Search Details

Word: lies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...have to trust each other, because we have no choice. We're stuck here together for four years, and we're going to have far too much to do with each other to hold grudges and lie in waiting for one another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Know Who You Are | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

...forgotten funds which sat untapped in Undergraduate Council accounts for years will lie dormant a little while longer...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Gives Up On Dave Matthews | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...hint of the truth about the Holocaust would crush his comedy and reduce to absurdity his "fable" about a man named Guido making a sort of hide-and-seek game out of camp life, diverting his four-year-old son (Giorgio Cantarini) from its harshness and encouraging him to lie low. The idea, of course, is to save the boy from the gas chamber, where the young, the old and the sickly--all those who can't work--are automatically sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fascist Fable | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...show about a college student. Her angry bosses, sounding like defensive Republicans explaining impeachment, said it was the falsehood that troubled them, not the fact that Weston was in reality old enough to be the title character's mother (in some places, anyway). Her defense: she began lying about her age when she was a struggling actress, a profession in which it is assumed everyone lies about his or her age; it was only for consistency's sake, she claimed, that she continued lying once she became a writer. What Weston left unsaid is that given Hollywood's relentless, cannibalistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Expiration-Date Culture | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...surprises continue with "Unsent," a musicalletter to past lovers: "Dear Jonathan / I likedyou too much / I used to be attracted to boys whowould lie to me and think solely about themselves,/ Dear Marcus / You rocked my world / You had acharismatic way about you." Yet, the song wouldn'tmake sense if the music didn't complement theunusual form. Each "letter" seems packaged in itsown mini-song--the verses (seeminglyintentionally) never...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: You Oughta Know the softer side of ALANIS | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

First | Previous | 522 | 523 | 524 | 525 | 526 | 527 | 528 | 529 | 530 | 531 | 532 | 533 | 534 | 535 | 536 | 537 | 538 | 539 | 540 | 541 | 542 | Next | Last