Word: facedown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...musical unity. Characters do not just stand and sing; they stand and deliver, fighting with fury or embracing with abandon, falling down faint in ecstasy. < As Wotan (Bass John Tomlinson) bids a sorrowing farewell to Brunnhilde (Soprano Deborah Polaski) at the end of Die Walkure, they both collapse facedown on the ground, overcome with emotion...
...Pineiro Da Silva, 27, a Portuguese cabin steward, learned of the slaying after one of the terrorists entered the ship's main lounge and motioned to him and Ferruccio Alberti, the cruise hairdresser. The two men were led to the upper deck, where they found Klinghoffer's body lying facedown in a pool of blood beside his overturned wheelchair. The terrorist gestured that they were to toss both the body and the wheelchair overboard. After hearing the body splash in the waters below, neither man looked over the rail. "I wanted to break into tears, but was unable...
...commandos moved through the building, four gun-toting plainclothes officers entered the emergency ward, ordering patients, doctors and nurses to lie facedown on the floor. When the commandos broke into the ward, they shot and killed the plainclothesmen, apparently mistaking them for armed unionists. A fifth death came when a female patient in the intensive-care unit died of a heart attack. The strikers claimed that she had been left unattended when doctors and nurses were rounded up by the commandos. Asked one union member: ! "If this is the democracy that we workers voted for, why are they treating...
...bloody, entertaining tragicomedy that functions both as tabloid journalism (The Rise and Fall of a Drug King) and as cautionary fable. Tony Montana may be exterminated by the hired guns of a rival narcotics boss, but he is effectively dead long before that, fallen not into the gutter but facedown in a candy mountain of cocaine. He had broken the crime lord's first commandment-Don't get high on your own supply-and become a zombie before the first machine-gun blast ever...
Trying Everything. The eleven-man Czechoslovak Presidium has vowed to fight down the line for liberal reform and independence in the facedown with the eleven-member Politburo. Dubček agreed to take the entire Presidium with him, including the conservatives among whom the Russians hope to find some allies. But he planned to permit only the progressives to make formal statements at the meeting...