Word: complainingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Duke doctors complain that the volume of patients they must see each year has exploded. "Doctors are expected to do patient evaluations in 10 minutes," says a former division chairman at the hospital. "We used to have 30 to 40 minutes." Periodically, harried clinical researchers get profit-and-loss statements that compare the costs of their scientific work with the revenue they generate through patient care...
...deliberately complementary partnership. Hussein plays the role of the beaming, benevolent father, while Hassan is the disciplinarian, even if it makes him unloved. Hussein will receive a delegation of functionaries, clap them on the back and tell them they've done a fine job. Then he'll phone Hassan, complain about their shortcomings and instruct his brother to sort...
...happy inspiration for Greenpeace to take its bus not just to port cities but inland too. In Howard County, Mo., the ocean activists meet Roger Allison and Rhonda Perry, family hog farmers. They complain that Missouri and its small farms are being lied to, undersold and fouled with reeking air and polluted water by huge, corporate-owned, factory-style hog operations. Dorry responds with the parallel case against factory fishing. "It's the same story here!" she says. "You guys are trying to make a living. The factories are making a killing...
...along came Russell, who had previously appeared most prominently in Malibu Shores, an Aaron Spelling drama that ran on NBC during the 1996 season. Russell says she was nervous at the audition, seeing more than a dozen actors go in before her, and she remembers calling her agent to complain, "I'm not going to be great after waiting for two hours...
...hall of mainstream animation fame. Like the Wildebeast stampede in The Lion King or the ballroom sequence in Beauty and the Beast it is difficult not to be enraptured by this visual tour of the capital of ant farms. As you'd expect, listening to Woody Allen complain about "never being able to lift more than ten times his body weight" is funny, but in Antz, it is the panorama that steals the show. The casting choices made by Dream Works are a good stab at originality in the increasingly stale world of animated blockbusters, but in the end, Antz...