Word: timelessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...being snarky or saccharine). Because it has ambitions that broadcasters have all but ceded to cable, and sometimes it even meets them. Because it creates a world rather than borrowing one. And because I'm willing to be patient with a show that has learned sling-wielding David's timeless lesson: Sometimes it pays...
...because what I did was try to make the movie based on the experiences I had when first reading the graphic novel in 1988.”FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, REAL QUESTIONSThough it was written towards the end of the Cold War, “Watchmen” expresses timeless, fundamental concerns with the corruptive nature of power. Anthony F. Davis, owner of Harvard Square’s cornerstone comic store “Million Year Picnic,” says, “A lot of those writers of Moore’s generation were products of Thatcherism....When...
...commitment to sleep, / in a paired lightening, peaceful, like the spotted / leopard lying with its unfinished gazelle.”There are several nice touches here, such as the clever pun of “lightening.” Most of all, however, its exquisite juxtaposition of those timeless poetic partners, the ugly and the beautiful, makes it surprising and memorable. Much as with the word “abattoir,” it is an ugly thing beautifully described. And Nilsson is at her best when is she is restrained, unassuming, even quiet. If only she was these things...
...very first poem in the collection “These Trees.” After the narrator has left, the trees will still be there just as they always have been, and her emotions “will have been / just that / mine.” Her locations are timeless, though she and her loved ones may not be.“Clark Park,” the poem from which the collection gets its title, combines meditations on people with ones on places. Clark Park itself is filled with trees whose “trunks are solid...
...founding members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group suspected of orchestrating November's terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the ice was broken with a discussion of a cricket match. And when I visited a conservative seminary campus in Muridke, near Lahore, I was greeted with the timeless scene of young men bowling and batting through the mist rising off a well-tended pitch. They were bearded and wore their trousers hiked up above their ankles - in the manner of the Prophet Muhammad. Even foreigners are touched by cricket mania. Afghanistan, never a cricket-playing nation, is well...