Word: aghast
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Israel's 25 immigrant centers, referring to the East Europeans. Not the Soviet Jews. Most are so accustomed to life under totalitarianism that they speak in whispers, distrust all government functionaries and shy away from decisions. One Leningrad doctor, hired by a health insurance company, was aghast when his new boss told him to pick a vacation date. In Jerusalem, a newly arrived photographer from Moscow hesitated when TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin bought him Coca-Cola at an outdoor café. "It was a reflex action," the photographer explained sheepishly. "In the Soviet Union, Coca-Cola is the archsymbol...
...like Cambridge housing might compete more favorably with the more foolhardy kinds of building that the Schools now undertake so blithely. But without the classical model of Harvard organized around the collective tubs, the new Big Ivy becomes an accountant's nightmare. The Committee on Governance seems a little aghast at the prospect of trying to weigh Faculty salaries against scholarships and financial aid. Fortunately, these two items do not compete directly with each other but alongside a host of other projects: a burgeoning administrative staff, research categories, building programs, and even the House system...
...began to get hate mail, and some of my clients dropped their accounts. I was aghast. I thought. What is happening to people? This is not the country I have loved. This hate-it's becoming a lifestyle. I had to decide whether that was what I wanted for the rest of my life and for my children's lives, and I made my decision." CHET MORRISON, "2, moved to Mexico City not long after graduating from Vermont's Windham College earlier this year. He is already doing well as a professional photographer. "They classified...
Rossellini in the shadows, Alice-in-Wonderland aghast with mock horror. He follows Louis's lead, loosening his camera to the dervishes of baroque pageantry, treating his subject with an iconic, reverential frontality. Only at the very end does he reassert himself. We see Louis at last in private. Suddenly the film is thrown back on the chaos of its own beginning. We see the spectre of Louis's future in the dying Mazarin. We see that even the Machiavellian Louis cannot escape the clutches of his own deceit. That his philosophy is made feasible only by what it ignores...
Detroit is aghast. The auto industry's nightmare is a requirement that all 1975 model cars show a 90% reduction over 1970 emission standards for hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide. Detroit would have to guarantee emission controls on each new car for 50,000 miles-or pay a $10,000 fine on each vehicle found polluting...