has absentmindedly forgotten: an uncle of his, a notable crook in the disintegrating local Democratic machine, once bilked him and Kenneth's mother out of huge proceeds from the sale of family property. Dr. Layamon tells Benn man to man: "Well, as you will...
Some of Vanderbyl's best work is found in a series of posters depicting postmodern architectural whimsies. He is wont to portray almost any three- dimensional object in gaily colored axonometric view, and the effect is a sort of jaunty rigor, Bauhaus on holiday. Another of Vanderbyl's fun-with- geometry motifs is a flurry of polychrome squiggles tossed onto a severe black or white field. In catalogs for Hickory Business Furniture, he has roughly scribbled in color over precise black-and-white photographs of chairs -- once again, antagonistic design impulses in playful coexistence...
...issue has been further complicated because the presence of the contras on Honduran soil violates the principle of self-determination enshrined in the country's constitution. Honduran officials are therefore wont to deny the guerrillas' presence in one breath and, in the next, to explain that the contras are needed to defend the 508-mile border with Nicaragua. Having seen the Sandinistas invade their country in pursuit of contras only last March, some Hondurans believe the guerrillas are not preventing war so much as provoking it. "Of course U.S. economic aid helps us," says Efrain Diaz, head of the opposition...