Word: holmesian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sharper image of Schumer's last moments, Salinger sticks his head in a basin of ice. (It works!) There's a pretty cool demonstration of "trajectory analysis," in which Salinger and Whitman determine the angle of an assassin's bullet by poking sticks through a perforated wall, and a Holmesian moment when Salinger, examining the impression a man's shoe has left in some dirt, says, "I've seen that print before...
...stays the night. Three days later, she turns up dead in the bathtub of a New Jersey hotel. The bulk of the film takes place 15 years later, as reporter Karen O’Connor (Alison Lohman), who idolized Morris and Collins in her youth (how amusingly Katie Holmesian), is assigned interviewing/ghostwriting duties for Collins’ sure-to-be bestselling autobiography. She determines to get to the bottom of what really happened to Maureen that night, driven by a desire to prove herself and her obsessive interest in the pair (both motivations are hammer-to-the-head bluntly laid...
...constitutional rights while being wary of interfering with legislative judgments. That was the simple message of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The Rehnquist court has shown great restraint and circumspection on extraordinarily sensitive issues, such as assisted suicide. On other highly controversial, divisive issues, the court has not been exquisitely Holmesian. It's a mixed report card...
...ravishing jewel box of a mystery--the lock of which Fandorin gingerly, joyfully picks--and an homage to Christie, whose Death on the Nile is the mother ship of all nautical mysteries. Akunin also knows his Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Fandorin likes to indulge in showy displays of Holmesian observation, especially when lady passengers are around. "I have developed my powers of observation and analysis with the help of special exercises," he preens. "Usually a single insignificant detail is enough for me to recreate the entire p-picture." Fandorin is Sherlock Holmes as an endearing, overeager wonk...
Obeysekere fancies himself a Holmesian observer in his own right and an instrument of English justice, but he can't see the treacherousness--as a Ceylonese prosecuting a case involving white men--of the territory he's treading. De Kretser's prose is stunning and subtle in depicting his downfall, evoking the glittering excesses of colonial life--after a party "you could have strolled across the lagoon on the champagne corks"--and the tropical fecundity of Ceylon with equally irresistible power. Who could stop reading a chapter that begins, "Her father, a bony, vivid man with a taste for women...