Word: rounded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sandford, where the crime rate is minimal and everyone radiates bonhomie - except for some of Nick's fellow officers, who think the by-the-book cop is too suspicious of local customs. As the avuncular chief (Jim Broadbent) tells him, "You come from a city where there's danger round every corner, and it's driven you round the bend." Nick's only ally is the chief's son Danny (Nick Frost, also from Shaun of the Dead), a Marmaduke-like patrolman whose love of American action films makes him think of Nick as Martin Riggs and Marcus Burnett combined...
...Detective Andy Wainwright: You do know there are more guns in the country than there are in the city. Detective Andy Cartwright: Everyone and their mum is packin' round here! Nicholas: Like who? Wainwright: Farmers. Nicholas: Who else? Cartwright: Farmers' mums...
...Friday night, two days before the polls close in Sunday's first round of balloting in the most significant presidential election in a generation, France entered political purdah. Suddenly, the candidate speeches and poll results that have been a febrile mainstay of French news over the last six months simply stopped, in accordance with the law. That left the millions of voters who declared themselves undecided in the final week of the campaign - an astounding 40% of the electorate, according to recent polls - facing a quiet weekend to make up their minds free of media influence. Still, their friends...
...However, round the Surrey bend, the experience and talent in the Cambridge boat soon began to show, with its five returning Blues, two German world champions, and two British Olympians. They got into their rhythm and, having closed the gap, pushed out ahead once in the straight again...
...entrance of Lowell House dining hall and walks into the feeding area, clad in his unmistakable red-and-black plaid hoodie.The UC vice president has been awake since 6:00 a.m. already, trying to polish off a bit of reading for one of the three philosophy classes that round out his course load this semester. But despite having attended a Delta Gamma sorority formal in Boston the previous night, he doesn’t appear to be affected by a lack of sleep. The thrust of this morning’s breakfast meeting is the issue of how to ensure...