Word: refrains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...palace guidelines approving appropriate press coverage of family pageants, such as Charles' investiture as Prince of Wales and the royal weddings, have failed to keep curiosity about other royal activities off limits. But a family that promotes its triumphant moments on TV cannot expect that the cameras will refrain from focusing on less attractive episodes...
Costas' tightly formatted half time shows often allow sports figures to get away with bitter cant and shameless self-promotion. It's a gig Costas is eager to outgrow. During the Games he is determined to curtail Olympic hype, and he intends to refrain pointedly from calling every upcoming event "exciting" and every confrontation "critical." Even with the tape delays necessitated by time differences, Costas will cover events as they happen, a high-wire act that will show off his considerable ad-lib talents...
...dick the size of a basset hound, disembowelled a "fan" during the first song. The victim stumbled and bounced around the stage for a while, tripping on his own rubbery intestines. In the next song, Jizmach sliced off the head of a "security officer" while singing the catchy refrain to the band's tune "you Ain't Shit Until You've killed a Cop." The cop danced headless around the stage for 20 minutes, his jugular spurting a jet of red water into the slam-dancing audience. The fans jumped up gleefully to catch it in their mouths. Gross...
...less frequent but did not end. In February 1990, Lujan visited New Mexico's Petroglyph National Monument. There he stunned local officials gathered around the centuries-old "Dancing Kachina Petroglyph" when he bent down beside an adjacent rock and scratched it with a knife. The Secretary was asked to refrain. Lujan explains the incident without a trace of embarrassment: "There was this whole discussion going on, which I knew was not correct, about how hard the rock was, that there must have been enormously sharp instruments to make these petroglyphs. I just took out my knife, and I made...
Some extreme opponents of abortion would go well beyond waiting periods and notification laws. Though they refrain from pressing for such an outcome, they would impose criminal penalties, including prison time, for women who seek abortion -- not just for the doctors who perform them. But many pro-lifers, while they equate abortion with murder, are reluctant to treat women as killers, in part because throwing young women in jail would alienate too many Americans. Press them on the inconsistency, and they often reply that women who seek abortions are themselves victims of exploitation, economic desperation or misinformation...