The Usual Suspects(7) ___ most critics, and it has an 89% rating at the Rotten Tomatoes.com movie review site. The movie was (8) ___ by some. Critic Roger Ebert gave the film one and a (9) ___ four, considering it confusing and uninteresting. He also included it in his "most...
Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Financial, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. sus·pect (sə-spĕkt′) v. sus·pect·ed, sus·pect·ing, sus·pects v.tr. 1. To consider (something) to be true or probable on little or no evidence: I suspect they are very disappointed....
Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Related to snatch: The Usual Suspectssnatch (snăch) v. snatched, snatch·ing, snatch·es v.tr. 1. a. To grasp or seize hastily, eagerly, or suddenly: snatched the dollar from my hand. b. To steal, especially ...
As adjectives the difference between suspicious and suspect is that suspicious is arousing suspicion while suspect is...
According to Wikipedia, vegetarianism can be adopted for various reasons, from ethical and religious beliefs, to heath, political, environmental, cultural, aesthetic or economic reasons. Whatever your reason, and whether you're a full-time or part-time vegetarian, you may want to follow the advi...
If you go to Wikipedia and look up Uncanny Valley you’ll find graph that shows the sudden dip and re-rise of the empathy line. I was immediately struck by how similar that line is to the “action potential” of a neuron in the brain. After a neuron fires, it is chemically inhibited...
Wikipedia has what looks like a good list, including some that surprised them. Here are my favorites, including some that I hadn't thought of as Russian in origin until I saw Wikipedia. (I knew the Russian equivalents, but I hadn't realized which way the borrowing went.) (Click here ...
the usual suspects that scupper our thinking. There’s perennial favorites like echo chambers, confirmation bias and false dichotomies (the with-us-or-against-us ruse popular with demagogues from Lenin to Bush). False memory syndrome makes our memories more Wikipedia than Britannia and manipulated ...
I mention this only because all of the entries around these companies on Wikipedia, if not wrong, are written from a perspective of a specific time slice where what they say is true but dramatically and fundamentally incomplete. Also, I ended up dealing with products from all of these compani...
In this case it’s “Last Action Hero,” a movie that Wikipedia claims is a cult classic. We don’t know about that, but it certainly is unjustly maligned. This is a big, loud action movie that is also a parody and celebration of big, loud action movies. Sure, it’s got its ...