Word: spectacularly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Europeans find that unsurprising. Europe, after all, is indulging in its own protracted bout of navel gazing now that moves toward a common defense and security policy have met with spectacular nonsuccess. Notes Andre Fontaine, chief editorialist and former editor of Le Monde: "A country that is deprived of enemies falls back on its internal problems." He adds, "The United States won the cold war, but it paid too high a price for victory. It no longer has the money or the public backing to play a prominent role abroad...
Clinton's plurality in the popular vote, 43% -- vs. 38% for George Bush and 19% for Ross Perot -- was solid rather than spectacular. But his victory nonetheless was sweeping. Geographically, the Arkansas Governor showed enough strength in every part of the country to enjoy a more than comfortable margin in the Electoral College; he won 31 states and 357 electoral votes, vs. only 18 states and 168 electoral votes for Bush. More striking still, Clinton rolled up pluralities or majorities in most major demographic groups: men and women; blacks and Hispanics; every age group, from 18 to 29 to over...
...newer songs, mostly played on the piano along with some spectacular harmonica playing, lacked the immediate accessibility of the old familiars...
After enduring three cross country seasons with injuries to her feet, this year's captain of the Harvard women's team has beaten the odds, finishing her long-distance running career with a spectacular season...
...Greek mainland and Crete. In Crete fashionable women sported ankle-length dresses, with necklines low enough to make Madonna blush. (The art of weaving originated more than a millennium earlier.) And in the Balkans metallurgists were hard at work crafting elaborate tools of lead, copper and iron and spectacular ornaments of gold...