Word: wowing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...plusses for people living in Brooklyn is that every single lunch spot—hot dog stands, White Castles—in the novels…people actually eat there. Things are in the right place. For them it’s like, ‘Wow, this is real’…you just want to know that everything’s in a certain place...
...members interviewed for this story complained that often the focus of media coverage was not the plight of campus workers, but instead the thought of Harvard students skipping classes and generally defying the Ivy Leaguer stereotype. Elfenbein ruefully accounts her experiences with one journalist, who exclaimed “Wow! It must really smell in there!” as being representative of a typically superficial attitude lacking in substansive analysis of the issues at stake...
While the British market may tolerate pop acts that strip acoustic rock of its angst, leaving it a quiet affirmation of joy, it seems that for Americans, without the wow factor of pop stars like Britney Spears and ’NSync, this music may be too understated for mass commercial success...
Smith closes his piece with what he must regard as a novel suggestion: “Why not have two tours—one to wow the weekend tourists, and another to give applicants meaningful information about the school?” Well, in fact, we do. The tour run through the Information Office, which is perhaps the one Smith attended, is for tourists, concentrating on Harvard’s history and it buildings. The Admissions Office tour, for prospective students and their families, focuses on “contemporary campus and academic life,” the nitty-gritty...
...noticed when I was up in the second half, I was like, ‘Wow, they’re just sitting back right now.’ You could tell,” said UConn midfielder Mary-Beth Bowie...