Hyphenated Words (page 2)

a roly-poly guy who resembled the cop in the film

“... cause there's nothing I hate more than goody-two-shoes”. (shouted a sadistic mistress with her whip smacking down the tender ass of a innocent goody two-shoes blonde.)

you theory is a bit far-fetched.

Wall-eyed is funnier than cross-eyed.

... those well-heeled, starry-eyed Macintosh users ...

She suggested it should have had environmental advice or a website link during the end credits, adding it was “troubling” that by the end “humans return to Earth and it seems as if everything will just be hunky-dory”.

The heavy-handed marketing campaign, as any business-school student can testify, worked for a while and then backfired. After an initial spurt of sales, word got out that the radical new machine was annoyingly underpowered and grossly overpriced — a yuppie toy. Although Apple eventually solved most of the computer's problems, IBM compatibles still dominate the personal- computer business. The Macintosh today remains stuck in a niche, with a market share that hovers around 10%.

was that Oppenheimer had been railroaded and ruined by the witch-hunters.

The grass-roots campaign to slip prayer back into school is aimed at a chink in the Supreme Court's rulings: the court has never expressly stated whether voluntary student prayers are permissible. A mail campaign spearheaded by TV evangelist and onetime presidential candidate Pat Robertson has sent every high school principal and attorney general in the nation literature urging that such prayers be allowed as an expression of “free speech” and “equal access to the marketplace of ideas.” (His organization does not advocate student prayers on school-wide intercoms, the practice that got Mississippi principal Bishop Knox suspended.)

As a card-carrying feminist, I ...

skinny-dipping with her.

Lined up on one side are the three-letter cloak-and-dagger agencies - the NSA (National Security Agency), the CIA and the FBI ...

cul-de-sac is a passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end, or in anatomy, any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end. Typically, residential areas of houses often has a dead end ending in a round curve, where houses surround it. That's a cul-de-sac.

So are hundreds of lawyers, journalists and an armchair judiciary of ordinary viewers who have abandoned Luke and Laura on General Hospital for the really hot soap opera of the new TV season: the Menendez trial, covered live and virtually gavel-to-gavel on Court TV.

During the Middle Ages, tournaments often contained a mêlée consisting of knights fighting one another on foot or while mounted, either divided into two sides or fighting as a free-for-all.

She made another startling about-face.

With the go-for-broke enthusiasm of youngsters trying out new toys, scientists are uncovering the mysteries of the brain with technology.

the Joker character in Batman (1989 film) considers himself to be an avant-garde artist.

The browsers were at the plug-ins era, and client-side Java being the whiz-bang of the time. Network-computing utopia was also jazzed about, as well as Virtual Reality web stuff like VRML.

soldiers retreat in a pell-mell fashion