Word: uncommonly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rare indeed are some October afternoons, some days in June and some steaks (Webster: 3. Of an uncommon quality; unusually excellent...
Onetime newsreel cameraman-Larry O'Reilly, first U.S. studio photographer to cover the Highway, brought home and boiled down some 30,000 ft. of scoop. His honest excitement both on location and in the cutting room give the film its crisp, uncommon energy. Most notable is O'Reilly's success in depicting two essential opposites simultaneously: 1) the obstinate, difficult bucking of tremendous obstacles (mud, wilderness, green crews who had to be trained on the spot); 2) continuous, violent, swift movement northwards (with the camera leaping from planes to trucks to trains to boats to bulldozers...
...mile district, Dr. Newman drives day & night, sometimes with his pretty, brown-eyed wife beside him, delivering the amazingly numerous offspring of his philoprogenitive constituents. (When he tried to enlist in the Army, he was firmly turned down as indispensable where he was.) It is not uncommon for him to deliver three babies in twelve hours...
...upper middle class, Ingrid Bergman is, in addition, a European gentlewoman, who has lived less among the stultified members of her class than among the cultivated, the flexible, the gifted and the gay. As such, in Europe, she would be no more than an idealization of an attractive, not uncommon type. As such, in the U.S., she is as noticeable as a Negro President...
Wonderland is the Saratoga of U.S. dog tracks. Compared to London's famed White City track, where crowds of 90,000 are not uncommon, it is only a pup. But of America's 40-odd legalized courses, Wonderland is by far the biggest and most profitable. Its pari-mutuel handle for one night often exceeds the totals of Florida's nine tracks. Last summer, in 100 race nights, nearly $20,000,000 was bet at Wonderland...