| 单词 | better off |
| 例句 | Thus, regardless of what B does, I’m better off if I take the individualist alternative and give her a bag full of newspaper. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no one out there,” Mr. McCullough added, “who can honestly say Mirabelle isn’t better off in a steady home with two parents.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I think we were better off under the English. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Some dogs you’re better off to just let lie in the sun. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The striking reluctance of whites, in particular, to talk about or even acknowledge race has led many scholars and advocates to conclude that we would be better off not talking about race at all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “No! Grover’s a liar and good riddance. Were better off without him.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Sometimes, I think Nana would be better off dead. I mean, if I got to where I couldn’t take care of myself or didn’t recognize my own family...what’s the point?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that—sometimes—we’re better off that way. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Dr. Silverstein said to them, “We’re much better off not letting him survive, because of brain death.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet, if it came down to it, I might be better off with them than facing Falconer without the script in my hands. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Still, they said that perhaps Morgan was better off with God than alone in this world. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z As Roy rode away on his bike, he pondered the possibility that Mullet Fingers was better off roaming the woods than living at home with a witch for a mother. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "You would be a lot better off, Miss Honey," she said, "if you gave up your job and drew unemployment money." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Was it my fault that my family was a little better off than theirs? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t help but be. Ought to be a law: two ugly people doubling up like that to make more ugly. Be better off in the ground.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Relatives warned him that she was too old for him and that he was much better off finding an age-appropriate wife without the baggage of three children. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z At the age of eleven, Khaleh Mandana began to display signs of an eating disorder, and doctors advised that she was better off living with her mother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Why do I let you drunks sit on my porch? You better off with the goats.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “The more you keep them two highwaymen in the dark, the better off you is. You jus’ got the royal treatment and don’t have clue the first ’bout it. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Sometimes I’m convinced the world wants me to shut up, that I’m better off folding myself into a million pieces. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I hesitated, then decided that I was better off humoring her, as I still had favors to ask. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I’m not sure if she was right, or if I would have been better off on pills or locked up in a mental hospital, but her belief in me was absolute. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I decided that the miniature turret that I had built in the city room and since moved up here to my bedroom was better off on a higher shelf. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “No, Nell. We shall have little space as it is. Any kids we free will be better off in our care than where they’ve been.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Would I be any better off?” she asked. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “So,” he said, “the stupidest things can be set to music. You’d be better off learning love songs.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But we were better off bored on shore than stuck on board like the other Marine units. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “We'd be better off on top. They may come along this bridge too. We don’t want them on top of us before we see them.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Maybe she would be better off without die light ... A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Other Jews were better off than we were. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Do you think their farm will get better off with more children out working in the fields?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Because we take it, as a given, that the more information decision makers have, the better off they are. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Slavery just makes good sense to me. Anyway, our slaves are better off here than in some jungle eating bugs and slugs like savages.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m really sorry, Uncle Jimmy, but I think Julie’ll be better off here with me.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z For the first time since I met him I thought maybe Rondell was better off locked up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “You’re better off without him,” I said as I handed her the box of tissues from the coffee table. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z He wanted to know what was going on, I guess, or maybe he figured Sam would be better off with female company. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The sadness was for themselves, even though they were much better off now than they had been, say, just last night at this time. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “People shouldn’t place all their hopes on these rubs and things. Maybe if they read about King Solomon in the Bible instead of using that oil with his name, they’d be better off.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z When questioned, he said, “Some things we are better off not knowing.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z At least a dozen men, some of them little better off than he was, explained to him that wheel and car were no longer joined by any physical bond. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z It might be true that the average human being was better off now than he had been before the Revolution. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He vaunts aloud that “his blacks” in South Africa are well fed and materially better off under the chains of apartheid than their liberated brothers and sisters in the rest of Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She says she wonders whether people who came home prematurely might be better off living somewhere else for a while, so they would not have to deal with feeling judged. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They are all better off without my intervention, in whatever they do. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The fishermen all swiveled around to stare at Tali, and one of them—a man with a long, scraggly gray beard—said, “You’d be better off avoiding that place.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “I think you were better off with the old one,” said Snape, the malice in his voice unmistakable. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z They were better off than millions of people. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z When he was home, Sass was always complaining about how poor they were and how others were better off. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he adds, “I bet if your dad just thought ahead too, you’d probably be better off.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Even today, in a period of decline, the average human being is physically better off than he was a few centuries ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z To my friend Lena, I said I was better off without Ted. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z We were better off in that green stucco house with Cecile. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They were like shouting, “Chip in my head? I’m better off dead! Chip in my head? I’m better off dead!” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She says I’ll be better off, for now, living with my Dad. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “I did the right thing, didn’t I? You saw how crowded it is there. They would never comb her hair or tell her stories. She’s better off with me, isn’t she?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was, in his expression, a veiled amusement, as though he did not see why she should be so upset but was better off not saying so. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “To places where relocated people go. Trust me, they’re better off,” Ms. Smith said crisply. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It had overflowed, and you were better off digging yourself a hole in the hillside somewhere. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The doctors said I’d be better off with two artificial legs rather than having just one and a deformed foot that didn’t reach the ground properly. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z People were very willing to help, but Eva felt she would soon run her welcome out; winters were hard and her neighbors were not that much better off. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There was something about “wish I’d never” and “better off” and “year of hell,” but not much more Mark could make out. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “They will be better off than they could ever have been in Mexico,” he said, “but I don’t think that’s going to be enough to prevent them from becoming an underclass in New York.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They prided themselves on being incomparably more “cultured,” “cultivated,” “dignified,” and better off than their black brethren down in the ghetto, which was no further away than you could throw a rock. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess she feels better off that way, and who can blame her? I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Maybe we would have been better off staying in Iran after all. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The whiter you were, the better off you were. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’re better off in a bunch of people than alone if they catch them,” 1 said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z If only the preacher had had the sense to hold Henry down just a little longer...there might have been a small struggle, but in the end, they would have all been better off. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He tells us we’re a disgrace to Ireland and her long sad history, that we’d be better off in Africa praying to bush or tree. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I would be no better off when daylight came. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “At the end of the day, we’re better off without him, but thank you.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But her family was better off than his, and every now and then their views diverge on money. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “We would probably be better off without him,” he muttered to York. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Drunk on Mourning and just recently a thief, I guessed the less contact I had with the clergy the better off I’d be. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For the sake of clarity, you may be better off using impartial or neutral instead of disinterested. dived/dove. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Either way, with either parent gone, lam better off. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It just goes to show how useless you are.You’d be better off digging fields and anyway I don’t care. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “You’d be better off on your back, learning tricks useful to a woman. In fact, I can teach you some tonight, if you’d like.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Franklin then had the Algerian argue that the enslaved Christians were “better off with us, rather than remain in Europe where they would only cut each other’s throats in religious wars.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “I doubt that. And if that truly was the case, then I’ve been wrong all along telling you to talk more. Maybe we’re all better off when you keep your mouth shut,” Papa said. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He said that men should act with dignity even in the face of death, that no one was better off than any other. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Recent surveys by Margaret Poloma, a historian at the University of Akron in Ohio, found Assemblies members more educated and better off than the general public. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z You’d be better off watching the Three Stooges than to interview them, like to go interview my father, forget it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z "If only the whole world were filled with people as honest as you, we'd be better off." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He said I would be better off making the trip now before it got too hot. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Whites, I said, often claim that Africans in South Africa were better off than Africans in the rest of the continent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, we’d be no better off in the Homestead. Hate to say it, but if one of us dies, that’s better than all of us.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The patrons arrival had changed all that, but he could not deny that they were better off now, for they no longer went hungry and they were better protected and safer. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not that kind of storm. Bigger storms than that coming. I tell you, boy, you’re better off in here than out on the street when the big storm comes.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Every movement was a reminder that I was a joke, every pain a reminder that I was better off not pressing the button. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z If it always felt this way to break rules and get caught, I was better off being good. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “Well, think how much better off you’d be, just because of averages,” he explained convincingly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z At last, one day, when he managed to overhear his father saying something about being “better off now”—better off with him gone, Sticky realized—he could no longer bear their betrayal. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “We could never have got together. Spender and myself, perhaps. But Spender and you and the others, no, never. He’s better off now. Let me have a drink from that canteen.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have an idea he’s better off as he is,” he added gruffly. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe you’re better off at Camp Purple Haze. I hate to think what would happen to you in the real world.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Well, the way I figure, the less you know, the better off you are.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I was better off knowing he was okay rather than imagining that another Mrs. Moss might be abusing him. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The more time you spend with me and the more information you gather, the better off you are. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “He would have been better off staying gone,” the old man said, pointing to the car with his chin. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Thus, she intended to keep Gwydion alive; perhaps, Taran thought wretchedly, Gwydion would be better off dead. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z And I think that was when I realized you and your father were probably better off if I wasn’t living in the house. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I know where the others are, and although, under any other circumstances, I’d be better off as a free agent, I’m thinking our strange little fellowship might be worth maintaining. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z First of all, he had inherited two thousand dollars from a man whose life he’d saved during World War II. So while he wasn’t rich, he was better off than most of us. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z African Americans, as a group, are no better off than they were in 1968 in many respects. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The guards, most of them probationary prisoners, were not much better off. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Good boy. You’re a lucky cub. Look at your mistress! Wasn’t that worth a little pain? You’re better off than your brother!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z His teachers in Germany had told him that he would never amount to anything, that his questions destroyed classroom discipline, that he would be better off out of school. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And Gurgi, like all of them, would be better off dead than in Arawn’s grasp. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z "And who's finished up the better off? Me, of course. I'm sitting pretty in a nice house with a successful businessman and you're left slaving away teaching a lot of nasty little children the ABC." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Wouldn’t he be better off staying at home?” says the officer. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “He was an impressor. The world’s better off without him. Why am I sorry?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The lighter your skin was in apartheid South Africa, the better off you were. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Except that my wife an' daughter won't speak to me, I'm better off than I ever been before. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And would not the child be better off in a home with a mother and a father, studies showing the importance of a strong male figure in a child’s life? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I shuddered, feeling no better off than the chained monkey and the miserable birds. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z It would be an ordeal, putting our home back together, but we were far better off than most: We had international connections and the wad of hundred-dollar bills my father had brought with him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I tried to look on the bright side, to remind myself that, orphaned or not, I was still better off than most of the kids in Africa. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “When you were seven. My meds weren’t doing their job. And I got to thinking about how you and your mother would be better off without me.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z You’re better off avoiding them when you want to indicate time periods; instead, use “every two years” or “twice a week” or whatever. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of my acne scars never went away, but I was much better off than I'd been without it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z My stomach growls so loudly that I cannot stand it, and next to me Ida is no better off, just as awake and miserable as me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z However, if violence broke out between the two species, Neanderthals were not much better off than wild horses. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "I could castle," he told Tristran, "but there's no one I could castle with'd be any better off here than we are....There's no escape by flying, not judgin' by that thing." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Are we better off leaving the ship just to escape the Collective? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He was a reader and recognized his habit of reading as obsessive and neurotic, and told himself that if he read something less frivolous than newspapers and magazines he might indeed be better off. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The main feeling was that inmates were like a contagion—and the more you kept a professional distance, the better off you’d be. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I am better off doing as Abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Still, I decided we’d be better off if we crossed the road outside the terminal, putting as much distance between us as possible. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z And if she might have been better off dying that night she’d been betrayed and captured, too. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “That’s what I told them. But you better off than they are, so they get jealous.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He’d thought his father meant they were better off without him. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z There are some things she's better off not knowing, and the sordid details surrounding that lock-picking set is one of them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The wooden clogs I wore were terrible for crossing icy patches and clomping through snowdrifts, but I was still better off than those who had lost their shoes, or never had any to begin with. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The goal: to win over the “hearts and minds” of the people of South Vietnam, to help convince them they’d be better off siding with the Americans than with Ho Chi Minh. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Bri could be alive and well, better off there than at home, since the church still had some heat, or at least it had the last time Alex had been there, before the snowstorm. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Part of me had always thought they’d be better off without me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Another part of him—the good part, if there was such a thing—might even be thinking that I’d be better off here. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “That you might have been better off if your animal had been a snake. Your danger then—or assumed danger—might have sent you home before you ever met the patroller.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “I always feel that the closer you get to the original sources, the better off you are,” he said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “No doubt he would be better off in a home. Don’t even consider bringing him home. Just forget him.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z That I would have been better off an only child. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But Jean de Satigny made fun of her artistic impulse, saying that if she wanted to do something with her hands she would be better off knitting booties and learning to make pastry. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes we’re better off if the mind behind the locked door makes our decisions for us. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “We are all better off together, that’s what I think. Let’s turn here, the street is shaded.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘No. I’m better off without it. I want nothing of them. Neither their blood nor their silver ... I’ll carry that hamper for you, Cil. Mr. Lyte can have the old cup.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Too bad it wasn’t me instead of him. You’d be a lot better off.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah!” said Mrs. Bennet, shaking her head, “then she is better off than many girls. And what sort of young lady is she? Is she handsome?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “You don’t have much muscle,” he says, “which means you’re better off using your knees and elbows. You can put more power behind them.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z And if someone in Daffodil Manor had had something to do with Clara’s death, Ophie felt certain she and her mama would be better off knowing that truth. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Celaena curtsied, restraining the urge to keep walking; if she had to deal with too much courtly nonsense, she might be better off back in Endovier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Admitting Shoji is better off without her is admitting she's not the best mom. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Aunt Gloria would have been better off with a cup of tea because in my book of first aid it says a hot drink is good for you if you have had a shock. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Goddard’s becoming untouchable. He can get away with anything. I wish someone would have had the foresight to glean him as a child. The world would be better off.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If the world needed someone as pathetic as me to save it, we were better off dead. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Maybe we were better off just being friends. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “What do you know about real anything, Knife? A bowl of toxic waste is more likely. Well, go ahead. You devote your life to shortening mine, but why should I care? I’m better off dead.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “You want my opinion, you’re better off without him. It hurts only because it’s taken you fifteen years to see what an emotional wimp he is. Listen, I know what it feels like.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to pass anything on to them, anything of mine they would be better off without. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But he added, “In his case, yes, he would have been better off had he been to a hospital that was doing angioplasty.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And yet, wasn’t she better off here with Lyddie, who loved her, than with those two, who must not have given her enough to eat? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I thought, “I’m no better off than I was before. In fact I’m worse off. Now I can see when the end comes.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Leah continued her news report about the all-important boondocks village of our childhood fame, which in my opinion is better off to forget. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Would Silas be better off if his family didn’t have guns? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Sasha didn’t seem to need other people much; in fact, they often said that the world would be better off without humans in it at all. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your mama would be a lot better off if she kept her watchful eye on that husband of hers instead of on you.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I wondered if I might be better off if it did. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you might, if you had your own Dauntless guards. And then all it takes is one shot—bam, he’s dead, and Erudite’s better off,” says Zeke. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Looking at those crowds on television, Barry was relieved when Mom and Dad decided they were better off at home. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z “We’re not rich but we are comfortable and we are middle class and our son is better off than we are.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They say that the tax cuts encourage the investment and innovation that will make everyone better off. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And as I hustled to the sidelines and jumped into a full minute of foot fire, shouting the countdown from sixty with Coach, I kept wondering: Wouldn’t we have been better off thinking that way? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “You know, if someone is going to be mad at you just because you didn’t let them have their way, you’re better off without them.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “You’re wrong about what my father would want. He’ll be better off if I’m dead. And even if that wasn’t true, I’m not that strong.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Nearly a year after his heart attack, Jean Miele was, remarkably, better off. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But the sky will not fall, and we will all be better off for it in the end. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m probably better off just going home and sleeping, but I don’t want to leave him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “All questions with you, ain't it, Taylor? My bow and arrow’s to hunt boys and kill them. The world's better off without them. Spurty scum, that's what little boys are made of.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I still tell myself that when he drove away that day he wasn’t saying good riddance; he was saying, Oh, Lily, you’re better off there in that house of colored women. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After going round to every panel he was no better off. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Asked later whether Wilson would have been better off if he had had his heart attack elsewhere, Bhalla said the most important issue in heart attack treatment was getting the patient to a hospital quickly. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Kept digging and digging until I discovered some things about my daddy I’d’ve been better off not knowing.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z It sounded like a great opportunity, but I’d just basically talked myself into the idea that I was—that we all were—better off with my staying home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I'd thought my heart broke when he'd told me he didn't love me, that we were better off alone than together. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “If one of them was a horse and the other a baseball player, we’d be better off, believe me. They could turn in a profit.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “A good woman misses a lot she’s better off without knowing.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “And Pal-Is sounds like palace—but they don’t even have a king. Do you think they would have i been better off with kings?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But now I figure I’m better off just getting on with my life. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “All I’m saying,” said Billy, “is your mama would be better off if she kept one eye on her husband and one eye on Aileen.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The uncomfortable assumption had begun to dawn on me that maybe this was all some sex-related thing I was better off not knowing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Everyone is better off when I don’t talk. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Some days, she wondered if they would have been better off dying on the butchering blocks instead. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Most peasant farmers and herders, who constitute the great majority of the world’s actual food producers, aren’t necessarily better off than hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z War could have been the stallion that he rode, pan of, if not all, the way to the Legislative Assembly, whereas victory left him no better off than when he started out. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z You would be better off as a statue. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere in it all, Vonetta and I suspected that JimmyTrotter hadn’t told the whole truth, which Fern was better off not knowing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I wondered who was better off about that. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Come on. If people didn’t have guns in the first place, we’d be way better off.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z He then vanishes, leaving a note saying, “You’re better off without me.” A Bloody Crime, a Mysterious Disappearance and the Long After 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z If the people who listen to arguments were not better off on average, they would evolve to stop listening to arguments. ArtsBeat: Researcher Responds to Arguments Over His Theory of Arguing 2011-06-15T14:49:49Z We'd have been a lot better off if he'd stuck to being a draughtsman and not worked full time for the party. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z So most American workers - from Staten Island, N.Y., to Staten Island, Calif. - don’t feel any better off than they were during the worst recession in U.S. history. A sampling of editorials from around New York 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The hip-hop numbers are unobjectionable, though really you’re better off watching music videos. Dance Review: Out of the DVR and Onto the Stage 2010-10-08T22:00:00Z I’m better off when we visit each other. | Q&A: Marlon Wayans on His Horror Spoof, ‘A Haunted House’ 2013-01-09T23:02:47Z And if your big idea is New York City, you’re probably better off underplaying it than going all out like the Grill, where they all but park a Checker cab next to your table. Lost in New York at Public Kitchen 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z And we are better off with this careful account of their master. Muppet Magic Probed in New Baiography of Jim Henson 2013-09-25T16:23:56Z That your child will be better off because you stayed home? This new mom has a choice: Go back to work or stay at home 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Her two friends decide that they too may be better off in a town where, as one puts it, “everyone is eating and no one is ashamed.” | 'Hot in Cleveland': Valerie Bertinelli and Friends Meet Betty White 2010-06-15T22:49:00Z Shortly into my slow, bumpy drive down a rocky road, I realized that I’d have been far better off renting a four-by-four. At Basin and Range National Monument, Landscapes, Art and Aliens 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The rest of us are much better off for it. Review: ‘Full House’ Sequel Is a Forced March Down Memory Lane 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z With, say, a 7-month job that ended due to a large-scale, non-performance layoff you are better off to list it than hide it. How Long Should Someone Stay at a Job? 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Are you better off having more stuff and more access to certain things, but you don't get to stop working? Hari Kondabolu: "It works in the interest of those with power" to divide people of color 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Some things, on the other hand, are probably better off staying lost. Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature by Rick Gekoski – review 2013-06-29T08:00:54Z Of her husband, Ms. Lane added, “Burton loved Daisy, and at first blush he might have killed anyone who suggested the musical would be better off focusing on another character.” Theater: ?On a Clear Day? Now Centers on the Psychiatrist 2011-11-27T05:27:19Z When life is down, people think changing partners will help – but I'm not convinced anyone is better off in the long run. The secrets of long-term love 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z They might be better off in less competitive environments or in schools with a wider range of student abilities. ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: Angst Before High School 2011-08-16T14:33:25Z Do you think that the world would be better off if humans actually succeeded in reversing the curse of Babel? Elvish, Klingon and Esperanto?Why Do We Love To Invent Languages? 2011-11-16T10:00:27Z Webb dismissed the idea that he would have been better off had he received a percentage of earnings from the movie of “The Graduate.” Charles Webb, author of ‘The Graduate,’ dies in England 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z The first question to ask is whether we are financially better off by being in Europe. Science funding and the EU: you've got to be in it to win it 2013-01-27T00:06:16Z He imagines that while middle-class kids like him “were training to be better off than their parents, poor kids were training to survive.” Out of Prison but Still Not Free 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Would we be better off flying in and out of Milan? 2010-01-13T16:25:00Z But general-audience movies like “Stranger Tides” may be better off the old-fashioned way. Hollywood Starts to Worry as 3-D Fizzles in U.S. 2011-05-29T19:04:07Z It just makes me sad for the kids, but I think it’s better off. ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ and addiction: It’s complicated 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z He knows most of my friends are of the opinion that the country would be better off without people who think like he does. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z In retrospect, it’s hard not to think that the young C.E.O. would have been better off keeping his word and choosing the sensible, moral journalist over the venture capitalists. Jill Abramson’s Book Charts Journalism’s Stormy Seas, With Some Personal Regrets and Score-Settling 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Woman seated next to me was no better off than I was. ‘Constellations,’ With Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, Opens on Broadway 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z You’ll be even better off if you focus on eating nutritious whole foods, because science suggests that this, rather than supplements, is the optimal way to get your nutrients. Perspective | Morning or night? With food or without? Answers to your questions about taking supplements. 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z A: Most artwork is shipped by plane, but with heavy pieces like furniture or ceramics, you’re better off shipping by boat. Q&A: The Art of Buying Art Worldwide 2012-10-26T23:30:02Z In speaking to merchants or sommeliers, you are better off staying general. No-Sweat Answers to Some Basic Wine Questions 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Such a potent actor would probably be better off portraying the younger Cogburn in some prequel; playing a weaker man does not suit him. True Grit ? review 2011-02-10T14:59:01Z If you want to find evidence that children are better off with parents who work, you will find it. This new mom has a choice: Go back to work or stay at home 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z But he turns out to be better off without it, since he’s forced to come up with excuses to wander around tiny Ardnakelty casually dropping Brendan’s name. Tana French’s Irish Western Features a Retired Lawman and a Missing Boy 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z But if the changes on the newer models are relatively minor, you might be better off taking the deal on the 2010. The Best Year-End Car Deals 2010-11-16T15:15:00Z He tells Granger's character, "Some people are better off dead - like your wife and my father, for instance." 1950s screen idol Farley Granger dead at 85 2011-03-29T13:20:05Z "I'm just saying, 'Can we be slightly less stupid, and we'll all be better off for it.'" In praise of ? Danny Dorling 2010-04-29T23:05:00Z However, research suggests minority groups in the United States tend to be better off in terms of mental health than white Americans. White people can’t hang: Black Americans may be more resilient to stress than white Americans 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Do you think one of them is better off than the other? Thomas McGuane on Small-Town America 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Instead, the saga has lost its way horribly, with Scott seemingly obsessed with explaining away elements of the Alien mythos that would have been better off remaining as tantalising slivers of enigma. Never go back: why the Terminator reunion may be a recipe for failure 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Europe, u are better off w/o Brits! Celebrities Express Their Shock At U.K. Decision to Leave E.U. 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z To really do Barnum’s story justice, they would be better off making a horror movie. Hugh Jackman’s new film celebrates PT Barnum – but let’s not airbrush history 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z If you want an expert in, say, modern architecture, you’re probably better off looking elsewhere. Traveling Solo? How to Find a Local Guide 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Would I have been better off going to law school? Movie critics: Shut up already! 2010-04-15T19:55:00Z If you wanted to escape discovery and meet up with someone you shouldn’t, you’d be much better off in someplace like Brooklyn. Shadowing Jason Matthews, the Ex-Spy Whose Cover Identity Is Author 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z If you find any preexisting damage, you’re better off asking for a different car. Just picture this: Travel companies are eager to charge customers for damages Santorum dismissed the encyclical on similar grounds: “The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists.” The right’s science/religion hypocrisy: So now they want to leave science to the scientists 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z He explained the option of “an ankle joint fusion” which, he wrote, “may be difficult to achieve with standard technique and he may be better off using an external fixator”. How Comrade Ilizarov saved my leg 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Which raises the question, are you really better off graduating from a for-profit school if you end up carrying so much debt that you are almost bound to default? Can’t a capitalist be moral? 2012-06-17T22:00:00Z Megan struggles to juggle the commitment she made by marrying him, her fear of losing him and the ever-present thought that maybe she’d be better off without him. ArtsBeat: ‘Mad Men’ Watch: Switching Positions 2014-05-12T14:22:36Z You’re better off at a midpoint that allows easy access to each resort. Multi-Mountain Passes Upended the American Ski Trip. Here Are 9 Rules. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Now, I realise, it's almost the very definition of a book that would have been better off staying in the library. Rereading Stephen King: week 17 – Cycle of the Werewolf 2013-03-07T12:02:36Z They are better off dead than living any other way. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z Lance, having realized he is better off without Brooke and has been doing better on his own, turns her down. A guide to "The Other Two" before jumping into the zany HBO Max comedy's new season 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z "Is it bad to be bossy when one is the boss?" was the question she asked, and answered by saying women would be better off if we stopped thinking of ourselves as a "minority group". Lennie Goodings: 'Virago survived because it's a brand with a philosophy' 2013-07-20T07:30:01Z Quinn’s would-be very loving building manager – chucked out with the empty beer cans — is undoubtedly better off without him. 'Homeland' Recap: Has Carrie Turned Evil? 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z While, on one hand, they'd honestly be better off without her, this just says so much about the kind of woman she is. "Ozark" is back to close out its final season 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z I countered to Clara, “In some ways the courtesans were better off than we are. They had the leisure to write. Their time wasn’t taken up having children, or working, or managing households.” My mentor, Anaïs Nin 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Also taught me that guys are always better off with the younger, hotter chicks. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: When Trump goes to the movies 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z But too often there’s a pervasive sense that unpleasantness is better off not seen or heard or, if possible, felt at all. I couldn’t be their “happy girl”: Pixar’s “Inside Out,” childhood depression and the emotional stranglehold of “Minnesota nice” 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Some people are just better off being sold into slavery. Taken recap: 'Would the world be a better place if Liam Neeson hadn't gone to all that trouble to save his daughter?' 2013-07-19T12:34:00Z “My child, if you spend as much money on cookbooks as you do on dictionaries, your family would be better off,” Mrs. Gordon, in an interview with The Associated Press last year, recalled her saying. Bernice Gordon, Who Toyed With Words, Dies at 101 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Most of us no longer live in a society where every encounter with the opposite sex is a match-making moment – and how much better off we are for that. I can’t come to terms with my boyfriend’s female friendships | Dear Mariella 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Though even her beloved little brother thinks Adunni may be better off married than staying at home, she is anything but welcome in her new family, her elder co-wife declaring her a “husband snatcher.” In Rural Nigeria, a Heroine Who Wants to Be Defined by More Than Marriage 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Find another host who truly gets that, and both the Oscars and the audience will be better off. What Do the Oscars Gain by Losing a Host? 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z But if given the chance to renew villages in a sustainable way, rural people would be better off, he argues. Architecture: Wang Shu of China Advocates Sustainable Architecture 2012-08-09T15:29:52Z On closer examination, many discovered they would be better off with severance packages and on benefits. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z Maybe if everybody talked to their moms about this we’d be better off. ‘We want everybody’s attention on this’: A new exhibit on climate change aims to hit home. 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Something tells me I’d be better off not making pronouncements like that. Bad girls, big trouble: The self-destructive young woman as feminist archetype 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Though DeSilva never outright says it, we humans probably would be better off on all fours. Perspective | Walking was freedom in lockdown. Three books show us why it’s so much more. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z As soon as they bury their son, everyone agrees that it’s “best not to mention it. Best not to dwell on it. . . . Some things were better off left unsaid.” Review | Is the end of an American dynasty a real tragedy? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Bessell later testified that he had been privy to discussions in which Thorpe insisted he would be better off if Scott were simply killed. ‘Sex, Cash and Death’: The Story Behind ‘A Very English Scandal’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z "You'd be better off addressing the underlying causes of being lonely first – what's stopping you going out and seeing people?" asks Challis. Loneliness: a silent plague that is hurting young people most 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z All of this maneuvering obscures a larger question about the news in New Orleans: Are readers better off now than they were when the Picayune was winning Pulitzers for its Katrina reporting? In New Orleans, a journalistic experiment with unclear results 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z "You are an amazing doctor but for some reason they thought they were better off with you — during a war." 'The Night Shift,' NBC's new hospital drama, does no harm 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Still, perhaps I was better off at my place. Frugal Traveler: Budget-Friendly and (Almost) Dracula-Free Transylvania 2014-01-27T20:22:08Z “There is a huge capital cost that has a drag on operations. But more importantly, we would be far better off allowing others to have those works of art who might enjoy them.” Clean House to Survive? Museums Confront Their Crowded Basements 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Silver-plated items, unless you are into the shabby-chic look, are not much in demand right now, and they are usually better off donated to a thrift shop — when they reopen. Clutter into cash: How to sell all those old DVDs, Legos and other unwanted items sitting at home 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z She might be better off taking the next plane back, she thought. Quality Control: a short story by Edwidge Danticat But I wonder if it can maintain that balance going forward, or if I’m better off watching the show twice, fast-forwarding through a different half of it each time. The Good Wife, Up All Night, and the Spinoff-Within-a-Show 2011-10-18T13:44:24Z Anyone who hasn’t learned that lesson is better off sticking with reruns of “Friends.” Festival Dispatch: Life Lessons from Larry David 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z We would all be Mark in Hnath’s construct, thinking Hillary would be better off without Bill. Review | This new Broadway play about the Clintons’ marriage is as fascinating — and sad — as you’d expect 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z He believes they would all have been better off without a father. ‘We didn’t recognise that he was dangerous’: our father killed our mother and sister 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z If you want to say a proper goodbye to this series of "X-Men" movies, you're better off spending your time on "Logan" again than "Dark Phoenix" for the first time. "Dark Phoenix" is an unworthy X-Men finale 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Wouldn't I be better off approaching a local rancher and asking if he or she happened to have an old cow around? Can we learn to love old (and more sustainable) beef? 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z She was together with Powell for more than 40 years and had learned enough before him to decide they were better off never marrying. Diane di Prima, Beat poet and activist, dead at 86 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z He also says that I’m better off without him. Ask Amy: Should this optimist stay with her depressed partner? Still, the average county resident is better off and better educated than most Floridians, and the sense of grievance among Republicans, while real, lacks the populist edge that has helped fuel Gingrich's campaign. Romney vs. Gingrich is a fight for GOP's direction 2012-01-29T02:23:00Z Helen thinks everyone is fighting to get her out, but it's one of those cases where you go to prison and everyone else is much better off with you inside. The Dead Boss guide to TV prison 2012-06-08T23:06:00Z The man she asked was a little better off than she, which wasn’t saying much. More than an assistant: The story of Martin Luther King Jr.’s first secretary 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z So even if Los Angeles and Washington had general directors in the office every day, it is not clear that they would be any better off financially. 2010-01-13T22:49:00Z In his “Reality Hunger” review, Wood went on to list plot devices serious fiction is usually better off without: “coincidence, eavesdropping, melodramatic reversals, kindly benefactors, cruel wills.” An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z “Everyone is better off,” Mr. Weinstein told The New York Times from Paris, on vacation with his family. The Men (and Women) Who Would Be Halston 2011-09-03T03:16:49Z We never really knew that bounty hunter and, as it turns out, the show may have been better off maintaining his mystery. "Obi-Wan Kenobi" reminds us that the Force is not always with us...and that's fine! 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z The Irish Catholic church would have been much better off trying to separate church and state. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z If you want a satisfying resolution, you’re better off watching crime fiction. True Crime and the Satisfaction of the Unsolved Mystery 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z By all available evidence and for multiple reasons, if not quite a million, these friends would be better off without each other. Review: ‘A Million Little Things’ Gets Few of Those Things Right 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Combined with Glenn's presumably deteriorating mental state and Rick's other plans to wrest control of the town away from Deanna, it does actually seem like the town would be better off without them. 'The Walking Dead' recap: Ruining revolving doors for everyone 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z American leaders should also read this book to learn how much better off we have been and could continue to be in concert with a continent of free, secure and prosperous allies. Europe’s Glorious Years of Peace and Prosperity 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z And yet surely, overall, Britons have been made happier and better off by the political and economic emancipations of the 20th century. Back from the Brink by Peter Snowdon; Red Tory by Phillip Blond 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Concluding that the host college, the University of St. Andrews, was primarily after “publicity,” Mullan suggested the attendees would be better off forgetting kids’ books and cultivating their gravitas. Majoring in Potterology 2012-05-25T19:20:00Z On the show, you spend a lot of time addressing your privilege, the fact that you’re much better off than most transgender people. Caitlyn Jenner on Privilege, Reality TV and Deciding to Come Out 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Was I better off keeping my compliments to myself? Perspective | Ask Amy: Extrovert stresses he is not a stalker 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z In London, property is so expensive that you are better off building an extension to your house. Tate Modern Announces Opening Date for New Extension 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z He’s a great guy, but I think we’d be better off as friends. Blind date: ‘I wish it had been on a Friday: I’d have liked more cocktails’ 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z You could ask whether they might be better off being honest with themselves, just as you could ask whether Jack couldn’t make a simpler living by selling some nice encyclopedias. ‘Hello Tomorrow!’ Review: It’s Only a Paper Moon 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z When pressed on the meaning behind the label’s name, Mancuso matched Aristotle Onassis’s discretion and simply demurred, “The answer to that question is quite fascinating, but it’s better off kept private.” Basics Instinct 2010-08-26T19:06:00Z We don't trust the government to regulate media here, and we've long been better off for it. The iPhone That Rocks: pirate radio in your pocket 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z But she did ask questions ranging from whether the country is better off economically to whether respect for the country is eroding around the world. Trump blasts Oprah over 60 Minutes episode 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z In effect, the filmmaker tells the world, she’s better off without me. What’s Missing from the Brilliant “Marriage Story” 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Her mother decided she would be better off doing that than being in therapy. Whether Dancing or Still, the Body in ‘Ema’ Tells the Story 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z But a lot of the work Mr. Kohn had hoped to generate didn’t materialize, and he decided he would be better off on his own. Eugene Kohn, Architect of Skyscraping Ambitions, Dies at 92 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Forché tells him that he would be better off enlisting a journalist to document what is happening in his country. A Poet Remembers Her Impulsive Trip Into a Civil War 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z He was better off painting and continuing his day job collecting rents, a post he held until retirement in 1952. LS Lowry at Tate Britain: glimpses of a world beyond 2013-06-24T17:26:28Z If you look at actual population metrics at the moment, we tend to be better off than we’d ever been in terms of life expectancy, general health. Here’s why Tinder makes you happy — until it makes you miserable 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Following what used to be stage-to-screen protocol, Shanley has also made the mistake of “opening up” a story that was better off shut down. Bumps on the Road From Broadway to Hollywood 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Can he really believe that the world’s poor would be better off if the norms, expectations and constraints of the American-led rule-based international order were scrapped? Pankaj Mishra Challenges America’s Self-Deceptions 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z What gives Parajuly's characters warmth is an energy born of division or dispossession: a desire to be loved, to be better off, or to be elsewhere. The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly – review 2013-01-25T22:55:01Z Advertisement Advertisement When your primary carrier is giving you little or no mileage for travel on a partner airline, you’re often better off crediting your flight to the partner airline. Decoding Airline Fare Classes to Make the Most of Your Miles 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z In this ridiculous analogy, you’re better off skipping the trough completely and growing your own apples in an orchard somewhere, preferably someplace quiet, where Martin Shkreli can never find you. Shkreli, Kanye and Trump: a most heinous trinity not worthy of our hatred 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z “Hey, Bill, did you write something about Billy, saying that the Yankees were better off with him in the TV booth than the dugout?” The night the New York Yankees manager wanted to kick my ass 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z "They decided they would be better off as friends." Sarah Hyland gets restraining order against ex-boyfriend Matt Prokop 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z They all soon agree they were all better off without the wall. This Season’s Breakout Star: The Border 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z If you can't handle her fantastically nonchalant warbletones you're better off making a cup of tea for the tune's duration; but also think about where your life's headed because the signs, frankly, are not good. Singles out this week 2010-04-30T23:21:00Z “If you want him to run for president, you’re better off hoping he loses by a point.” Beto O’Rourke gets more attention than any other 2018 candidate. Will it translate to votes? 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z We are better off focusing on compassionately listening to each other, with as little judgment as possible. Perspective | My husband and I disagree about what is safe for our toddler. How can we find common ground? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z And Julie’s disturbing passivity, too, is challenged by her friends, who insist that she would be better off without him. A ride on a ‘Carousel’ is just the ticket right now 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z But, I’ve turned things around at work and I recognize I am better off without him. Must I repay the jerk? 2012-11-29T01:00:00Z I don’t want to be dismissive, but I couldn’t help wondering whether he’d have been better off positioning himself outside Hampstead tube instead of a mainline railway station. My husband’s boasts are worse since Brexit – and I can’t stand it | Dear Mariella 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z In that way, maybe many of us would be better off acting like Milton. The best takeaway from this season of "Love Is Blind"? Act like Milton 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z She argued a newbie director would be better off using the money to finance a couple of extra shooting days. ‘Project Greenlight’ Gives Rookie Director a Hollywood Education 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Instead of icing to reduce inflammation, athletes might be better off letting it run its course. Why icing a sprain doesn’t help, and could slow recovery 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z But Scharf’s brightly tinted constellations seem to suggest that each newborn might be better off on another planet. It's the Kenny Scharf show: Junked TVs as a painter's canvas 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Why would human beings engage in procrastination if it weren’t somehow making them better off? Procrastination rules 2012-07-02T01:00:00Z You can’t help but root for the characters, even if they are perhaps better off spending time apart. 8 Comic Books in Honor of Pride 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z You may be better off trying this quiche instead, as it has half the amount of saturated fat as the Coronation Quiche. Coronation Quiche is outrageously expensive to make. Here are cheaper and healthier options 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. Hare v Kinnock 2010-04-12T19:00:00Z Or as Powell puts it briskly "We weren't much better off than serfs." Maid in England 2011-08-19T21:55:04Z Maybe, he implies, we’d all be better off if we could dial back the partisan outrage and learn to take a joke. Al Franken Has Been Sitting on Jokes for a Decade. Now He’s Ready to Tell Them. 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z “If we all engaged with our own animal instincts more, we’d be better off.” The Charming, Disgusting Paintings of Tala Madani 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z According to Gallup, fraternity and sorority members will end up better off financially, and more likely to start businesses than other college graduates. Fraternity Misogyny Goes on Long After Graduation 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z There was a moment late in season two when I felt like everyone was now better off. How we made Parks and Recreation, by Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman and Mike Schur 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z It is possible to glue marble, but you might be better off getting a new piece, especially if the stone broke into several pieces. How to restore a carved wooden door 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z OK, yes, on a purely environmental basis we’d all be better off giving up our cars and our electricity and living in yurts. The problem with sanctimonious environmentalists: their boring absolutism 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Are their chefs and independent owners better off? Is New York Too Expensive for Restaurateurs? We Do the Math 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z And by ignoring the human cost of government job losses, he said, Republicans are only following a maxim of campaign politics: "When something works against you, you're better off not talking about it." GOP slams Obama over new jobless figures 2011-12-03T02:31:00Z Like a high school crush, we were once in love, have since moved on, and are better off for it. 11 pandemic food trends we are so over 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z One question asked if society is better off if people made these goals a priority. Is marriage becoming obsolete for millennials? 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Scotland was better off telling its own stories than it was just repeating the story of victimhood at the hands of the English that it loved so much – too much. Scotland should not be wasting time on blaming the English any more 2012-12-21T19:00:00Z It’s an uncommon episode of television that halfway through leaves you realizing that the protagonist probably would have been better off had he been killed in the opening scene. 'Outlander' Recap: The Violence That Men Do 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z "You're always better off playing up the comedic aspects of your past, blending the light in with the dark and turning grief into laughter." Apathy for the Devil: A 1970s Memoir by Nick Kent | Book review 2010-03-27T00:08:00Z “To the millions of people with significant disabilities currently leading fulfilling, rich lives, it posits that they are better off committing suicide.” Disability rights group criticizes casting of Alec Baldwin as blind character 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z He treats Anne Frank as the living embodiment of ambivalence: Is she really better off alive when the story of her death has become so cherished? Books of The Times: ?Hope: A Tragedy? by Shalom Auslander - Review 2012-01-17T23:18:49Z And Finally: Wouldn’t the NFL be better off paying most players to shut up than fining a few for not talking? Zoo to elephant activists: You wanted them moved, right? 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z But for something like this, you’re probably better off calling in another contractor to fix the problem before it leads to further damage — assuming, of course, that the damage isn’t already extensive. Gap over windows should not allow water to get inside 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z He may imagine that we are better off figuring out for ourselves the true nature of the Dream and what it means to be engaged in meaningful struggle. Review: ‘Between the World and Me,’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z When the divisions, Ford and Lincoln-Mercury, were led by powerful men the company was better off. Who's Running General Motors? 2010-03-26T17:00:00Z We would all be better off if the Puppy Bowl were less produced and was instead just dogs being adorable goofs. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Hakeem’s better off soaking up hand-me-down career opportunities from his dad, and Mirage à Trois’s dime-store Pussycat Dolls act is wearing thin. ‘Empire’ Season 2, Episode 7: ‘True Love Never’ 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z I want to be reminded why I’m better off at home. Welcome to Paradise. You May Want to Catch the Next Flight Home. 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z The Jews were better off in exile, he wrote, “Instead of protesting his visitor-status in gentile lands, or, more precisely, in the military camps of the diaspora, the Jew should welcome it.” Eminent man of letters George Steiner dead at age 90 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Nor does he spare his own liberal class, the “meritocracy” of the best educated and better off, which he fingers ever so gently as deepening the divide between urban and rural, elites and “deplorables.” Fareed Zakaria Looks at Life After the Pandemic 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z In truth, you might be better off sticking with the book. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Oratorio’ and ‘Dexter: New Blood’ 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Amy, I wholeheartedly agreed with your entire response until you got to the end of your answer where you suggested that "K" might be better off joining a fraternity. Perspective | Ask Amy: Family wrestles with accusation of racism 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z “I thought she would be a lot better off without me,” he said. Redux: Older, Wiser and Still Very Much in Love 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z I come from a two-parent household, so even though everything wasn't sunny and palm trees every day, I was a little better off than a lot of people that I was growing up with. Shanequa Benitez: how I started dealing drugs 2013-03-30T23:00:00Z Today’s parents are keen to spend “quality time” with kids who might be better off left to their own devices – and I don’t mean the electronic kind. Scary toddlers and super creeps – helicopter parenting and the rise of 'kindergarten horror' 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z "The more educated you are about a given hotel, the better off you're going to be." Fifteen Travel Scams To Avoid 2010-04-09T20:00:00Z In the brilliant documentary The Barkley Marathons: The Race that Eats Its Young, one competitor in the 100-mile race puts it more bluntly: “Most people would be better off with more pain in their lives.” When 26 miles just isn't enough – the phenomenal rise of the ultramarathon 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z I understand that I’m better off than a lot of people in that I have anything set aside for retirement. ‘I have about $80’: how eight people spend their money during lockdown 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z But maybe men, in TV and life, would be better off letting go of some old ideas of masculinity. High Manxiety 2011-05-26T07:10:00Z The Visit struggled in its first full week of previews, grossing less than a third of its potential, and The Heidi Chronicles found itself only marginally better off, but after six weeks of performances. Broadway Box Office 4/5: Disney Dominates Easter Weekend 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Surprisingly enough, it fits; you might be better off seeing “Hara-Kiri” while not knowing about Miike’s other work. Pick of the week: A moody samurai answer to Batman 2012-07-20T00:00:00Z The people of eastern Ecuador, however, are still no better off. Murky truth 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Only 16 percent said they felt the city was better off, while 17 percent said Chicago was worse off. Chicagoans like Rahm, with reservations 2012-05-15T05:00:00Z I really think she was better off the road. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Avoidance of getting driver’s license may put marriage at crossroads 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z I think society would be better off if we were energy independent, if we secure our borders, free market capitalism in the healthcare system, not a top-down heavy system. A Minute With: Sean Hannity on 'disconcerting' election, matchmaking 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z It also makes you buy seeds for vegetables that you're probably better off buying as seedlings. Seeds vs. plants: A buying guide for vegetable gardeners 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z We'd all be better off if Willis took a vacation from this character for good. Review: The latest `Die Hard' movie simply won't 2013-02-13T22:46:05Z “Savages”: Oliver Stone, back on drugs at last Topics: , Oliver Stone, Savages, Thrillers Oliver Stone is a puzzling phenomenon, but on balance we’re better off having him than not having him. “Savages”: Oliver Stone, back on drugs at last 2012-07-05T21:15:00Z OK, I will grant you: it felt like a forced heightening of the action and a wildly dramatic left turn and we were probably better off without it. Return to the Scene of the Crime: FNL Season 2, Reconsidered 2012-08-15T13:01:14Z “Once he gets through it, he’s better off. I imagine him on a beach in Hawaii, renting surfboards. ‘How did you end up with this life?’ Lee Pace Came Out Seven Times a Week. Then He Came Out for Real. 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Indeed, she might have been better off starting there, as some of the earlier chapters seem almost like digressions. Sylvia Nasar's 'Grand Pursuit' devalued by errors 2011-09-07T20:10:05Z Perhaps, though, this is an attribute one is better off without when serving Nazism or in an era when goalkeepers dived headlong in crowded goalmouths. Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend by Catrine Clay 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Its redoubtable heroine realises her community is better off outside both official control and heartless modern capitalism. Chinese writers avoiding key issues amid censorship fears, says author 2013-02-06T13:11:00Z Or would they be better off reserving now for later in the winter? Frugal Traveler: Too Late to Book a Holiday Getaway? Not Necessarily 2013-12-05T21:30:05Z Frankly the devil is better off without the likes of the simple-minded Jabez. 2010-01-13T22:54:00Z The worse women have it, the better off they are. Addiction’s shrinking gender gap 2013-03-11T22:30:00Z “If an attack is going to happen at an airport, it’s likely going to be where there are crowds, so you’re better off staying away from these spots as much as possible,” he said. How to Stay Safe at the Airport 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z “We are definitely better off not wearing heels or wearing them as little as possible.” Why this orthopedic surgeon insists women should ‘sit like a man’ 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Are people better off outsourcing part of the cooking process with a subscription that sends pre-portioned ingredients in the exact quantities needed for each recipe? Cooking from meal boxes can cut household food waste by 38%: research 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Clearly, though, Gibbs is better off with fake gun noises than being on either side of one. Rapper Freddie Gibbs heats up the Fillmore Silver Spring with virtuosic craft 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z My role was to keep the peace, to somehow quiet her refrain that we’d all be better off without her. Modern Love: Ready to Take a Faithful Leap 2011-07-14T20:19:03Z We began to wonder whether we would be better off buying a new chair, although we cringed at the wastefulness of sending this one to the dump. Reupholster or replace? It’s not an easy answer. 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Neither country’s fate has been ideal, but India is easily more democratic, stable and better off. Divide and rue 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The pop charts, and my summer playlists, are better off. A Secret Ingredient in Songs of Summer 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z In crowded cities especially, authorities made the case that improved living conditions for the poor would leave everyone better off. Using the Law to Fight Epidemics, for Better and Worse 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z And I think viewers are better off for that. CNN’s Brian Stelter reflects on “The View” venom and leaving Trump out of “The Morning Show” 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z At home, no one ever suggested she’d be “better off as a lawyer or a doctor,” she said. Winning a BAFTA? Just One of Joanna Scanlan’s Career Surprises. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The Dari film industry is better off than the Pashto movie world. Defying the Taliban, one (bad) movie at a time 2010-06-19T16:02:00Z “Asylum” would be better off if Briarcliff Manor had more furniture for them to chew. Television Review: ‘American Horror Story’ on FX Begins Second Season 2012-10-16T23:27:18Z You are better off having short, recurring talks about rules and boundaries than trying to have one big talk. Perspective | What rules should parents put in place when they allow children to have tech devices? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Given the four-story nature of your home, you might be better off just calling a plumber to evaluate your system as a whole. How to update a stone-facade fireplace 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z But diners would be better off making a party of fish or fowl. Toro Toro: a steakhouse where you shouldn’t order the steak They would have been a lot better off to have shown it before the election. “Trump has ‘f**k-you’ money”: Mark McKinnon on the appeal of outsider candidates, Clinton’s primary strategy and potential Iowa surprises 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The other way that cultural attitudes toward Down syndrome hurt us is through the assumption that individuals with Down syndrome and their families would be better off not living at all. Motherlode Blog: Has Down Syndrome Hurt Us? 2011-10-03T17:10:54Z And she argued that doing so is also a healthier model for children, most of whom would be better off with a little less time in their parents’ spotlight. Modern Love: Good Enough? That’s Great 2014-01-31T21:20:45Z Is disability something you are better off learning to accept as a limitation or struggling to rise above? Review: In a Teenage Take on ‘Richard III,’ Now Is the Prom of Our Discontent 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z “It reinforced that the more we work together, the better off we’ll be,” Pressman says. Coalition of interests extends beyond festival for originating theaters 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z So beautifully done of two truly admirable people--who left our nation so much better off than they found it. Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Often while watching one of these shows he'll point to the screen, look at me and say, "No matter what, we're at least better off than that." Is "The Tinder Swindler" one of those true crime tales that might strengthen relationships? 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Boyd noted in the release about the survey that "the vast majority of Americans — 7 in 10 — believe the country would be better off if we prayed for each other." Faith in America isn't dead: 'Strong thread of spirituality' in nation, new survey finds 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z "It was at that meeting that Cohen told Sally and her mother, 'You're better off leaving Camden, changing your names and starting life over again,'" she says. Sally Horner was “The Real Lolita”: The 1948 crime that inspired Nabokov 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z He also took credit for introducing Woody Allen and Mia Farrow — before it became something better off denied. Remembering a relentless publicist, never too proud to beg 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The same cannot be said for most unknown unknowns, which are probably better off lost. Lost literature: the unknown unknowns 2010-04-07T12:46:00Z She reaffirmed her comments in the book that Whitney Houston would have been better off without him. Whitney Houston's mother has words for Bobby Brown 2013-01-28T21:35:13Z Season 2 of this poetic, unpredictable show is now streaming, and while it’s easy to zip through in a sitting, you’re better off savoring it. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z His pre-pickling experience of the world was hard and bitter, leavened only by the hope that future generations of Greenbaums would be better off. ‘An American Pickle’ Review: Keeping It Kosher 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z “I think I was better off not knowing the challenges,” she said. How 30 Blocks Became 30 Years 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z But on balance he has decided he’s better off in Madrid. Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z The notion, fashionable in radical circles, that Afghan women are better off without American protection or influence is one that Hyneman is particularly keen to contest. Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z But I’m with Olivier Knox on this: As citizens, we’re better off with the briefings, bad as they are. Perspective | Trump-era press briefings are exercises in futility — and lying. But we need them anyway. 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z He noted that perhaps consumers would be better off basing their selection on qualities and features before looking at price. 7 things you think you know about money — that are actually completely untrue 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z If so, that's one very delicate bird we're dealing with – a jumpy, neurotic creature that is probably better off ignored altogether. Denzel Washington and the strange case of a very confusing clarification 2013-02-26T18:33:55Z Further 83% agreed blacks would be better off taking advantage of the opportunities available rather than protesting. Myths about Martin Luther King Jr. damage and diminish his legacy 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z For real excitement and emotion you’d be better off watching “America’s Best Dance Crew” on MTV.com, where there’s less corny dialogue and hokey contrivance to get in the way of the moves. | 'Step Up 3D': Moose and Camille Return in Another Dance Story 2010-08-05T23:53:00Z That's why to those of us who admire what she does so well, the idea that she might be "better off" talking to people instead of dispensing headlines isn't news at all. Goodbye to Katie Couric, "perky" news anchor? 2011-04-04T20:05:00Z “We made the decision as a group that we were better off isolating in a small town with each other and continuing to do our work, keep our employment alive and our sanity,” he said. Two Projects Are Filming Again. Here’s How They’re Doing It. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Instead of trying to disable a Barnacle or a wheel clamp, you’re better off taking pictures of the scene and fighting the fine later. Perspective | What to do about parking violations on vacation 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z And wouldn't Richmond be better off with someone more competent at the helm? The many betrayals of "Ted Lasso" 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Maybe I would’ve been better off in the 1970s, when a young person with ambitions like mine had to take a hard job as a means to his artistic ends. Riff: ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ 2013-01-06T08:07:03Z You suffer a little now, understanding that in the long, geological timeframe of late night, you will ultimately be better off. Jaypocalypse 2: This Time It’s Different? 2013-03-21T14:01:10Z Wouldn't I be better off, I catch myself musing, simply returning to the tried and true? Oprah goes classic: A good idea? 2011-01-08T06:00:00Z But “in the contemporary world most people are better off in most ways when compared to any prior generation.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z He was arrested and charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct in downtown Nashville: The incident was an inspiration for the song “Dangerous,” where he warns himself he’s better off not going out. Morgan Wallen’s Small-Town Country Songs, Aimed at a Big Audience 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z But he was better off with the band, and he was saving musicianly exploits for the set’s homestretch. Music Review: Allen Stone at S.O.B.?s - Review 2011-11-10T22:29:19Z In the words of Lemony Snicket: “If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.” Review: ‘Black Edge,’ an Account of a Hedge Fund Magnate and Insider Trading 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Is there a single character on the show who wouldn’t be better off if Lucious were dead? ‘Empire’ Season 3, Episode 4: A Night at the Opera 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z On the face of it, Ngaba is better off than many of its counterparts, she observes. ‘Eat the Buddha’ Reports From the ‘World Capital of Self-Immolations’ 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z But maybe the planet would be better off without us. Want to see Alaska’s wilderness up close? The UnCruise goes where the big cruise ships can’t. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z But are you better off, considering that hotels and flights cost more now, too? How to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Deciding she was better off alone, she said, “I was free to wallow in my malaise, and nurse myself without seeing the disappointment in his face.” Padma Lakshmi Opens Up About Rushdie in Memoir 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and Persia is no better off in Waterwell’s version of this Shakespeare tragedy, performed in English and Farsi. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z He said Romney should be judged on the basis of whether "on balance, were people better off or worse off by this style of management." Romney brushes off rivals' criticism in debate 2012-01-08T03:57:00Z Research from 2014 found that employees with hostile bosses are better off when they respond with passive aggression. You're not alone: how to survive your horrible boss 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z All things being equal, Mabanckou argues, orphans are a lot better off with fewer wild adventures and more stable homes. Alain Mabanckou's 'Black Moses' is an orphan story with biting humor 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Rather than returning the pieces to Villa Giulia, culture officials decided the two vessels were better off in Cerveteri, near the sites from which they had been illegally excavated. In Rome, a New Museum for Recovered Treasures Before They Return Home 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z You’ll be so much better off in the long run if you find the courage to do the latter. How Do I Stop Wanting to Cheat? 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z He found notes to himself, written in his own hand, that he couldn't remember writing, notes that suggested he was better off killing himself. Rereading Stephen King: week 17 – Cycle of the Werewolf 2013-03-07T12:02:36Z After all, might they not still be better off if they hadn’t been adopted?” Why Dylan Farrow’s adoption matters 2014-02-11T12:45:00Z But we are better off knowing for sure who Melania is and what she stands for. We needed to hear Melania Trump say "Who gives a f*ck about Christmas" 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z When they continue to ring, he boards up doors and holes up with a pistol when he might be better off calling for an exorcism. Collection of scenes in 'Private Number' don't add up 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Like me, he was travelling, though perhaps a bit better off because he had laundry. Where are the women Kerouacs? 2013-03-13T22:28:00Z There will be people among them who would be better off taking aspirin and those who will be worse. Bitter pill: why aspirin is not such a wonder drug 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z But, at Yale, Vance learns that he’s better off hiding the details of his upbringing. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z If you ask me – and if you also promise I won’t be fired from writing more cookbooks for chefs– you’re better off looking to another sort of food professional for advice on roasting chicken. How to roast a chicken? The answers are horrifying 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z He may imagine that we are better off figuring out for ourselves the true nature of the Dream and what it means to be engaged in meaningful Struggle. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Some of it would be better off not there, and the rest allowed to breathe. TV review: The Angelos Epithemiou Show 2012-07-20T17:48:43Z As a matter of preparation, the death-minded aren’t necessarily better off, since they are so unlikely to predict their manner of departure. Meeting Death with Words 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Weren’t we better off knowing a little bit less, a little less often, about everyone else? Cultural Studies: T.M.I.: I Don?t Want to Know 2012-02-10T23:24:11Z “We accept many forms of payment and are definitely better off for it,” he says. Arcadia Mobile Market, Washington’s farm stand on wheels And when both moral and emotional development are taken into account, the notion that low-income parents, in contrast to better off parents, are the ones that need help is even farther from the truth. Motherlode Blog: Are Poor Parents Poorer at Parenting? 2011-09-20T16:36:51Z “My biggest qualification is the knowledge which comes only with experience. A doctor can explain the biology, but if you want an attractive physique you’re better off learning from a bodybuilder than an overweight doctor.” Taboo-busting sex guide offers advice to Muslim women seeking fulfilling love lives 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z “Your daughter is better off without you,” he says. House Watch: Throwing Up Blood, Again 2012-01-31T15:00:30Z Somewhat romantically, he thought you’d be much better off living in a wigwam, like the indigenous native Americans. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z They could be the first women in showbiz to come out of an encounter with Weinstein better off than they went in. Harvey Weinstein came off badly from his surprise appearance - but the audience came off worse | Steve Rose 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Maureen asks if we would be better off in the trees, prompting Derek to suggest that we would be better off in the trees. In Colorado, three generations achieve a peaceful family vacation at high elevation 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Most of them were better off than he. Perspective | We’re all alone. So let’s get lost in these paintings of parties. 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z She just wants him to be like her: better off without it. The Hard Sell: The Windows Phone 2013-01-05T00:06:18Z Rather than chase after a novelist for speaking at a seminar, the Delhi government would be better off investigating the 100-plus people who are believed to have died in violence in Kashmir since June. Arundhati Roy: The debater of big things 2010-10-27T23:01:00Z She suggested many would be better off increasing their fund-raising efforts. It’s Official: Many Orchestras Are Now Charities 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z "Time Warner must decide if it is better off with HBO as part of the cable bundle — or not part of it," DiClemente said. Time Warner focuses on its growth strategy for HBO 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Other onscreen love triangles have also heavily implied that the person at the center of the triangle would be better off choosing themselves, and shown how romantic conflicts are often manifestations of deeper inner conflicts. From "Twilight" to "Never Have I Ever," here's what makes the greatest love triangles so potent 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax made a case “that our country will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites,” parroting the racist claim that immigrants are loud and dirty. The symbolic power of Gina Torres's new drama "Pearson," right now 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Instead of cribbing research from Wikipedia for papers that will probably only gather dust, advocates of the idea say students would be better off writing their own Wikipedia articles. Will Wikipedia replace the academic thesis? 2013-03-19T18:22:00Z Irrespective of your budget, Ms. Biggs Bradley said that to truly connect with nature, you’re better off staying in a simple camp where the accommodations may be minimally adorned canvas tents. How to Plan an African Safari 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z The tempo is unhurried, and the song saves some of its most affecting revelations — “it kind of makes me feel like maybe I was better off” — for its unsettling final moments. Lana Del Rey Takes a Road Trip Into the Past 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z And it directly addresses the season’s biggest flaw: Wouldn’t they all be better off without Lucious? ‘Empire’ Season 3, Episode 8: Fashion Show 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z And when a Colorado student wanted advice on whether she was better off singing a serious song from "Aida" or a funny one from "Cinderella," she was asked to sing both. 62 high school students hopeful of a musical crown 2013-06-29T17:31:45Z He says he “argued that we would be better off developing a policy well ahead of events that could overtake us.” Books of The Times: Rumsfeld?s Defense of Known Decisions 2011-02-03T23:04:15Z American cinema and the filmgoing audience would be better off with fewer Marvel titles flooding the entertainment space, certainly. "Loki" speaks to Marvel's biggest concern – if only the studio will heed it 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z In fact, if Trump could be persuaded to spend his entire term playing golf, we might all be better off. Lessons from Playing Golf with Trump 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z You couldn't help thinking that the programme-makers would have been better off forgetting the cod sociology and making a study in grief. TV review: The Private Life of Cows, In Loving Memory and Cook County Jail 2010-07-08T07:00:00Z But now, after a month of staying home, with Florida much better off than many of the models predicted, the governor is feeling bold. Does Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis know what he’s doing? We’re about to find out. 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z A lot of those people are better off that way. After 25 Years, How Well Has Madonna’s ‘Truth or Dare’ Aged? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z KM: Joanna was so disappointed in herself she thought, “Maybe these kids are better off without me.” A Family Drama in Three Acts 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z But some residents agree with the SNP that oil-rich Scots would be better off deciding themselves how to spend their money rather than being directed by lawmakers in distant London. Tale of two towns as Scottish independence shows social divide 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z The odd grubby sink probably won't be news, and if you spend your time worrying about it, then common sense would suggest that you'd be better off staying at home. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-08-04T07:00:00Z Clark believes the Weather Channel is better off trying to connect with the weather enthusiast who wants to get deeper into science and issues related to the physical world. Weather Channel wants to attract Weather Underground fans with new show 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Some owners may be better off setting up their own emergency-care fund for their animal companion to avoid the emotional and financial trap of unforeseen veterinary costs. Animal Doctor: Risks in sidestepping the pet insurance safety net 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z “I guess he’s better off now,” she sighed. Faith Ringgold Will Keep Fighting Back 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z If they managed their fortunes shrewdly, they were far better off, as they aged, than the lovers whom they had so blithely ruined. Good, Clean, Fun: A Revival of “Gigi” 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z To those not talking about food, it signifies trash, a mess, something you’re better off not inspecting too closely. Birria-Landia, a Queens Food Truck, Has Changed the Taco Landscape 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z More American kids would be better off with school lunch, however, says Food Research & Action Center’s Crystal FitzSimons, who notes that cafeteria meals are healthier than what an average parent packs. What’s for lunch? At some schools, everyone eats the same thing. 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Streaming TV offers creators more room to stretch, but this “Twilight Zone” would be better off keeping its tales to a firm 30 minutes. Review | ‘The Twilight Zone’ returns, in case anyone needed the extra anxiety right now 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z And with the planet getting hotter, we'd probably be better off following our European neighbors' example instead of wondering when they'll follow ours. Will record heat make Europe embrace the American ice cube? 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z We would have been better off just yelling, “Citizen’s arrest!” ‘S.N.L.’ Imagines the Impeachment Trial That Could Have Been 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Just to clear it up, I don't think they're better off if they don't win. BBC1's The Voice: Tom Jones says winning may not be the best thing 2013-03-23T00:01:04Z Most of the vineyard accommodation is fully booked for this year, so you would be better off hiring an RV or camping. Grape fun: wine harvest festivals 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z I stay up late at night thinking about another man, and wondering if I would be better off with him. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Your cold feet are meant for walking 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z But you’re probably better off not knowing anything in advance; otherwise your mind will be bending itself into pretzels trying to make connections with what you’ve seen before. Review: Exploring the Edge of Soap Opera in ‘Shadowland’ at La MaMa 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Whatever the reason, I think Season 4 would be better off without him. Why "Stranger Things" should have let Hopper stay dead 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z In this era of “limited” and “anthology” television series, would more shows be better off if they had kept things to one season? Step 1 to start loving ‘The Affair’: Admit there’s no such thing as truth 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Still, travelers are better off informing their hotels and asking for a fee waiver rather than letting the automatic penalty for a no-show to kick in. How the East Coast Storm Is Affecting Weekend Travel 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z You could technically drive from Gibsons to Lund and back in a single, long day, but you’re better off slowing down and enjoying what the coast has to offer. 4 British Columbia road trips to consider while the US-Canada border is open 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The young George Gershwin wanted to be Berlin's musical secretary, which involved writing down and playing back his ideas, and Berlin rejected him because he thought he'd be better off developing his own talent. Hershey Felder gives Irving Berlin one-man-play treatment at Geffen 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Bottom line: For efficiency, you’re better off when dismantled — not unlike the way a Thanksgiving turkey benefits from similar treatment. Lobster’s cheap. Lobster’s luxurious. Discuss. Mr. Harrison and Mr. Diggs have always worked this way, so they are better off than most: They own the rights to their archives, which continue to bring in revenue. What Do the Paparazzi Do When the Stars Are Quarantined? 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z “I think the more we move away from that term, the better off we are,” she says. We call them ‘terrible twos’ (and worse), but toddlers are just learning how to be people 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z So the more we can have young men practicing care, and showing that it’s cool to take responsibility at home, … the better off we’re going to be as a society. How to achieve equality in your household? This film has answers. 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps this film would be better off if it was called The Man Who Ate a Contact Lens and Then Turned Into a Massive Twonk. Limitless: Dud is the drug 2010-12-22T17:18:00Z If such a stat head were at the service of your manager, wouldn't your team be better off? Why Sports Statisticians Should Be More Involved in Games 2011-03-11T09:35:00Z And with any luck the children would be better off and have less “shrieking and sobbing.” Ask Amy: Vacation dilemma calls for expert mind reader In a situation like this, you’re better off sending a direct appeal to a manager at the airline. COVID-19 cancellation leads to refund dispute with American Airlines | Travel Troubleshooter 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z By adulthood, they are no better off in wages or educational attainment — in fact, their lifetime earnings are reduced by one year. Motherlode Blog: The Redshirting Debate Continues 2011-09-26T17:12:38Z They make these foods seem fun and shareable, even though many of us would be better off seeing more healthier options. Food for thought: How your mindset can make healthy food more alluring on social media 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z I hope you agree that she’s better off living with us than out of doors. Social Q?s: Honey, He Sold the Kids 2010-06-10T22:38:00Z The sooner you cut this man out of your life, the better off you’ll be. I Keep Making Out With the Father of the Kids I Babysit 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Some recipes are hard to healthy-up, so you are better off swapping in something similar but more nutritious. This Passover, enjoy a lightened-up menu that doesn’t blow your diet 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z I just thought, maybe I'm better off not doing this. "Red Notice" star Chris Diamantopoulos swears he wasn't trying to break up Jim and Pam 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z I don’t want to sound too loosey-goosey about it, because I think the more time you have to plot out your story, the better off you’ll be. ArtsBeat: Vince Gilligan of 'Breaking Bad' Talks About Ending the Season, and the Series 2011-10-10T03:07:01Z "You might get some psychological enjoyment from playing the lottery, but from a financial standpoint ... you'd be much better off going to Las Vegas and playing blackjack or the slot machines." Illinois Lottery goes online as prize hits record 2012-03-30T11:43:00Z The United States would be better off bringing everyone home than sticking to a compromise, to the impassible middle road. Books of The Times: Battle-Zone Absurdity and Adrenaline-Fueled Folly 2011-03-14T22:57:21Z At one point it looked like he might be better off picking her up off the floor completely and asking her to jiggle her feet every now and then to show movement. "Dancing with the Stars": Sarah Palin makes a cameo 2010-09-28T12:30:00Z She was better off in her own perkier, more optimistic advisory, “Kill Em With Kindness.” Review: Selena Gomez, a Disney Graduate, Majors in Angst Onstage 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Any commercially astute crowd, however, might be better off funding one of the new breed of metal bands. Spanish music now: from Alicante to Zaragoza 2012-06-19T15:05:06Z Another is that the group does not provide program notes, on the theory that listeners are better off focusing on these works without preconceptions. Music Review: Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church - review 2011-08-26T22:30:32Z As in Post Tenebras Lux, stolid villagers get heroically wasted, menacing the order and proprieties of the better off. Carlos Reygadas: in defence of Post Tenebras Lux 2013-03-14T18:00:09Z “Why was it illegal in the first place? Misinformation. The more information we have, the better off we’ll be. It’ll just take awhile,” he says as he jovially prepares his mint chutney. The chef cooking his way to a cannabis revolution: 'I'm a scientist at heart' 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Sky1 It seems fantastical that a new episode of The Simpsons doesn't even register any more - frankly you're better off watching Modern Family at eight. The Culture Show 2010-06-03T07:00:00Z Those who reflexively compare Mr. Lethem to other Jonathans, like Jonathan Franzen, would be better off invoking Philip Roth to characterize this one. Books of The Times: ‘Dissident Gardens,’ Jonathan Lethem’s New Novel 2013-09-11T19:49:43Z And when Relax was banned, quite a few people were suggesting it was somehow Paul's fault, and we'd be better off without him. ZTT: 'Every record company panicked after Two Tribes' – a classic feature from the vaultsZTT: 'Every record company panicked after Two Tribes' 2013-01-01T11:00:00Z While Mr. Mallory now describes himself as “significantly better off financially,” he hasn’t yet found the time to make use of his recent windfall. Your Book Editor Just Snagged Your Spot on the Best-Seller List 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z “You can’t be better off than having a dad who plays the same instrument that you do,” he said. Joey DeFrancesco, Reigning King of the Jazz Organ, Dies at 51 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Her thesis is that today’s only children are materially better off than their forebears—sometimes hugely so—but that they are a lonely generation whose parents’ dreams lie heavy on their shoulders. Only and lonely 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Caught between an authoritarian state that hates them and a profit-driven liberal project that dehumanizes them, the cryptids are obviously better off fending for themselves. ‘Cryptozoo’ Review: Wild Things 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Basically, that means the invasive plant is a very prolific spreader, so you're better off foraging this than the often overpicked native ramp. 8 edible weeds to start foraging 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z I sense from the popularity of the show that there is a strong desire to get back to the real things, and the sooner everyone realizes that, the better off we will all be. Daryl Hall explains it all to Salon: “Record company executives are the most backward bunch of idiots I’ve ever seen” 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z My feeling is that the more you accept “Billions” as a twisty, pungent Wall Street soap opera, the better off you’ll be. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 2: Part of the Firmament 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Season 3 is now streaming, although you’re better off starting at the beginning, since there are a lot of surprise twists and changing aliases. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z “Take a moment on this July the Fourth,” he concludes, “to think about all that you’ve left behind and I think that you’ll realize you’re way better off the way things are.” John Oliver Reminds U.S. What It Lost on Independence Day 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Here’s why that money is better off in your own wallet. Why extended warranties are hardly ever a good deal 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z "They told us to budget for a cut of 10%, so we are better off than we feared," he commented. 'Lighter than expected' cuts to publishing funding 2010-10-26T10:45:00Z If those are the qualities you are seeking, you’d be better off eating an apple. Is apple cider vinegar really good for you? 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z But with Brown, she said, she knows that he’s left the city better off than he found it. In Buffalo, a democratic socialist vies for mayor in a race she thought she’d already won 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z If you want to find evidence that children are better off at home with a parent, you will find that, too. This new mom has a choice: Go back to work or stay at home 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z I mean, what was so doggone wrong with the flavor of coffee that people felt like it would be better off tasting like hazelnut candy and imitation vanilla extract? "Cowboys & Aliens": Daniel Craig does Eastwood in a steampunk mashup 2011-07-28T00:30:00Z What worries her is that the older players, despite their age and weight, actually seemed better off metabolically than the younger guys, who were encouraged to put on increasingly more pounds as the sport supersized. Retired NFL players team up to lose weight Those white ladies are better off than any black people. Dear Oscars, I Love You. But We Need to Talk. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z But she did ask questions ranging from whether the country is better off economically to whether respect for the country is eroding around the world. Trump blasts Oprah over 60 Minutes episode 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z If we taxed and regulated the drugs the way they do in other parts of the world, we would be far better off, I think. Willie Nelson: 'If we made marijuana legal, we'd save a whole lotta money and lives' 2012-05-17T14:45:01Z “There were so many things that could be done to it or go wrong with it, this adult female body, that I was left feeling I would be better off without it.” Maybe Gilead can't hold: Lessons from Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale" sequel "The Testaments" 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z They’d be better off in Nigeria with the culture that created them, he said. This Art Was Looted 123 Years Ago. Will It Ever Be Returned? 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z For him, the series poses a question about our present while looking back at the past: “Are we better off?” He hunted bin Laden — then died in 9/11. Now the FBI legend is the center of a new TV show. 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z You would be better off watching an actual reality show and supplying your own snark. ‘UnREAL’ and ‘Another Period’: From female creators, sharp jabs at reality 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z As for the fact that your parents are better off, I’m concerned that you think this explains his less healthy relationship with his parents. My boyfriend doesn’t like my parents. What does this mean for our future? 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Might you be better off just watching or rewatching one of Carlin’s stand-up specials, many of which are streaming on a variety of platforms? How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Do you really think that the soldiers that ‘Black Hawk Down’ was about were any better off? Film: Ridley Scott?s New Spectacle Film: ?Robin Hood? 2010-05-07T23:29:00Z If you want ennui, you're still better off sticking with the French. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke 2010-10-04T12:08:00Z You are definitely better off doing that with a sympathetic or professionally trained adult than with a young man who’s still developing his own emotional DNA. How do I tell my boyfriend I was raped? | Mariella Frostrup 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z "I think with or without Mubarak, the next six months will be complicated, and I think we're better off without him," he said. Famous faces lend voice to Egypt's protests 2011-02-05T21:10:55Z But Raul knew he was better off if we were friendly, so he invited us over and offered us Cokes, Otter Pops, anything we wanted. My fantasies of mass murder 2013-03-05T01:00:00Z A long time ago, Stevenson said, "You are better off being rich and guilty than being poor and innocent." "Just Mercy": Freeing an innocent man shouldn't be this hard 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z And U2, like most artists, is better off looking ahead than looking back. U2 Revisits Its Past, in the Name of … What, Exactly? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z And I think that Agnes Callard might be better off if she refrained from lying in the middle of the road. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z If you read just one book a month, you’re probably better off buying it - typically for less than the monthly subscription price. Review: Unlimited e-book services offer plenty 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z “But it helps me keep myself on the bone, which is important, because the less weight I put onto feet, the better off we are.” Twyla Tharp Wants You to Move 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z But Future’s consistency has tremendous value — he’s as much high plateau as peak, and better off for it. Future and the Art of Flooding the Market 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Occasionally, Iris’s efforts at originality can make you wonder if you wouldn’t be better off with that simple, boring, $90 fish. Greece and Turkey, Together on One Menu at Iris 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Still, sometimes you’re better off taking matters into your own hands rather than waiting for your carrier to help you. Lessons From a Volcano: If You?re in an Airspace Shutdown, Some Guidelines 2010-04-28T01:38:00Z In December, he tweeted: “Using e-cigs increases exposure to toxic chemicals for most users; they would be better off just smoking.” The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Saying, “Fat kids are better off dead than living with their health problems”?! Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Walk away from a fat-shamer. It’s the best kind of exercise. 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z “Today I’m much better off making much less, designing just one piece at a time, but a really loved piece.” On the Runway Blog: A Russian Artist's Fashionable Flights 2011-11-14T23:27:28Z Whilst choking it down, I wondered if I might not be better off sitting on a bench, and, like the German man I’d seen, thinking about whether I’d led a meaningful life. A Dog Day Afternoon 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Wouldn’t you be better off knowing this is a transaction, not a relationship? What I’m really thinking: the firing manager 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z That Lloyd left his family, thinking they would be better off? Thomas Haden Church on his offbeat new "Acidman" role: "There is clearly something wrong with Lloyd" 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z “If you can sneak in some exercises to target these problem areas, I think you’re going to be much better off come the next hiking season,” he says. Indoor exercises to prepare you for hiking the great outdoors 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Terzian added that those who want the “undone” look regularly would be better off giving their hair such a “wave,” as opposed to using curling irons every day. Skin Deep: Turning Heads (but Don?t Call It a Perm) 2011-02-02T22:12:34Z “The more people that know about boxing, the more people that come into a boxing gym, the better off we are.” The New Workout: Boxing Without the Bruises 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps he’s better off doing his own thing. Arts & Leisure: ‘Comedy Bang! Bang!’ Scott Aukerman 2012-05-30T15:31:35Z If they did, patients would be much better off, he said. Should the terminally ill control their death? 2012-09-22T13:00:00Z “It’s the kind of situation where I think if my sign matters that much to you, maybe we’re better off not living together. Although I suppose that logic applies to other forms of discrimination.” Capricorns need not apply: is it legal to pick a roommate by astrological sign? 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z “These days because the country is richer and much better off, my works reflect that atmosphere,” Mr. Kim said. A Founding Father of Korean Multimedia Comes to Maastricht 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Why not believe in Scott Bean when the rest of the world believes Tilly is better off hidden away? The powerful story of one family’s struggle to save an autistic child 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z But he’s capable of exciting musical synthesis, and the more he lets his appearance inform his music, the better off he’ll be. Critic’s Notebook: K-Pop’s Antic Emissary Raids the Cupboard 2013-09-15T22:01:32Z “The facts show that the music industry was much better off before Spotify hit these shores,” Borchetta told Time’s Jack Dickey. Taylor Swift doesn't like Spotify, says her work has 'greater value' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Last week, the Supreme Court justice spoke against university-based affirmative action, saying that black students were being moved ahead too quickly and that many of them would be better off at “less advanced schools.” How John McWhorter found himself defending Scalia on affirmative action: “Frankly, I think even a stopped clock is right twice a day” 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z "The facts show that the music industry was much better off before Spotify hit these shores," he told Time. Swift's label refutes Spotify claim 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z La Chine is far from the realm of fortune cookies, and better off for it. Imagination Worth the Added Price at Midtown’s La Chine 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Are we better off with them than we were without them? Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Where the next generation is going to struggle to be better off than this one. TV review: The American Roadtrip: Obama's Story; Harry & Paul 2012-10-28T22:30:12Z He’s not Lord Sugar rich, but he’s certainly better off than, say, Rowan Atkinson or the combined entire cast of EastEnders. Simon Cowell without the insults: what's the point? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z But acne sufferers would be better off drinking two cups of spearmint tea daily. Paring Back Your Beauty Routine? Try Water, With a Boost 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z I wanted to make myself better off and be somebody. The secrets of long-term love 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z The Bachelor was not a good fit for her, she couldn’t handle the competition and stress, and knew she would be better off at home. 'The Bachelor' Watch: The Women Tell All 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z The other one is a society where most Americans are actually better off. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z Claude says we would all be better off if women played a much stronger role in the sector. Where are all the women in American film? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z For a longer ride, you would be better off hiring a bike from one of the numerous cycle shops in the city. 10 of the best ways to enjoy New York … on a budget 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Philip wonders whether their kids are not better off as Americans than as Soviets. TV Tonight: The Americans 2013-01-30T13:00:11Z Its conclusion, harrowing, humorous and arguably unfortunate, only reinforces the idea that the unsophisticated country people are better off as they were. Review: ‘1000 Rupee Note,’ a Poor Widow’s Blessing and Curse 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z And at some point, you really can't help but wonder if Love, Joe and their eventual victims would have been better off if the couple had just reevaluated the parameters of their marriage. On "You," polyamory done right could have saved a doomed marriage 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z He said he felt that a political party is better off with a variety of perspectives. Outspoken conservative loses job over ‘problematic’ comments 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Whom the company is “better off without” and “the guy we were about to fire anyway.” What Are Some Tips and Hacks for Managing People? 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z So we’re probably better off taking our clues about from a scene he’s not even in. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: Philip, the Platinum Spy 2014-03-27T03:00:55Z “We’re shifting the narrative to celebrating diversity, since birding is better off if it’s more diverse,” Ward said. A concise guide to birding in your own backyard 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Yes, it argues way too hard for Cher’s significance — a significance it would be better off merely assuming and then complicating. Review: In ‘The Cher Show,’ I Got You, Babe. And You. And You. 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z But Demme made his mark, and movie fans everywhere were better off as a result. Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director, Is Dead at 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z I understand but think if that's the case the two of them would be better off taking a vacation together. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mother love goes to the dogs 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z We are better off digging into these dynamics and seeing what work, what promise, is here for us. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z It's hard not to wonder if the children wouldn't be better off in foster care. Charlie Sheen loses custody of twins, but are both parents unfit? 2011-04-19T23:33:00Z You’re way better off just letting the mood and mystery and menace of the movie surround you, and not trying to puzzle it out. “Prometheus”: Ridley Scott’s dazzling, sci-fi spectacle 2012-06-06T20:09:00Z “This is actually better than sustainable,” she said, “because the more you fish it, the better off the kelp forest will be. This is a restorative seafood product.” ‘Zombie’ Urchins Are Destroying Kelp Forests. Can’t We Just Eat Them? 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z But if the company’s experience is the same as Hush Puppies’ or Uggs’, the company will be better off after this crisis. L.L. Bean's Ugly Duck Boots: Suddenly Hip, and Sold Out for Winter 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Because state insurance regulations often act to drive up the cost of health insurance, many companies—especially large ones with a broad risk pool—are better off if they self-insure their workers. Could Private Insurers Make Traditional Medicare More Efficient? 2012-08-21T04:07:16Z So, this is all to say, I think we're all better off because of the existence of the egg bite — and it's no surprise they've come to dominate coffee shop breakfast menus. The rise of the egg bite: How these portable omelets became the star of coffee shop breakfasts 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z But creators in musical theater and opera are better off working their native turfs. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z The Tylers languish in gadgets and plastic surgery, only surfacing from their alcoholic fugues long enough to snap at each other — yet they are ostensibly better off, financially, than the Wilsons. I Know Where You Lived Last Summer 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z I think she may have been better off with the Scientologists. Peaches Geldof has signed up to Aleister Crowley's sex cult OTO 2013-04-15T13:23:39Z For the sake of his soul and his family, he might be better off embracing the revolution. TV review: Storyville: The Queen of Versailles; Great British Menu 2013-01-28T23:30:01Z If what you really want to do is read excellent prose, you would be better off buying a book, the kind that comes with pages and everything. Text Games in a New Era of Stories 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z It isn’t a birthright that your kids are going to be better off than you anymore, and people are mad about that. Al Franken and Olivia Wilde: Calling a Lie a Lie 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z “Playing basketball? Women are better off at home.” China’s Viral Idol: Papi Jiang, a Girl Next Door With Attitude 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z And yes, he’s singing an imitation of the Isley Brothers’ “Shout!,” but wouldn’t we be better off hearing this song at every wedding reception for the rest of time? Perspective | With ‘R&B in DC 1940-1960,’ historian Jay Bruder reacquaints us with the sounds of a vanished Washington 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Schadenfreude is an ugly, base emotion and one we’d all be better off eschewing whenever possible. Mast Brothers: taste-testing $10 chocolate bars as controversy boils over 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z In short: you’re better off embracing the fact that you’re heading into the office, and preparing accordingly, than trying to prolong the feeling of not yet being at work. How to love your daily commute | Oliver Burkeman 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Still, I’m not sure the Wizards are better off without Wall. Perspective | With Wizards’ star out, everyone else shines 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z And if you try to click through one of those clunky digital museum tours, you might quickly conclude that you’re better off with no museum experience at all. Perspective | This Smithsonian exhibit says something powerful about Native Americans, even through your screen 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Until then, you’re probably better off Googling your destination with the words “bike rental.” Pushing Pedals, Not Budgets 2010-04-21T03:00:00Z And experts say their skin, hair and nails may be better off. Those scaled-back pandemic beauty habits are better for your skin, hair and nails, experts say 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z In that sense, perhaps “Greater Clements” isn’t too long but too short: It might be better off as a mini-series, where its net of ideas could unwind more naturally. Review: In ‘Greater Clements,’ the Tragedy of a Town that Closed 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z And like Mr Frank, she is certain such voters would be better off under the Democrats. Hand on heart 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z It wasn’t that the more education you get, the better off you are in terms of sleep. America has a sleep inequality crisis to match its income inequality crisis 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z What am I doing to leave this world better off than it was before I got here, just like my grandma and Dr King did? Coming around on Martin Luther King Jr.: My Grandma, the Black church and me 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Generally, rail tickets are more flexible than airline tickets, and you were better off just taking the refund and buying new tickets when you needed them. Why is this refund for BritRail tickets taking so long? | Travel Troubleshooter 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z At least Karn's boss can place a monetary value on them; in the end, the company is better off without them. There's no hiding from it: The politics of "Andor" look a lot like the type troubling our world 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z It went in, and the film is definitely better off for it. I Give It A Year: how I tried to subvert the romcom 2013-02-02T06:00:00Z Indeed, if it sells ebooks at a loss, it may still be better off overall, because this will drive up sales of its Kindle. The true price of publishing 2011-08-04T14:04:46Z “Considering the environment of Los Angeles, I think we are better off using our resources doing things other than buying stuff,” she says of her institution’s mission. New Main Museum in downtown Los Angeles reveals 'Beta' plans — and focus on art in L.A. 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “It is certainly putting the fear in her that she’d be better off not being released from her contract.” She sang ‘Killing Me Softly’ before Roberta Flack. Now she just wants you to hear her side of the story. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z To wit: H. to Nixon: The better off I come out of this, the better off you come out of it vis-à-vis me. ‘The Nixon Tapes: 1973,’ Edited by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z In one way or another, the ticket producer, the scalper and the people who attend the event will each be better off. Scalping Isn't Scamming 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z A bottle whose cork has been lost is better off covered with foil or plastic wrap than just left open. How long does that open bottle of wine last, really? 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z “Our hope is that when it’s all said and done, we have left the industry a little bit better off,” he says. The Last Days of wd~50 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z As the majority of people eat most of their meals in the home, the more obvious inference was that you are better off cooking at home than getting a take-away. TV review: Spies of Warsaw; The Food Inspectors 2013-01-09T22:30:00Z You’re better off organizing results by price — or, better yet, user rating. Tips from the Frugal Traveler: Writer Seth Kugel explains how to master frugal travel without skimping on fun 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Working at Gawker Media, you get accustomed to people telling you that the world would be better off if you were out of a job. Gawker’s Essential Unevenness 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z Liberals like to think that empathy is a great virtue, he says, and that progress is not only possible but morally necessary, but people would be better off cultivating a catlike indifference. Want the Good Life? This Philosopher Suggests Learning From Cats 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z But what I wonder is whether I am just one of those people better off alone. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Are some people destined to be single? 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z You’d be better off making a burger at home, where it can be prepared to yield fewer calories and less sodium — whether it’s vegan or not. Perspective | Is it really possible that plant-based foods such as the Impossible Whopper are healthful? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Unless you pay all your bills on time and have time to master the complex rules of this game, you’re better off without these cards. The public may be losing its affinity for travel credit cards 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z "She's young. They decided they would be better off as friends." Sarah Hyland of 'Modern Family' and boyfriend Matt Prokop split 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Survey respondents may claim to believe that young children are “better off” if a mother stays home, but all the available external evidence suggest that we are eager to qualify that. Motherlode Blog: What’s Wrong With the Breadwinner Moms Study 2013-05-30T14:13:35Z Because sometimes you’re just better off not being an action hero. I Was Misinformed: Yikes! An Action Hero at a Loss for Action 2014-03-13T21:41:32Z Would her children be better off if she hadn’t tried to hide her physical suffering? New Israeli Fiction: A Reluctant Bride, a Brave Survivor and Fables for a Modern World 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Are you better off spending more time with your family, having a little less, and dealing with less than ideal conditions? Hari Kondabolu: "It works in the interest of those with power" to divide people of color 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z We plunked down a pile of quarters and darted down Broadway, working out how we would sneak our troves past our parents, who imagined we’d be better off reading novels. Superheroes: Born in New York City 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z First, capitalism’s victory over Communism meant that the more unbounded capital was, through freer trade and more open capital markets, the better off Americans — and the world — would be. How Victory in the Cold War Led to Tragedy in the Years After 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z My father knows I choose to fill my time with people for whom Christianity is an outmoded concept, a vestigial tail that humanity would be better off losing. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z By the 1950s, though, the idea of vertical integration was passé, and the company--along with every other carmaker--decided it was better off buying raw materials like steel from outside suppliers. Hyundai Rolls Its Own 2011-02-23T23:00:00Z Some defend themselves by saying these girls are better off working in homes, rather than on the street. Beaten, raped and forced to work: why I'm exposing the scandal of Nigeria’s house girls 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Bergholtz agrees, writing, “I actually really liked the movie and think it was better off not showing the makeup. Kudos to the director for sticking to her guns on that one.” "Bird Box" monster revealed: Special effects artist shares the creature that was cut from the film 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The world is better off, now that we’ve learned—or at least are learning—to think and talk about these things. Review: The Legend of Tarzan Is Revisionist, Anachronistic, Weird and Beautiful 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “It is indisputable that our democracy is better off thanks to Snowden,” said American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero in a statement this week. As a source — and a patriot — Edward Snowden deserves a presidential pardon 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z “The grass is always greener, she thinks she might be better off back in Austin,” said Ms. Lomas, 46, who runs a political supper club there. The Boarding-School Boom 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z “We’re doing that work now, and the museum will be better off for it.” Timothy Rub Will Step Down at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Maybe the best hope for independent cinema is to recognize that, sometimes, it’s better off being independent from cinema. Why TV Is the Perfect Place for Indie Filmmakers 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z "We're better off now than we were a year and a half ago in a lot of ways." For liquor stores, sales surged during the pandemic. What will happen when drinkers go back to bars? 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z We were convinced he would be better off with roof airbags and side curtains. Please Take My Son’s Wallet 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Poor, dim J would be better off wandering the streets, getting into ordinary kinds of trouble, rather than slipping into the wayward ways of Smurf, the Ma Barker of Melbourne, and her nasty lads. Animal Kingdom: A Cool and Creepy Crime Drama 2010-08-14T06:50:00Z He was only six when we split up and the judge decided he’d be better off with his mother. Burt Reynolds: my family values 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z You’re not better off on one side of the reveal than you are on the other. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2, Episode 9: A Bad Dream 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z I realize I am much better off without her hatred in my life. Perspective | Ask Amy: Woman insists friend shun gay granddaughter to remain on good terms 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Teens are better off when they don’t care about what other people think—as hard as that may be. 'Cool' Kids More Likely to Have Problems Later in Life 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Individually, some of these relationships survived; but as a group, my friends just seemed better off without me. The San Antonio cocktail that helped me see myself clearly 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z “As challenging as this media environment is, I think mission-driven organizations that have members and foundations supporting their work are a lot better off than those that rely only on advertising.” ‘Don’t Break It!’ The New Hosts of ‘Radiolab’ Remodel a Landmark 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z You might be better off moving to a new location. Perspective | The hard work of going away for a long, long time 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Our nanny is better off, but I can’t help feeling betrayed by the neighbor. Social Q?s: Robbing the Cradle Sitter 2010-10-15T21:20:00Z “The longer time horizon we have to look for better deals, the better off we are.” Looking for the Cheapest Room Rate? HotelSlash Wants to Help. 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z “When you have to rent something for two weeks, and set it up,” Mr. Michaels said, “believe me, you’re better off in a yacht.” ArtsBeat: Film Announcements Always More Fun Aboard a Yacht 2011-05-13T18:28:32Z Maybe, he adds, it’s better off that air travelers are in the dark. Is Washington ignoring air travelers? 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z I swear, the older I get, the more convinced I am that there are many things I am better off not knowing. Three stars for engaging 'Hickorydickory' 2011-05-16T01:07:25Z If there are still a lot of unripe tomatoes or peppers on your plants, you are usually better off ripening them indoors. How to protect your precious plants from a harsh frost 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z You might be better off sticking to wood mulch, which will biodegrade more safely into your soil. 5 “green” products that aren’t as environmentally friendly as their labels suggest 2014-05-13T11:15:00Z New York City and the publishing world were much better off when Glenn O’Brien was here, adding his delightful insights. Glenn O’Brien’s Friends Remember a ‘Successful Maniac’ 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z We are all better off without synthetic chemical fragrances from laundry detergents, toiletries and other products in our homes, and our gardens would be better without herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. Animal Doctor: Are my cats trying to play mind games with me? 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z In a similar way, nothing about “El Camino” makes a case that we are necessarily better off with it than without it, or that some great hole has now been filled. Review | Whatever happened to Jesse Pinkman? Thanks to ‘El Camino,’ now we know. 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z A: If you ask a company that repairs lawn equipment, you’ll probably be told that you’d be better off buying a new mower. What to do about a rusty lawn mower 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z “I sometimes think if she didn’t have the Vanderbilt name, she would have been better off,” he said. More than a statue: Cooper explores the Vanderbilt legacy 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Better yet, consider that domestic airports are required to have accessible restrooms in all terminals; you will definitely be better off using the toilet before you depart. Flying Tips for Wheelchair Users, From Wheelchair Users 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z You're far better off pummeling something stretchier and more yielding like pizza dough. Do not rage-cook mapo tofu, and other emotional kitchen lessons 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z And yet, women and girls may still be better off than they were when “Margaret” was published and they were shrouded in darkness and shame about their own development. ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’: Beloved, Banned and Finally Adapted 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The electronic beats and strings and atmospheres felt modishly bleak, seeming to push him toward a beautiful-loser persona that he’s always been better off resisting. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-22T00:00:27Z If there were more such Corman-esque thrills and chills, and a whole bunch less ponderous Bergman references, we'd all be better off. "Season of the Witch": Nicolas Cage's ludicrous medieval mashup 2011-01-06T02:02:00Z He also asserted that a "writer without a sense of justice and injustice would be better off editing the yearbook of a school for exceptional children." Ken Burns' vicious Hemingway smear: PBS series totally ignores writer's lifelong leftist politics 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z Or that she was born into a culture where bloodlines pass through sons and folk wisdom holds that you’re better off raising geese than girls. Going Back to China in Search of My Daughter’s Secret Past 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z I was convinced he was better off at home with us. Why I locked my father away 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z I was just better off than others, and in a position to say, "Is everyone OK?" "Levon didn't write songs. I gave him credit": Robbie Robertson on The Band's disputes and new film 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z In more than 15 it’s a frustrating trend, one that paints a picture about who’s worthy of taking center stage and who is better off as an understudy, supporting them from the wings. White hero, sidekick of color: why Marvel needs to break the cycle 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Would most kids, in Britain as well as in the US, where children watch far more television, be better off with less of it? In praise of kids' television 2013-04-06T06:00:49Z And at 18 euros a person, including coffee and juice, we found we were better off eating at one of the nearby cafes. | Check In, Check Out : Hotel Review: Hotel Ath?n?e in Paris 2011-09-30T18:55:26Z But would we have been better off keeping some estates exclusively for the white working-class? TV review: Waking the Dead and The Great Estate 2011-04-11T21:01:00Z I think our daughter will be better off without a reluctant, angry mom in her life. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A baby came, then mom decided to leave 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s hard not to think that Affleck might be best off away from the role, and the film series better off in a place where it can make a fresh start. Ben Affleck's Batman was hard to like – but the man himself deserves some empathy 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and Persia is no better off in Waterwell’s version of this Shakespeare tragedy, performed in English and Persian. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z So you’re better off renting them from a professional camera gear rental company. Livestream Your Wedding Like a Pro 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z And she suggests, “Journalists would be better off promising to use the name responsibly.” We have to say their names: It’s not “glorifying” mass murder to report on it — and refusing to won’t help 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Wouldn’t the world be a little better off if we all started out trying to be “nice” instead of being, well, something else? Ellen DeGeneres Is Not as Nice as You Think 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The more recognition we can give to it, the better off we shall all be.” ArtsBeat: Remembering Those Radical Chic Evenings 2011-03-16T20:45:38Z But, he added, Noah would be better off not trying to replicate what "The Daily Show" is now. New 'Daily Show' host Trevor Noah heralds a new frontier in TV: diversity 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Of course, chewing food provides more satisfaction than drinking it, so you might be better off enjoying some ants on a log. Perspective | Celery juice will not work miracles, no matter what you read on Goop 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Johnson told Cinema Retro magazine in 2009 that he declined the role, and the franchise was better off for it. Richard Johnson, British actor of stage and screen, dies at 87 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z If that doesn’t work, you’re probably better off just replacing the countertop. How to clean wicker outdoor furniture "It's better off extinct," says Lucy of the tiger. The Hunter – review 2012-07-07T23:05:30Z While the citrus drink won’t hurt your skin, you may be better off lessening your refined sugar intake if aging is a concern, she said. Paring Back Your Beauty Routine? Try Water, With a Boost 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z I think I’m better off under a Tory government out of Europe, Lindsay thinks the opposite. Love across the divide: couples on Brexit, politics and religion 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Although, depending on your point of view, you might be better off with some wild pitches. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'Puss in Boots' 2011-10-27T12:53:24Z In fact, Fox may be better off without its two erstwhile stars, O’Reilly and Kelly. Another Fox News scandal in the making? The viewers don’t seem to mind. 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Few theaters are presenting it at that rate, so most viewers are out of luck — or perhaps better off, depending on your views on frame rates. The Images in ‘Billy Lynn’? Razor Sharp. Your Eyes? Bewildered. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z He might be better off sampling, then treating and tweaking, Any Female Voice and removing all traces of "the human", because otherwise he's in danger of disturbing the unearthly quiet of his tranquil, crepuscular dubstep. New band of the day ? No 972: Koreless 2011-02-22T15:02:58Z Poverty denial is a common reflex, a defence by the better off, calculating cunning ways to manage on puny pay, blaming the low paid without asking why wages are pitiful. If only soap operas didn't wash their hands of politics 2012-11-12T20:30:01Z “I don’t have the bandwidth to produce them, and until I have the manpower in the kitchen to do that, I’m better off without them.” Back to Normal? It’s a Tall Order as New York City Restaurants Struggle. 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z To get a similar warm glow in your rooms, you are much better off investing in dimmable long-lasting LED bulbs and good dimmer switches. 6 decorating trends that need to die 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z I want to stress that you are better off with frequent and short one-on-one moments than convoluted, expensive and drawn-out plans. Perspective | My kids are fighting more since they’ve been stuck at home. How do I restore order? 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z I know you're hungry and anxious, but the eggs will be better off if you just leave them alone. How to peel hard boiled eggs perfectly, every single time 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Voters reflected that wait-and-see attitude when asked if Chicago is better off now under Emanuel than it was a year ago. Chicagoans like Rahm, with reservations 2012-05-15T05:00:00Z "Cage-free" hens are better off than those that spend their lives in small battery cages but are still raised in warehouses without ever setting foot outside. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z “You’d be better off going around the corner to Red Iguana 2,” the host told me when I approached. Becoming a Salt Lake City Convert 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z “I really thought he’d be better off without me, that the world would be.” Kathy Griffin Is Trying to Get Back on the D-List 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z As Burr’s new animated Netflix series “F Is for Family” attempts to demonstrate, our world was better off when it was ruder, cruder and less patrolled. ‘F Is for Family’: Bill Burr’s stiff salute to the brutality of being a ’70s child 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Like many of us, Mr. Anderson is over-medicated and insufficiently connected to reality, though substantially better off than most. No one can say if "The Matrix Resurrections" is good or bad. Either way, it makes you think 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z And I think we realized that we were better off when we had a kind of focused energy. An Experimental Music Ensemble Won’t Just Fade Away 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z I enjoy being with him a lot but I am beginning to feel we would be better off as friends, although I am sure he would want to stay together. Ask Amy: Sober life exhausts college freshman 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z And until we know where it comes from, it’s better off in a museum collection. One of the world’s most respected curators vanished from the art world. Now she wants to tell her story. 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Would we be better off with silenced radios and folded newspapers? Motherlode Blog: What Will You Do in the Name of Malala? 2012-10-10T16:33:02Z We will all be better off for it. 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z He listed the foibles of many, many, many writers but arrived at the realization that “if you insist on judging writers by their personal behavior, you’ll be better off not reading at all.” Columns That Scrutinized, and Skewered, the Literary World 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z "If you think the show's better off without me, let me know, and I'll get out of the way," Lauer reportedly told Burke last year. Matt Lauer in damage control mode as he admits NBC botched Ann Curry exit 2013-03-11T16:09:38Z “The nation’s transportation systems are now better off – more secure, as a result of their work on funding this technology.” TSA is expanding new scanning technology to hundreds of checkpoints, and it may mean less hassle for travelers 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Duffy realised that the film business was not for him – he was better off working on his own. Brian Duffy obituary 2010-06-06T16:58:00Z She concluded that she might be better off just selling it to the highest bidder on eBay. Where Broadway Fans Wear the Crowns and the Tentacles 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z That we would all be better off if more people kept in touch with cosmic mysteries was an article of faith with Miró, from first to last. Art Review: ‘Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape,’ at National Gallery 2012-08-02T19:39:06Z The answer is yes, mostly, though any readers who aren't already well-versed in the surreal narratives and loopy language of "Night Vale" may be better off queuing up a few episodes of the podcast first. 'Welcome to Night Vale' podcast becomes an equally weird, haunted yet humorous novel 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z After a failed business venture, she ended up in the care of a local mental health crisis team, believing that her “family and the world would be far better off without me”. ‘I assumed it was all my fault’: the adults dealing with undiagnosed ADHD 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Less impressed was the Patrick Marmion who acknowledged the "top drawer" acting and "deftly handled" shocks, but concluded: "You're still better off watching the subtitled film." Vampire play shocks at Royal Court 2013-12-06T12:51:58Z New Labour broke my heart, made me feel as though I hated my country, made me feel things in my country were so bad I would be better off dead. Looking back on New Labour: Peter Akinti 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z She ultimately sacrifices herself to the curse once again and decides she’s better off as the Cheetah. A History of the Cheetah in ‘Wonder Woman’ 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z “In terms of women in leadership roles, we are not better off,” she told USA Today last year. The end of leaning in: How Sheryl Sandberg’s message of empowerment fully unraveled 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z At best, he was an audience surrogate – telling these sad, untalented, delusional contestants that they’d be better off going home to sell fallout shelters door-to-door than dare attempt to sing. Simon Cowell without the insults: what's the point? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z “That they are better off than we; and we brave our unmerited poverty stoically, whilst they sail yachts, and indulge in God knows what depravities in boathouses.” Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z If not, you might be better off picking up that Keith Richards memoir. | 'Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields': A Musician Who Imparts a Glum Kind of Grandeur 2010-10-26T22:34:00Z These inspirations of Mr. Hiaasen’s sound dated; he’s better off with even older ones. Books of The Times: How to Handle a Pop Star in Carl Hiaasen?s ?Star Island? 2010-07-20T22:00:00Z He added music fans were better off spending £15 on headphones without a big brand name for decent quality music, rather than buying a copy. Fake Dr Dre headphones 'most seized' 2013-05-09T17:15:45Z But if your lips still tingle from those tostadas, you'd be better off with sorbet from Olympic Mountain — or maybe another margarita. The party's on at Kirkland's Milagro Cantina 2011-03-10T22:31:07Z Even Gi-hun tries to reassure Sang-woo that he can recover from his debt without risking his life, insisting that his business school degree means he can always earn money, that he's better off that most. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z You are, for instance, better off with a design constructed from flat planes that don’t inhibit movement than with one that resembles a hyper-ergonomized body sling. Do guns or people kill people? 2013-03-06T13:12:00Z That’s a gutsy change and we are all better off for it. 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