Word: groundedness
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So the sky's the limit. Insurance companies will not let him risk his million-dollar neck by piloting his DC-3. Travolta, grounded for the foreseeable future, consoles himself with fantasies of flight. "Gee," he remarked in the Los Angeles County Museum as he surveyed a vault among the...
Such paintings are grounded in a Gothic past. In general, expressionism preferred the art of the Nordic Middle Ages, with their unrelenting insistence on the "four last things"-death, judgment, heaven and hell-to any Mediterranean tradition. Egon Schiele's knobbly waifs, all etiolated limbs and pinched flesh, are...
Those fears, grounded in the Holocaust and in the four wars that Israel has fought in the past 30 years, remain strong today. Whatever the explanation (sociologists favor such terms as "Holocaust complex," "Massada complex" and, since the 1973 war, "October complex"), there is clearly an acute sense of suspicion...
The Greek tanker Global Hope, a 682-ft. tanker with 32 crewmen aboard, is grounded in 22-ft. waves, the Coast Guard said.
There is no apparent limit to the richness of her patterning. The objects are disciplined by a vertical-horizontal grid, or held like parts of a collage in shallow framing boxes; those formal devices, along with the shapes themselves (the jig-sawed edge of a plank recalling the side of...