Word: exaction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
General Manager Arthur Thomas said he was not at liberty to give the exact cost of the renovations, but he did say that it was a "substantial," six-figure number...
Although McCorkle did not have exact figures yesterday, she said that about 400 people applied and about 200 were accepted to the program's four nonfiction classes, four poetry classes and five fiction classes...
Some members of the staff have already volunteered. "There have been people that have shown an interest," Murphy said, declining to provide names or elaborate on the exact number...
...energy released is also no measure of its destructiveness. A small quake in the center of a city can kill 1,000 people for every life lost to a monster tremor in a thinly populated place--like the death toll if any (there doesn't seem to be an exact count) in New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811-12, when it was rocked by one of the most severe series of earthquakes ever to strike the U.S. The Kobe quake was only slightly bigger than the Northridge tremor but more disastrous in part because its full force appeared to hit densely...
...most perfectly realized painting in this show has to be White Forms, circa 1955; the balance between the rushing black and the captured density of the static white seems exact, perfect and yet imperiled by the energy of movement. Such structures have a lot to do with the way New York City and industrial America generally were described by photography. When Walker Evans looked at the Brooklyn Bridge or Margaret Bourke-White at the Hoover Dam, they saw hieroglyphs of power; so, moving through Manhattan, did Kline. The graininess and stark contrast of Robert Frank's photos...