Word: blundered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
STEP 6 Pray that with just a little more than a week to go until Election Day, the blunder isn't fatal...
...failure and I-told-you-so reviews high. But Wolfe found the challenge irresistible. "I was 57," he says, "and I thought the eight or nine years I'd spent on Bonfire had taught me what not to do the second time. So, I proceeded to make every blunder a beginning writer could stumble into...
...over and to build up unreasonable expectations. Things went so well the last time, but that only makes the pressure even greater. You have to live up to that great first impression, every nuance can suddenly turn self-conscious and, worst of all, you can finally make that big blunder that you miraculously avoided last time round. Beck's new album, Mutations, suffers from these post-success symptoms all over the place. Rather than depart too much from his established persona or strain too hard to maintain his position at the forefront of the electronica vanguard, Beck holds back like...
...when Edwin P. Hubble discovered in 1929 that the universe was expanding, Einstein was deeply embarrassed. For the remainder of his life, he referred to the cosmological constant as his "greatest blunder...
...BURTON Congressman calls the President "scumbag." Again, lucky Clinton is boosted by a critic's blunder...