A Patriots-Texans game is typically an excuse for a 250-word capsule about the latest Patriots drama.
Speaking of which … Possibly fed up with people thinking he was spending his time writing 160-word capsule reviews of Lost Natives records, in 2002 the former Rolling Stone embarked on an audacious mission to sue someone for having the same name as him.
Pat Dowell, veteran film critic for The Washingtonian, had her 34-word capsule review for the January issue rejected by her editor John Limpert on the grounds that he didn't want a positive review for a film he felt was "preposterous" associated with the magazine.
By Meredith Blake August 25, 2010 "The evolution of words is a capsule history of the race," wrote Dwight Macdonald in his essay "The Decline and Fall of English".
"The evolution of words is a capsule history of the race," wrote Dwight Macdonald in his essay "The Decline and Fall of English".
In other words, a time capsule — one of those homes that have gone untouched for decades and give visitors the sensation of being in a décor-warp.
In other words, the entire capsule gene cluster could be involved in recombination, which is known as capsule switching (Swartley et al. 1997; Beddek et al. 2009; Wang et al. 2010).
But the site has astonished historians and archaeologists for another reason: it represents a "time capsule," in the words of Mr. Kiser, a rare snapshot in time, undisturbed through more than a century of urban construction around it.
At worst, it might have contained a sperm sample, half a gross of freeze-dried human ears, or … I shudder to even utter the words … a Blue Peter time capsule.
In Lost for Words each short chapter is a capsule for one person's habits of thought, pursued with elegant ruthlessness by the author.
Though the word comedian doesn't feature in that capsule bio – it hardly needs to – the "yes" part of the book's title is rooted in her first love, improvisation.
