| 单词 | designed |
| 例句 | Shin’s success in crawling through an electric fence designed to kill seems to have been a function of luck. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z "I'm sure it was hard to trim down a ship that's already designed to be as light as possible," Venkat said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The controls inside the mech are beautifully simple—designed for each of us to understand it instantaneously. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She was designed to her bones for a swifter life. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z "It was designed to give the FBI phone-tap operators reassurance that I was still at home and keep them off my trail." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit lived behind an electric stall door that Smith had designed and built himself. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the ship was already designed for it, they used the system on the return trip as well. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z My backpack, of blessed memory, could fit four schoolbooks in it, but the Kellner & Newton Messenger Bag was clearly designed for product placement and not storage capacity. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Zeitoun designed an addition that will give all the children their own rooms, and will allow Kathy to work at home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Whereas in England even abolitionists portrayed humble slaves on their knees pleading for freedom, in this coin designed for use in Africa, the English and the African are shown as nearly equal. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z If their placement had been designed to symbolize a separation from the Court of Honor’s technological advances, then what messages were their actual content meant to send? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The room overlooked a prayer garden that Rameel had designed and built for the church. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z That is where three meals a day for thirty-seven thousand animals are designed and mixed by computer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Both the food and the car have been designed for eating on the road. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The next day, he brought me a book about famous buildings and the men who had designed and built them. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Freedom Bay was a collection of one thousand brick homes designed by an architect with a passion for duplication. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The new Khmer have better words for eating, sleeping, working, stranger; all designed to make us equal. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The new racial caste system operates unimpeded by the Fourteenth Amendment and federal civil rights legislation—laws designed to topple earlier systems of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I’ve played with a lot of the Capitol’s weapons in training, but none designed for military combat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I was on a bench, trying to ignore the Daniels’ whooping and yipping, designed to catch the attention of a couple of girls. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z She’s wearing her jacket, which might be pink but was clearly designed for winter in Florida, and she looks completely frozen. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “The way this room has been designed, the heat from the fire above has turned some of the poison liquid into a gas,” reasoned Mini. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The lessons had been designed by Mr. Curtain himself, and when all of them had been gotten through, they were repeated from the beginning. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Though the network was elegantly designed, there were not enough seats in the car pool to replace an entire city bus system. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Orpheus, a professional architect, remodeled their house, designed and built a separate studio for Marian, and dammed up a small brook to make a swimming hole. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The answer is that it is partly a matter of where astronomers point their instruments and partly a matter of what their instruments are designed to detect, and partly it’s just Pluto. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Often it was softball, but sometimes it was a made-up sport designed to at least keep us active for the last hour and a bit of the school week. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The costumes were especially designed to hide her disfigured right arm. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a wooden box designed to look like a raven. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The words are designed to provoke a reaction—and they do. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I was a child of the South Side, now raising daughters who slept in rooms designed by a high-end interior decorator and who could custom order their breakfast from a chef. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Later, the doctors designed gas chambers camouflaged as shower rooms that held from fifteen to twenty victims at a time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Like a fortress, it seemed designed to repel any attempt to get inside. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The pure gold surface has been designed to resemble the woven horn that we fill at harvest, so there are little ridges and seams to get a decent hold on. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He even stuck checks into the slots of those cans designed for people to drop their spare change. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It is bone, and like the bumper of a car, it's designed to take a blow. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It had probably been designed by a self-taught civil engineer, which may have accounted for the absence of all those expected molecules of water. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Now I see why Hideo designed his house in Tokyo the way he did; it must remind him of here, his true home. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He’d designed the hull to resonate every few seconds, sending waves through the Mist and alerting Festus to any nearby monsters, but it only worked in one mode at a time: water or air. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She designed the silks that would become legendary: crimson-and-white cap, white sleeves, and a crimson vest emblazoned with the Ridgewood cattle brand, an H inside a large white triangle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I understand what you mean. My dad designed the library’s front doors.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z After the Voting Rights Act passed, court clerks and judges still kept the jury rolls mostly white through various tactics designed to undermine the law. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I’m wearing a gray T-shirt with the logo I designed hand-drawn in fabric marker. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z This was a long-tail boat, designed with the motor, orb, and rudder all attached to the same long pole. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Which is funny, because whoever designed the list forgot to mention drinking and sex—which would’ve been the most accurate response for most of our student body. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z And the major institutions with which they come into contact are designed to prevent their mobility. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Other boxes are specially designed for owls and for bats, so that these creatures may take over in the dark hours the work of insect hunting performed in daylight by the small birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He lives here, on twenty-six acres, about a ten-minute drive from campus—in an underground house that he designed a few years ago. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It just turned back and rested against the designed wood like a lovely, dark, polished shell. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was not designed to sustain a sudden impact from a loose three-hundred-kilogram mass. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She was irresistible, with a dress she had designed and one of the long shad-vertebra necklaces that she herself had made. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Only the human mind is designed to work in this way, programmed to drift away in the presence of locked-on information, straying from each point in a hunt for a better, different point. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton’s distinction between personal and political criticism was designed to change the dispute with Burr from an affair of honor to a political difference of opinion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The inner door opens, admitting him into the little air lock designed to keep patients from escaping. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The classrooms were open concept and thoughtfully designed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z To intercept Hermes, it'll have to reach escape velocity, but it was only designed to get to orbit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Campbell’s has even designed a microwavable soup that can be eaten in a car. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “They were designed to hold captured wights, hardened criminals, and the dangerously insane,” Millard explained. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Resin designed to seal a breach against that pressure? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A similar case occurred in 1939 when a group of engineers calling themselves the British Interplanetary Society designed a ship to take people to the Moon—using 1939 technology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The tests we took were designed to determine our eligibility for Mensa, an international association for those with IQs of 132 or higher. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Every piece of equipment had to be machined to the most demanding specifications and designed for the heaviest duty. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It must have been designed by a committee because it’s a fairly pathetic barrier. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was my signature color, but the hat was designed, after all, for sun protection. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He forged a religion designed to last, not predigested obsolescence. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We chose Miami because the city’s skyscrapers are designed to withstand hurricanes, not earthquakes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z That was a critical talent for a project facing such tight deadlines that immense factories would have to be designed and built for processes that could not be tested in advance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It brought with it many ground rules designed to imprison and control everyone who was not white. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z No one directly proclaimed that schools were designed to sanctify failure and destruction. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “You couldn’t have designed those better yourself,” Mom said as she paid for the cards. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Dwarf feet are designed for spadework, not for the delicate intricacies of ballet dancing or balancing on wooden steps. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He struck a good balance—I was playing on the team opposite English most of the time, and even though Fist was designed for him, he didn’t call it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The preserved heads apparently were “spirit traps” designed to keep the spirit in its original dwelling place. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Her notes were coded signals that were designed to lead researchers deeper into her own files, where they could start to piece together what had really happened. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Amsterdam was a city designed for movement and activity, a city that would rather not travel by car, and so inevitably I felt excluded from it. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Then they designed a similar membrane for air. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z From the packaging to the taste, fast food is designed to be eaten quickly. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The two-man Gemini spacecraft was being designed to find out as much as we could in earth orbit before trying to take an Apollo spacecraft all the way to the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z From here on it’s like a Russian nesting doll, designed that way by Peck. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Everything about this place is designed to break you down until you’re nothing but a number. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And a third looked like she designed it! The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The stretcher had been designed to be carried down the White House stairs while keeping the patient horizontal. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He was transferred onto a specially designed thick mattress nestled atop a box full of cushions. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The arrows that Beetee designed are no less remarkable than the bow. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Instead I tasted and smelled the acridness of tin plates and cups designed for tea parties that bored me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The suit is designed for eight hours of use. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Withstanding forces far greater than it was designed for, it rippled violently against the airlock seal- strip. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I was still living in Chicago when I began to receive creepy Christmas newsletters designed to look like tabloids and annual reports. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It was tradition at Trinity to toss star players against the freshmen and to build plays designed to stop the stars. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We give them a questionnaire, like the Big Five Inventory, carefully designed to elicit telling responses. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Like the minstrel shows of the slavery and Jim Crow eras, today’s displays are generally designed for white audiences. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Apartheid was designed to divide racial groups, and we showed that different groups could work together. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To him, Harrison represented the old Chicago of filth, smoke, and vice, everything the fair was designed to repudiate. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was her public face the mortician had designed with his dubious art. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Like other designed objects, it comes about not by accident but by drafting a blueprint, attending to details, and maintaining a sense of harmony and balance. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Even as Gandhi was working for Balasumdaram, the South Africans passed a new law designed to make life difficult for Indians. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Not even pretties, whose bodies were perfectly balanced, designed for elegance in every kind of clothing, moved with such effortless control Tally deliberately turned her eyes away from him. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The lunar receiving laboratory was designed to subject us and our moon rocks to every possible test to make sure we had not brought any germs back from the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I know all about that—it’s like finding out that the factions are an artificial system, designed by scientists to keep us under control for as long as possible. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The walls are made of glass—I guess I know which faction designed my school. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The drug was Phalanxifor, this molecule designed to attach itself to cancer cells and slow their growth. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The first resolution was designed to appease the Deep South by confirming that the Constitution prohibited any federal legislation limiting or ending the slave trade until 1808. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Ludus had been designed as a place of learning, so the planet had been created without a single quest portal or gaming zone anywhere on its surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was poetry designed to tell a tale. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z A couple of sofas were designed to look like Scrabble trays, with letter-square pillows. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The apartments weren’t designed for that many, but that was what Harlem was about, working people doing the best they could. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The Nazis had forced us into impossibly crowded conditions designed to bring out the worst in people. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z If the best antidote for poisons is dilution, what better dilution than a chemical designed to add water and oxygen constantly for hundreds of years? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z If most almanacs were designed to last only for a year, even a perpetual almanac would soon become grubby and dog-eared. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I’ve made money at Atlantic City using these counting strategies, and even considered having a specially designed ring made which would enable me to count more easily. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Intricately whorled and squirled, the braid trimming was designed to call attention to her modest bust already helped out by two rows of ruffles pinned to her corset cover. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Clearly the palace estate had been designed to draw in visitors and astound them with the splendor and glory of the Golden Crescent. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Dressed in forest green, they were wearing helmets designed to fend off tiger attacks—metal shields covered the backs of their necks. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z In 1937 they sent up an emergency flare for help; this brought them Laslett, one of Lawrence’s most valued assistants, who advised them that their magnet had been ill designed and misengineered. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Something whirred and ticktocked at an uneven pace, and Emily finally zeroed in on a glass case with a structure inside designed to keep marbles perpetually moving up in buckets, down slides, and around sprockets. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It’s a hypothetical molecular-engineering technology in which objects are designed and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate atom. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were designed for winter wear, when treacherous drafts came down chimneys and insidious currents of deadly cold found their way through keyholes. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was a tiny curse. The kind designed for mischievous immortal children.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But they aren't designed to hold twenty days' worth of output. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Warships are designed to withstand the strike of a torpedo or the blast of a mine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But of all that Michell accomplished, nothing was more ingenious or had greater impact than a machine he designed and built for measuring the mass of the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Jammed over one ear was a gold crown, clearly designed for a human head. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Here in the middle of the Middle West an escape route, a road designed by fear. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z More than 5,000 years ago, before the time of the pyramids, the ancient Egyptians designed a system for transcribing their decimal system, where pictures stood for numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z While each episode is a self-contained narrative designed to illuminate one propitious moment with as much storytelling skill as I can muster, taken together they feature several common themes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It lifts free of the model easily, as though designed to do so. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Their death-in-prison sentences were insulated from legal challenges or appeals by a maze of procedural rules, statutes of limitations, and legal barricades designed to make successful postconviction challenges almost impossible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Closer to home, the tobacco industry—and so the Piedmont region—would benefit from a bill wending its way through Congress, legislation designed to keep tobacco support payments steady and high. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The table is a poorly designed piece that Harold made in his student days. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe Roz was designed to think and learn and change; she had simply done those things better than anyone could have imagined. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It looks like someone lifted the top off a large pool table, designed a course on it, and dropped it in the middle of Grace’s room. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z They had been designed that way on purpose. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If Ibn al-Haytham offered plenty of real experiments, medieval philosophy is also full of thought experiments designed to test the implications of theories. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The poor drill wasn't designed to operate constantly for so long. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take a flyer, please. My daughter designed it,” she tells everyone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Stanton’s cousin, Elizabeth Smith Miller, had designed the outfit in 1851, but after Amelia Bloomer published an article about “Turkish trousers” in the Lily, the “costume” was popularly referred to as “bloomers.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “We were . . . smart. And I think it might be part of the Variables. But most importantly, Teresa and I have a . . . gift that made us very valuable as they designed and built this place.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Coach seats are not designed for people our height. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z In order to provide raking and flanking fire along every wall, forts needed to be designed on the page, with carefully measured angles and distances. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z While they had dinner, Fuchs told Gold that the atomic bomb was being designed at a place called Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The colonial state was authoritarian, a benignly brutal dictatorship designed to benefit Britain. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The leaves are harvested with a machine that Earthbound designed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The words themselves are marvels, each one perfectly designed for its use. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d even seen a glimpse of her deepest desire, shown to her by the Sirens’ magic Annabeth had imagined her mother and father together, standing in front of a newly rebuilt Manhattan, designed by Annabeth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The Doors of Death seemed like a personal insult, designed to remind him of everything he couldn’t have. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and prevent the true nature of present- day society from being perceived. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was no more than a thin cover, designed to keep the light and dust off the glass that it covered. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Eventually an experiment can be reliably mass-produced by manufacturing special equipment designed to obtain precisely that result—the equipment and the results are interdependent. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Before he left for his month at The Lovely Condominium, Branwell had shown me a birth announcement that he had designed. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother walks through the snitch box—a metal detector designed to make sure no one is bringing guns on the island. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not very convenient, and each time I filled it I mentally designed bigger and better pockets on my deer-hide suit-to-be. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The animals and plants on Earth and the structures of our buildings are all evolved or designed for 1 g. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My only worry is that every time I’ve wanted something to go a certain way in all of this, it’s gone the other, designed perfectly to challenge me with the unknown. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Also I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At fifty-seven, with her short, squat figure and intimidating hairnet, my grandmother was perfectly designed for blocking people’s paths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As in the case of many misanthropes, his disdain for people led him into a profession designed to serve them. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z And the Enola Gay was loaded with extra fuel and the bomb—fifteen thousand pounds more cargo than the B-29 was designed to carry. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The work was designed and done by Michelangelo himself. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z MGF Oil Corporation also announced that it was entering into a venture to build a forty- story-plus world-class luxury hotel to be designed by I. M. Pei. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, we designed it that way. I mean, that’s why my parents wanted a big house. We lived in a small two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, so...” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Hamilton resisted the recommendation, arguing quite plausibly that such a specific proposal was inappropriate for an address designed to operate at a higher altitude. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I found myself unconsciously urging the spacecraft at least to stand on its tiptoes, as if this laboratory, designed for immobility, were perversely refusing to manage even a little hop. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Three years later a hotel they had designed in Kansas City collapsed during construction, injuring several men and killing one. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It was designed by Roman demigods,” Jason said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The sun doesn’t shine much in Syracuse, so the art room is designed to get every bit of light it can. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z On first seeing the broken ride, I'd assumed it was designed to pause at frequent intervals, allowing those onboard to feel the full effect of their discomfort. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Developers designed a 200-unit project to provide low-cost housing for families living in the path of the new crosstown expressway. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Dad was a partner in an architecture firm that mostly designed museums and concert halls and other “centerpieces for urban living.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He had also—quite without meaning to—designed a beautiful economic experiment. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Perfectly round, immensely hard and light—they couldn’t have been designed better. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Tall and beautifully proportioned, rising from its base to flare gracefully and then round to the mouth, a prunus vase was designed for one purpose—to display a single branch of flowering plum. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Since most of the students were transient and many had behavior problems, the curriculum was designed more to keep us out of trouble than on grade level. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It was designed by a manufacturer called Jackson. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And no pleasanter light was ever designed, although old timers say that whale oil makes a nicer flame. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This was slightly complicated by the fact that the bowls were designed to curve as they rolled. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Within a year, Dad designed a scaffold that made him the fastest bricklayer on the job. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z His true luxuries were a fish pond and a garden, designed and built by himself, something he’d first done as a teenager. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Development of the institutions designed to make the city heir to Athenian intellectual greatness, the Museum and Great Library, was already well under way under the first Ptolemy. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It feels more designed to keep us in lockdown than to decimate 13. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “No, Reynard, in this case simplicity is essential. My Whisperer is designed to soothe troubled minds, and nothing soothes the mind more effectively than a simple answer to a complicated problem.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Whether Blanche died as a result of treatments designed to cure an illness that would eventually become known as schizophrenia or from suicide or another cause altogether was known only to her doctors and family. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z In his free time he designed a wide variety of airships and spacecraft. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything was designed to be packed away quickly or abandoned. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Now more than ever she could have used the Thunderhead’s AI guidance as she browsed through its data files, because the worldwide public camera system seemed designed to thwart her efforts. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The protein bar or Pop-Tart is designed to be consumed in the car on the way to school or to work. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The new jack, never used and bright with factory paint, was stiff and unruly, and it was not designed for the overhang of Rocinante. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He was probably a turncoat—a programmer who intentionally coded back doors and security holes into a system he designed, so that he could later sell them on the black market. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Their plan was designed to keep integration at a minimum. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The fourth was a gesture toward the northern interests, authorizing Congress to levy a tax on slave imports designed to discourage the practice without prohibiting it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z If Lkossa had been designed like a pie—a circle cut into thick, even slices—then this had to be its center. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z These locks on my head, I designed it. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z Essentially, the resolution was designed to grant the president the power to order further attacks in Vietnam without asking Congress for a formal declaration of war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “It was designed by a very well-known mortal age architect,” Scythe Curie told Citra as she led the way across a footbridge to the front door. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z "It's designed to get the ship back if we all die or something. They can take over Hermes from Mission Control." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Apartheid was a police state, a system of surveillance and laws designed to keep black people under total control. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But these machines were different, designed for different jobs. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Liddy refused to put the lead hunk into his shoe—the limp-inducing device was part of his cover, designed to distract passersby from his face, but it was just too painful. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “This is our big shot, guys. It’s like they designed the Excelsior for a Hibbleflitt!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z We also talked to the engineers who had designed the spacecraft, and exchanged ideas with them for improvements. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure it was perfectly clear to the engineers who designed it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Evan tells Gogol that it’s an apartment worth seeing, a Tribeca loft that happens to be designed by one of the partners at the firm. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Of course not, Sheriff. Jane is terrible with a rifle. I was thinking more along the lines of the sickle, a weapon designed specifically for the close-combat techniques of an Attendant.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I designed for both of them literally dozens of insulting, sub-normal, but quite constructive, drawing exercises. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z At nineteen he had designed a hand grenade which had been adopted by the Ministry of Peace and which, at its first trial, had killed thirty-one Eurasian prisoners in one burst. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was too feminine—a woman’s room designed by a man—and overdone, too feminine. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And it can take the fear and boredom out of grammar, because it’s always more inviting to master a system when you have a clear idea of what it is designed to accomplish. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The seat was comfier than a leather recliner, and the dashboard looked like it had been designed by NASA. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z —Fortune Kether: an artist—renowned publicly for his frescoes and privately for the catapults and siege engines he designed for skirmishing kings. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It’s designed to stay afloat under the most adverse conditions. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The answer is simple: an experiment is an artificial test designed to answer a question. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Water was splashed in our eyes by a strange piece of equipment designed to do just that, but it didn’t seem to help. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “We designed them that way so that the PSFs wouldn’t be able to accidentally pick up on a signal being transmitted from them. I promise, you’re in control here, Ruby.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z As usual, I'm working with stuff that was deliberately designed not to burn. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “You want something specially designed for you! That’s just plain brilliant, Melody!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The writing can be bloated, self-conscious, academic; these are habits that classic style, which treats prose as a window onto the world, is designed to break. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was a small, short-barreled, pocket-size handgun designed for concealment, not combat. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything he did was designed to distance her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There are pieces of public life, of giving up one’s privacy to become a walking, talking symbol of a nation, that can seem specifically designed to strip away part of your identity. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Everything in it was designed for animals who looked, moved and thought differently from the way we did. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I inspected its nozzle and thought it crudely designed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Right before I’d gone on my first quest, Luke had given me a gift, too— magic shoes that had been designed to drag me to my death. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I get a good haul from the traps—eight rabbits, two squirrels, and a beaver that swam into a wire contraption Gale designed himself. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I feel like I'm in an elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption that someone else designed. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “This whole game is just designed to make us hate ourselves.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I’m a person on legs, which are designed for this purpose. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Because most of it just wasn’t the kind of stuff I'd want everyone in the whole world finding out about on some new perverted website designed by our demented scrum half. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Originally, Archimedes had designed it to pluck enemy ships out of the water. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Apparently the machines were designed to process filtered seawater. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He designed it to channel their talent and resources into productive activities that served the public interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She came inside to eat, but most of her time was spent outside in the pen, slumped in the A-frame doghouse our father had designed and crafted from scrap pieces of redwood. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He avowed that even if we proved that guerrilla war had not been approved and our policy of sabotage was designed not to sacrifice human life, the state could still impose the death sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The secrecy, dating back to the previous October, was designed to conceal from the International Olympic Committee the political and ideological source of the film’s funding. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Akimi turned around and whispered, “My dad designed the support structure for that thing. Check out the hinges.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z With their recommendation, most of the redecorated locker room stays as we designed it, tweaked only to comply with the fire code and the janitor's needs. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He successfully lobbied for Washington to head the Continental Army and personally selected Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence, two strategic decisions designed to assure Virginia’s support for the cause. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Congress’s rejection of funds to develop a supersonic transport in 1971, the world’s continued rejection of an efficiently designed typewriter keyboard, and Britain’s long reluctance to adopt electric lighting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While electrician at Auburn prison, he designed both the first electric chair and testing procedures for it that involved large slabs of meat. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial with her arms crossed, looking extremely pleased with herself, like she’d personally designed the place. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “But it does have quite a pedigree. It was designed by Hudson Clark.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Catherine and I research all kinds of electronic talking and communication devices that have been designed for people like me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “We learned about them during the orientation for new citizens. They’re designed to penetrate deep in the ground before they go off. Because there’s no point in bombing Thirteen on the surface anymore.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The outside entrance was designed to look like a bistro from a small Italian village. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z All well and good, but for our purposes these otherwise-valuable insights are mere subplots almost designed to carry us down side trails while blithely humming a tune about the rough equivalence of forests and trees. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was as though the room had been designed to be hosed out for efficient cleaning. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z "Actually, they're designed that way. You don't need to lace up." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z And the beauty of it was, since they were designed for working on toys, they were nearly all miniature, easily small enough for us to handle. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The bolt was designed to withstand immense forces; if necessary to carry the entire weight of the payload. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was designed to be unfinished, so that lean-tos could jut out as they were needed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The work was designed by Michelangelo but done by someone else. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z A quite separate argument was the claim that the universe has been designed to serve a purpose, like a clock or any other complex machine, and that it therefore demonstrates the existence of God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And with those words Mami sealed a pact she had designed, written, and signed for me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Leo had designed the mess hall’s walls to show real-time scenes from Camp Half-Blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They rowed in a much smaller shell, just fifty-two feet long, with short oars and small blades, all designed to accommodate their smaller bodies. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On West Harrison Street in Chicago, two miles west of the city’s downtown, there is an ornate, block-long building designed and built in the early part of the last century. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z While in Munich, he also designed and laid out the famous park known as the English Garden. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It is being designed so that four people will be able to stay aboard for long periods of time, working in a laboratory, exploring ideas that involve gravity or the lack of it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The fireworks were by Gandalf: they were not only brought by him, but designed and made by him; and the special effects, set pieces, and flights of rockets were let off by him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z We got a hastily scheduled hearing in the trial court in Dothan, where I tried to present evidence that the bomb Herbert had constructed was designed to go off at a certain time. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z This Congressional Gold Medal was designed specifically for us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The entrance was designed to look like the facade of a castle, and you entered the maze through its open gates. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Guerrilla warfare, he explained, was not designed to win a military victory so much as to unleash political and economic forces that would bring down the enemy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All of the wedding gowns he designed for me went back to the Capitol, but there are some dresses I wore on the Victory Tour. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “The superbomb can be designed to be either relatively clean or very dirty,” Lapp wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Other idiophones, though, like xylophones, are designed to ring at more particular frequencies. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I designed a site with us running hand in hand through some kind of field. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “A number designed to rank my intelligence in relation to the entire human population,” said Jake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Problem: The drills weren't designed for construction projects. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They were standard television spots designed simply to raise awareness. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Here the cabinets were designed to keep human beings from coming into direct contact with Nature. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My own apartment was, I believe, originally designed as a one-bedroom flat with a dining room, kitchen, living room, and nursery. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “I’d never seen it before,” Dr. Strayer said, adding that the challenge of the dual tasks “are designed to destroy most people.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Starting perhaps a hundred feet below them on the steeper side of the mountain, the patch might have been designed expressly for fuel. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z If the segregation laws were designed to reduce friction by keeping the races apart, in practice they had the opposite effect. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Tally had never seen so much space painted in such putrid colors, as if the building were designed to make its occupants vaguely nauseated. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was designed for pushing on, ever on, not for dipping in and out of. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Ecologically, the region is a treasure, but one designed and executed by human beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The machine is designed to use the weight of water to lift half a tank of water while the other half balances it by going downwards. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There were sightseeing trips up the Swiss Alps designed as getaways for relaxation, but these excursions only taxed Ernest’s weakened constitution. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Of course they are. This test material is specially designed—” “It’s just a bunch of dumb, random facts,” Annabeth insisted. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It was designed to increase the speed, lower prices, and raise the volume of sales. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z The coin was not actually minted until the 1830s, when it was used in Sierra Leone, the African colony designed for freed slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He designed each story to hook the audience within minutes so that people didn’t turn the dial to another program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z At our meeting, we told him that we intended to organize a Youth League and a campaign of action designed to mobilize mass support. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were stealing money and goods from the gas station, and they were operating in numbers that seemed designed to intimidate anyone, like Zeitoun, who might see them or try to impede them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The buildings, in fact, had been designed to maximize the salvage value of their components. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Leo could think of all kinds of fun things the statue might do if he had designed it, but the more he examined it, the more frustrated he got. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He and two other pilots traveled from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, in the United States, flying in a special long-distance plane designed by Andrey Tupolev. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She was born in Virginia in the 1880s, after federal troops had been withdrawn and a reign of violence and terror had begun, designed to deny any political or social rights for African Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Apollo machinery was being designed with two separate spacecraft, which would rendezvous and dock with each other while in orbit around the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There would be no disregarding this sound, which seems designed to throw the whole population into a frenzy. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Then, again led by Paul and Burns, they went on a hunger strike, a strategy designed to attract public attention to what the denial of women’s right to vote had led to. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In 1896 he gave up his German citizenship to avoid military conscription and entered the Zurich Polytechnic Institute on a four-year course designed to churn out high school science teachers. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Before the mid-seventeenth century, gears were laid out and cut by hand; Hooke designed the first machine to produce identical gears, thus making possible the mass production of machinery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Susan Calvin did not allow herself to relax, despite the designed comfort of the chair she sat in. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Also available are episode-specific craft packages, a line of print fabrics designed by Paisley, and a weekly class focusing on a craft from the show. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow and torment me. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The virus was designed to slowly weaken in infection rate as it spreads from host to host. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The leather grip fit his hand like it had been custom designed for him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Prison is designed to break one’s spirit and destroy one’s resolve. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Gay somehow knew that I had never recovered my dolls from Mrs. Moss and gave me a doll designed to look like me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It was their job to prepare the uranium for the bomb being designed at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He designed a house for John Walker, president of the yards, and met Walker’s daughter, Mary. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A large portion of the building’s north end collapsed, which in turn caused the failure of an elevated gallery designed to ring the interior of the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He had seen people carrying kids in specially designed backpacks, but his family didn’t have money for that sort of stuff. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t shoot real bullets,” I say, “but it seems like they designed it so it would be as close as possible to one of the guns you’ll be using. It feels real, anyway.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He also campaigned for mandatory meat inspections in Germany, designed a sewer system for Berlin, and founded a nursing school and hospitals. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Here is a system designed to eliminate pleasure for everyone involved. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Advertising matters,” I told Papi, and I designed the whole thing. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z That route had been designed to be easy to follow, and had included a helicopter ride with the rangers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The Last Friend app is designed for lonely Deckers and for any good soul who wants to keep a Decker company in their final hours. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The rover was designed to support three people for two days, plus some reserve for safety. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This place was designed for an extended stay. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The Full-Scale Tunnel, the linchpin of the lab’s World War II drag cleanup work, continued to test everything from low-speed aircraft designed with delta wings to helicopters. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I guess it was designed to be an offer I couldn’t refuse, but I’d have rather spent the summer in a Siberian labor camp than live with my uncle and his spoiled kids. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z There is no evidence that anyone has been here in a long time except for the smell, that sickly sour stench designed to keep the living from the dead. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Already he was polishing a few carefully worded accusations designed to reduce his mother to repentance or, at least, confusion. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fixers were designed to replicate under strictly regulated conditions, but the damaged Fixer replicates uncontrollably, at an exponential rate, using whatever materials are at hand. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Such statements seemed almost designed to invite misunderstanding, which is precisely what they did. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Indeed, the act of exhorting was designed to enhance the prospect by talking about it as if it were a foregone conclusion, which Washington most assuredly knew it was not. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Farmer, the anthropologist, designed his own study centered on a random group of about two hundred women in Cange. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “I just found out that I have an early showing of one of the houses I designed this afternoon, for one of my biggest clients. I’ll meet you at the university by four.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The critical components are designed to survive a vacuum. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1930s and early 1940s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt began to roll out the New Deal—a massive public works and investment program designed to lift the nation out of a severe depression. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In other words, if one used equipment designed to examine electrons as particles, they would appear to behave as particles; if one used equipment best suited for detecting waves, they appeared as waves. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The nets were designed to leach condensation out of the cool night air, and were an important supplementary source of water in the Elmuthaleth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Shawn designed and welded the main frame—the massive beams that formed the skeleton of the building. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Jam could smell the saltfish buljol he was making, and as they heard her enter, they both turned and smiled in a way that was designed to hide their worry but failed terribly. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The office of the presidency, as he saw it, was designed to levitate above the party squabbles and transcend partisan versions of the national interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Park Forest, it turns out, was one of America’s first fully planned communities—not just a housing subdivision, but a full village designed for about thirty thousand people, with shopping malls, churches, schools, and parks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z According to that argument, we can tell that the universe has a creator because only an external agent could have designed and constructed it so that its different parts serve their specific functions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His features, which would later settle into pleasant collaboration, were growing at different rates, giving him a curious face that seemed designed by committee. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Astronomical instruments designed by Tycho Brahe serve as decorations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The yo-yo attached to Alex’s belt spun, trailing out thirty yards of specially designed advanced nylon cord. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z It was my second month of French class, and the teacher was leading us in an exercise designed to promote the use of one, our latest personal pronoun. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The log-out sequence was designed this way to prevent avatars from using it as an easy way to escape a fight. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z By the time Cicero reaches his peroration, he has asked something in the order of fifty questions to Catiline—each designed to make his failure to go into voluntary banishment look bizarre and unnatural. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Whoever designed New Rome had clearly poured a lot of time and love into the project. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I’m barely following his conversation, and following very much feels like the right word, because this conversation is designed for me to be at least five steps behind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z It is possible that the invention of antibodies evolved from the earlier sensing mechanisms needed for symbiosis, perhaps designed, in part, to keep the latter from getting out of hand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a small case there designed for the purpose of holding silver and plate. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z It would certainly be big enough, but it just isn't designed to hold in that much pressure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This fire is designed to flush us out, to drive us together. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z More repressive laws designed to suppress black anger sailed through Parliament with little opposition; more black informants were recruited to report on events in the ghettos. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Nuremberg Rally of 1934 was itself an anthem to power and a carefully designed tool for further concentrating and advancing it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It’s designed to give the patients a sense of freedom and open air in the midst of claustrophobic sterility. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z They withdraw from mixed neighborhoods into distant suburbs, gated communities, or guarded apartment towers; they shop in stores that, in line with the prevailing “market segmentation,” are designed to appeal to the affluent alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Started in 1964 as a federal initiative, Job Corps was designed to help disadvantaged youth. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z These were of objects the helmet was designed to keep out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But the way she told her news stories was always designed to create a stir and get a reaction, and she was never disappointed. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Team Coding Queens had designed an app that predicted the future. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It has fancy paper that is thick and yellow, with golden flowers designed in the corners. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The techniques and training were not designed for the boys at all but only to make Cyrus a great man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The mission is designed to handle sandstorm gusts up to 150 kph. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The humidity inside the Hab is a lot higher than it was designed for, so the water reclaimer is constantly filtering it out of the air. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Permian was easily victorious with a 41-13 score, but if the outburst was designed to steer the players toward greater discipline, it didn’t work. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is Raven. My virtual assistant. She’s a computer program designed to assist players in the scavenger hunt.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In Galen’s view the hand of a healthy person was designed to be the proper measure of hot and cold, damp and dry, soft and hard. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This sound was stripped of the multiple layers and intricacies of counterpoint, and designed for clarity and instant sensual impact. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The Hephaestus cabin had designed the bead this year. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z "Major Martinez will pilot the MAV remotely from Hermes. It's already designed for remote piloting. It was remotely landed, after all." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem with the rovers' pop-tents is they weren't designed for frequent use. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Wireless companies “designed everything to keep people talking in their cars.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Ours was a small landing ship designed for troops, not one of the huge LSTs that carried in trucks and tanks. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The ritual seemed designed to send a message. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was so named because it was designed to shuttle back and forth between Cape Canaveral and earth orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He loathed the clatter and smoke of steam launches; he wanted electric boats designed specifically for the park, with emphasis on graceful lines and silent operation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z These were designed to keep the new tin helmets from freezing to the head. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There would be ninety-six tanks to each oval, each holding two calutrons back to back, designed to beam uranium ions in 180-degree arcs four feet in radius from source to collector. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What they want is for me to truly take on the role they designed for me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Finally, Colonel Meecham began his descent, every step a deliberate one, tortoise-slow, designed to augment the impatience of his giddily avaricious offspring. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That each living thing was specially designed, that one species did not become another, were notions perfectly consistent with what our ancestors with their limited historical records knew about life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Those blankets were so scratchy, I wondered if the person who designed them thought: How can I make the world’s worst blanket? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Many of the residents, including Luke, attended Park- hill School on campus, which was designed for children with behavioral or emotional problems. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Jefferson’s initial draft of the Declaration of Independence had included language that described the slave trade as the perverse plot of an evil English monarch designed to contaminate innocent colonists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The statement, which was clearly designed to mollify conservatives, received an icy reception in Hayti. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The challenges of managing the prison—which was designed to hold twelve hundred inmates but instead had three times that number—were overwhelming. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It contains active definitions for musical terms; music lessons regarding the meanings of musical notation; and exercises designed to further understanding of musical notes, chords, and many other musical aspects. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z And the spy plane's structure had been designed for stealth, not strength. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He never taught me that they made no judgments about what people believed, but designed things for them within the confines of those beliefs. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z His father was a mechanical engineer who had designed or invented a new drill bit for oil drilling, a self-cleaning, self-sharpening bit. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z It was years before we realized that his unwieldy rules were designed to protect us from the evil possibilities of the mean-spirited world around us. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Prison is designed to break you, but I’m already shattered. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The torch slid into a holder clearly designed for it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Historians of astronomy trade insults on the question of whether there are equants in Copernicus or not; the answer is that there are no equants, but there are mechanisms designed to replicate equants. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Something whirred and ticktocked at an uneven pace, and Emily finally zeroed in on a glass case with a structure inside designed to keep marbles perpetually moving up in buckets, down slides, and around sprockets. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z This was not dangerous, for he rarely actually struck us at the table, but it was designed to show us all up as dull-witted, bovine females. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a strategy designed to remove the individual from the struggle, allowing him to live a narrowly defined life outside of politics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He writes back to inform her that it has been specifically designed to be manipulated by either side, so she may add whatever she wishes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When she received pictures of the most recent fashions in the mail, they only proved that she had not been wrong about the models that she designed herself and sewed on Amaranta’s primitive pedal machine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The hoses that connected the rover and trailer were designed well, and released without breaking. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Previously, all spacecraft had been designed to fly only once and then be retired to a museum. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But they may work at decided cross-purposes to what they are designed for. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He believes that the shape, colour and texture of a plant can be a clue to how it will work as a medicine because God designed nature to be interpreted by mankind. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I also was trying to learn from the Americans I was meeting around the country, holding roundtables designed to focus on work-family balance, an issue in which I had a keen interest. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There was a rumor that Seabiscuit’s lameness was a ruse designed to avoid a loss to War Admiral, and an awful lot of people believed it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea at the research lab in Workingham was something of a gimmick, a “media event” designed to show some of the emerging research. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Every night he hiked up the hill to a place called Shack Town, where he had found a cheap room in a long, rickety shedlike building designed to house single men. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z "And it'll be broadcasting. It's not a strong signal; it's only designed to go a couple hundred meters to the rover or Hab. But maybe we can pick it up." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And X identified an experimental plane still under development, designed for the purpose of research and testing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z C.P. didn’t add that the Klan SOS program was designed to frustrate desegregation, not implement it, but he didn’t have to. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z This was designed to bring down the house, and usually it did. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “A prank designed to lull the administration into a false sense of security,” the Colonel answered, annoyed by the distraction. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z It is carefully designed and proportioned, and yet it flows with graceful ease. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was pocked with multiple points of entry—vents, chimneys, small glass domes designed to let in the light. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “It’s not designed to have someone’s neck in it.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In a few cases, we also know something about the individuals who designed writing systems by blueprint copying in the remote past. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They had designed all these in the laboratory and finished a single pilot model of each just before the war began. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z As Mr. Curtain banged through the door to the Institute Control Building, it occurred to Reynie that every door in the Institute must have been designed to be opened in this violent manner. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z It had been designed, by the first Joseph Hooper, as a library, and there were still the glass cases, reaching from floor to ceiling, all around the room, filled with books. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Resistance to insecticides by mosquitoes of the anophelene group has surged upward at an astounding rate, being created by the thoroughness of the very house-spraying programs designed to eliminate malaria. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “There is a path designed for everyone and everyone must walk in his or her path. This is your path. You must walk it. To refuse would be...unfortunate.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He designed new instruments, capable of an exquisite precision. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Specific tactics included motorcades, parades, banners, billboards, transcontinental automobile trips, and speaking tours—all designed to educate the public about why women deserved the vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z But he is a good watch dog—has a roar like a lion, designed to conceal from night-wandering strangers the fact that he couldn’t bite his way out of a comet de papier. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon apartments originally designed for one family were being cut up into two- and three-family dwellings, and blacks, who had been confined previously to the West Forties, were allowed to move in. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Just as the period’s architects designed buildings from the same limited collection of motifs and shapes, Haydn and his contemporaries were designing music from a similarly limited catalogue. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The Archives was filled with little rooms like this, reading holes, designed to give members of the Arcanum a place to sit privately and study. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The nutrients, while suitable for the comfortable environment of a university microbiology laboratory, were not designed for the arid polar wasteland. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent a weekend visiting Craig at Princeton, where he seemed to have slipped into a productive rhythm of playing basketball, taking classes, and hanging out at a campus center designed for minority students. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z All doormen, for example, and all policemen have by now, for me, become exactly the same, and my style with them is designed simply to intimidate them before they can intimidate me. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Another time, Langan took an IQ test specially designed for people too smart for ordinary IQ tests. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “They seem to be designed to be read by someone who knows Shay quite well. By you, perhaps.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “What a coincidence! It’s also where I'm strongest. This tank is specially designed to contain demigods. Now, have fun, you two. I’ll see you at feeding time!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And so animals have a full system of cautionary signals designed to avoid a showdown, and they are quick to back down when they feel they can. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Since the barricade was designed to stop vehicles, not pedestrians, we’re able to walk around it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Before the 1970s, government policy was designed to support small farmers, not agribusiness. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As he builds the assassination scheme in his head, layer by layer, everything is designed to make him the star performer. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “The great colleges and universities were designed to provide for mobility, to seek out talent,” said Anthony W. Marx, president of Amherst College. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Felicia designed great circles of overlapping shells on the sand, as if someone on the moon, or farther still, might read their significance. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Others warned Smith that War Admiral’s bad works may have been designed to fool Smith about the colt’s condition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Inevitably it follows that intensive spraying with powerful chemicals only makes worse the problem it is designed to solve. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We baked, we watched crime dramas and designed beaded bracelets. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Their teacher, a charming eight-months-pregnant young woman dressed in a traditional Indian sari, moved seamlessly among British, American, and Canadian accents as she demonstrated reading a paragraph designed to highlight phonetics. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z No more, and no less, and it had been designed for the same purpose; namely, the sanctification of power. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z They are not designed to kill, but to frighten animals and people. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “The factions, the video Edith Prior left us . . . all lies, designed to make us behave a particular way.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The Argo II was designed like an ancient trireme, only twice as big. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The rover heater is designed to heat air at one atmosphere, and the thin Martian air severely hampers its ability to work. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Talking Robot was designed to answer questions, and only such questions as it could answer had ever been put to it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It shone upon the rows of armored suits, the edges of the swords and axes, and on spear tips and a thousand other pointy objects designed to spoil your day permanently. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It was as if he were somehow responsible for her beauty and stature, as if he'd personally designed her spots and trained her to grow to the size of a pony. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Suburban homemakers could have been placed under surveillance and subjected to undercover operations designed to catch them violating laws regulating the use and sale of prescription “uppers.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Training Center has a tower designed exclusively for the tributes and their teams. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z "Martin's mother wanted it designed as a greenhouse, too," says Shanti. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Light social conversation, designed to keep the party going, prevails. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The ventilation system was not designed for so many people, and everyone had been working every waking moment without much time for personal hygiene. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But not one of the spells he had practiced had been designed to combat a sudden reversal of ground and sky. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It was a 1955 edition of Jet magazine, a publication primarily designed for black readers, and the photograph on the front showed a dead boy’s mutilated head, face, and neck—up close. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Like most Americans I am no lover of cops, and the consistent investigation of city forces for bribery, brutality, and a long and picturesque list of malfeasances is not designed to reassure me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And then there was lunch to make and, after lunch, work to be done on the bridesmaids’ dresses for Beverly’s wedding, which she had designed and was sewing herself. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the shower seemed to have been designed for someone approximately three feet, seven inches tall, so the cold water hit my lower rib cage—with all the force of a dripping faucet. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Now called the Sugar Act, the law was designed to make sure the American colonists stopped smuggling and paid their sugar tax. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Catt had remained dedicated to traditional lobbying—privately meeting with legislators and the president to persuade them to support suffrage—whereas Paul’s campaign had been designed to humiliate the president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Something novel, original, daring and unique must be designed and built if American engineers are to retain their prestige and standing.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My dad was still tuned in, however, playing sofa soldier from the pullout in the office, the one with the metal bar underneath the seat cushions, specially designed to ensure maximum discomfort. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Each rally was also designed to teach people how to vote. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I studied the people and saw the worry carved into their faces like a carefully designed mask. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z But—her version of the Adams internal ricochet—“the Hand of Providence ought to be attended to, and what is designed, cheerfully submitted to.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “This is Raven. My virtual assistant. She’s a computer program designed to assist players in the scavenger hunt.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The Nazis call these leaflets enemy propaganda, designed to undermine German morale. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z In addition to being a fascinating tale designed to catch your attention, it introduces themes that reverberate throughout all the stories that follow by serving as the exception that proves the rule. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I designed a Nature Hike Anklet, which leaves a trail of bright yellow dye when you walk, so in case you get lost, you can find your way back. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z There was a metal stud on the belt he was wearing and he slammed the yo-yo against it, feeling it click into place, as it had been designed to. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “I know you designed the attack simulation. I knowyou’re responsible for my parents’ deaths—for my mothers death. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It was a wooden box designed to look like a raven. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He said I’d been educated according to a rigorous program designed by my mother, who’d made sure I met all the requirements to graduate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It had been designed to reach an altitude of five miles. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The newspaper was thin, ill-edited, and designed to circulate among rural, white Protestant readers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Unarmed and defenseless against enemy fighters or antiaircraft fire, the U-2 was purpose-built to house powerful cameras designed for the CIA by Edwin Land, the founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was designed to house low-risk inmates in dormitory complexes rather than cell blocks. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Tests were designed to let a moron pull at least a B. You’ll kill them. If you don’t come back to the Hollows. Are you? Coming back, I mean?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Ceaugescu’s ban on abortion was designed to achieve one of his major aims: to rapidly strengthen Romania by boosting its population. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For the reception he changes into a suit, she into a red Banarasi gown with spaghetti straps, something she’d designed herself and had made by a seamstress friend. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't designed for long trips, or even overnighters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It had to be a stratagem, designed to lull Volantene suspicions. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sword wasn’t designed for that, but the Celestial bronze blade sliced through the chains suspending the hydra. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Kainene dusted herself down carefully, but the ground was wet and the mud had stuck to her clothes; her blue dress looked designed with chocolate-colored smudges. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z These bureaucratic minefields are the modern-day equivalent of poll taxes and literacy tests—“colorblind” rules designed to make voting a practical impossibility for a group defined largely by race. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He designed it himself with Count Rugen’s help, and he sent his hirelings across the world to stock it for him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z "The crew may have to fix things here and there, but they're well trained. Remember, Hermes was made to do all five Ares missions. It's only halfway through its designed life span." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. There can be no mistake. They were a family heirloom. There are no two others like them. My grandmother had them designed and made to order.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z By understanding how the various features of grammar are designed to make sharing possible, we can put them to use in writing more clearly, correctly, and gracefully. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z New laws went into effect specifically designed to quell black anger. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was a deliberate test,” said Nixon, “clearly designed to take the measure of me and my administration at the outset.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Legislation designed to preserve white supremacy entrenches this notion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The first couple of days we spent in a classroom, studying an Air Force manual designed to help pilots who made emergency landings in strange places. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end they’d designed something implausible, a town house of poured concrete with a glass facade. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But soon the Klan evolved into a multistate terrorist organization designed to frighten and kill emancipated slaves. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The new invitation, designed by Ashima, the English translation lettered by Gogol, is the only thing that isn’t a leftover. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “These are designed to subdue background noise,” Mom explains. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z It is evidently designed for the homeostasis of the earth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Descriptivists believe that the rules of correct usage are nothing more than the secret handshake of the ruling class, designed to keep the masses in their place. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was all purple and white and yellow, like some artist had designed an impossible bloom without worrying about composition, like he went wild and let it all go. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The terrain seemed to be designed so that Percy could never let his guard down. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Those who swelled their little unarmed strength into the reckoning one of leagues, clubs, societies, sisterhoods designed to hold or withhold, move or stay put, make a way, solicit, comfort and ease. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z This place is designed to remind us again and again that we’re not really human. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Courts have repeatedly found the prison unconstitutionally overcrowded, with almost twice the number of women incarcerated as it was designed to hold. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z One boy says, under his breath, that he’s heard it’s designed to target each individual’s weaknesses. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The men who had designed my truck had not anticipated the load I would carry. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He described for Olmsted a vision of a dream city designed by America’s greatest architects and covering an expanse at least one-third larger than the Paris fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I wonder what these people do for a living because this place belongs in a magazine—Chinese lanterns, what appears to be real artwork, and intricately designed rugs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Project Mercury was designed to do that, but again the Russians got there first, and put the first human being into orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything otherwise was designed to accommodate our well-being as students. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Billy designed this for our anniversary, after we lost Marcus. We both got one.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z His penmanship was a sure indicator that he would have had a future at MIT, the minuscule mechanical pencil marks designed to maximize the amount of cryptic data a genius could record on one page. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z They were “circular meccas of neon,” in the words of drive- in historian Michael Witzel, designed to be easily spotted from the road. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Instead, a number of established firms designed patterns and prepared the fabric, and then the complicated stitching and pressing and button attaching were all sent out to small contractors. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But English is more flexible than what a logician would have designed, and the context generally makes it clear what the speaker means. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The theory behind his idea was that the sharp throat I’d designed made for a hot spot along its thin edge. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He did not see the task as a ticket to fame, so he designed what he called a “quickie experiment” involving a single neutron detector placed in a stairway outside the cyclotron room. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They were designed to capture antelopes, but I’d seen bonobos at the sanctuary with hands or feet missing from snares like those. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “We did,” said Maria Carlos, who was wearing a peregrine T-shirt she had designed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Our bodies were viewed as mere vehicles, pasty, potbellied machines designed to transport our thoughts from one place to another. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z If Jeanine designed this, it is probably a test of intelligence or logic, which means I will have to think clearly, which means I will have to calm down. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The Prince selected the location—the farthest corner of the castle grounds, away from everything, so the roars wouldn’t bother the servants—but the Count designed the entrance. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z If he was going to order a new shell, he wanted it custom designed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The work was neither designed nor done by Michelangelo. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z My stylist and friend, Cinna, who designed the gorgeous outfits that first made the audience take notice of me in the Hunger Games. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The only actual poll I ever took myself was informal and designed to answer the burning question: What percentage of college women enjoy watching the Three Stooges? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather, from its inception, it was designed to be a containment zone. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Pleiades Corp designed these luxury vessels to take rich people across the galaxy in comfort. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Never before in human history had farms been run this way, as machines designed to satisfy just one craving of buyers who could be thousands of miles away. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z This is a farm policy that is not designed to help farmers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Consequently, the Constitution was designed so the federal government would be weak, not only in its relationship to private property, but also in relationship to the rights of states to conduct their own affairs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z These were round buttons designed by Hyacinth with help from her button machine. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I had effectively mastered the tones and accent by obsessive listening at night to audio lessons designed for state department employees. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Its vocal ranges were operatic, its naturalistic acting style more like that of a play, its structure of spoken plot-carrying scenes interspersed with verse-chorus- designed songs akin to those in musicals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The buildings were freshly whitewashed, laid out in neat grids like the camp had been designed by a fussy math teacher. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It had been built in the 1950s and was designed as a co-op, meant to ease a post-World War II housing shortage for black working-class families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the tape, she’s playing with a software program designed to teach algebra. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z On the way here, in my copious free time, I designed a "workshop." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A choice made by the manufacturer when the computer was designed determines this, and nothing can change it now. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This system is better designed to create crime, and a perpetual class of people labeled criminals, rather than to eliminate crime or reduce the number of people under the system’s control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z On January 15, 1872, they staged a nighttime march to voice their anger over laws they felt were designed to penalize a single class, namely the poor. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Like Washington, he saw Jay’s Treaty as a shrewd if bittersweet bargain designed to postpone war with England for perhaps a generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He also had a thin, scraggly beard that seemed designed to proclaim him older than he was. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z But the broader problem, which we shall look at now, is the fact that our chemical attack is weakening the defenses inherent in the environment itself, defenses designed to keep the various species in check. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Navigation instruments were being designed, but no one really knew how accurate they would be, and they had to be very, very precise. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, the room was abuzz with activity as technicians sealed Iris into the specially designed shipping container. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, it was a prison designed by our oppressors, but it also gave us a sense of self-determination and control. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z These suits were designed to fit each cosmonaut. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “Look! This is how a rocket nozzle works, why it’s designed as it is. Did you even bother to read about De Laval nozzles?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And now she was talking to him in a way that was not foolish and childlike, designed to entrance, but instead was human and pained and adult. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The community theater downtown was designed with the pageant in mind, which means the women’s dressing room is four times the size of the men’s. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Be more careful, Mike. The law was designed to save, not to destroy.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The expedited work was finished by the end of May, and a vast circular building near Strawberry Canyon originally designed to house the world’s biggest cyclotron became the headquarters of an entirely different project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “It is a number of procedures designed to uncover truths. I believe it is pronounced ‘tor-turé.’ Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It was clear they’d been designed to go there; they fit snugly. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Olmsted’s memory was not so destroyed that he did not realize he himself had designed McLean’s grounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then, after the sturdy White Stag, come the breezy, revealing Faded Glory, No Boundaries, and Jordache collections, designed for the younger and thinner crowd. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If we designed our orbital town to spin, there would be weightlessness only at the center. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a heavy, solid construction designed for stolid floating, not for navigating, though I suppose that if we had been thirty-two to row we could have made some headway. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Mama shows me things that are either straight from the Middle Ages or designed for someone who’s middle-aged. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Wrestling is one of those sports designed for people who’ve lived tough lives. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Every major airline now has what is called “Crew Resource Management” training, which is designed to teach junior crew members how to communicate clearly and assertively. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The clock was designed by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens - who incidentally had published essays on the physics of music - and built by clockmaker Salomon Coster. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Mr. Lapham’s selections for his boys were sometimes designed to point out some fault in a member of his household, especially in the reader. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But this was, after all, Sayle’s private house and any security would have been designed to stop people coming in, not leaving. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z It was carefully designed, like someone had spent a lot of time thinking about it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Not in a regular bathtub, but in a special pool designed for having babies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z This island was designed to be off the charts, impossible to leave. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And none more so than Joe, to whom the whole thing seemed like another joke at his expense, designed to show him up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She curled snugly along the inside of my body, so easy and natural, as if she had been designed to fit there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z However, all the messages sent by Morse code were false, designed to fool any Japanese monitoring our transmissions. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z "It seemed designed to be as uncomfortable as possible, and it was," he recalled. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was Chacko who christened the factory Paradise Pickles & Preserves and had labels designed and printed at Comrade K. N. M. Pillai’s press. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not a move designed to elicit arousal, but it was certainly a designed move, because Augustus Waters was no improviser. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Only a week earlier he had found himself in the humiliating position of having to ride in a wheelchair through Union Station in Washington, D.C., the station he had designed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This was negative air pressure, designed to keep hot agents from drifting outward. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All systems were designed for worst-case scenarios; each did its job admirably. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything here was designed to hurt and kill. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Government linguists devised the modified Roman alphabet adopted in 1928 by Turkey for writing Turkish, as well as the modified Cyrillic alphabets designed for many tribal languages of Russia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It clearly wasn’t designed for eating or performing odd jobs around the campfire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Each time he passed the mantel he winced, dreading the raised eyebrows of his guests as they viewed the flickering ceramic saints, the salt and pepper shakers designed to resemble Mary and Joseph. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z One portion of the lakefront, named Burnham Park in his honor, contains Soldier Field and the Field Museum, which he designed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Within two days the observation platform was designed and built and lifted into place. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There was something just too creepy about the genetically designed creatures to consider getting close to them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z After all, she designed the system, so of course she would describe it in the best possible light. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It is this kind of sound that we most often associate with music, and that many musical instruments are designed to make. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The cat car was followed by eight Winnebago-sized vehicles, their sides covered with vinyl graphics designed to make them look like bookshelves on wheels. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Later they showed me magazines designed exclusively for mobile dwellers, stories and poems and hints for successful mobile living. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Historians will likely wonder how we could describe the new caste system as a system of crime control, when it is difficult to imagine a system better designed to create—rather than prevent—crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His strict rules were designed as an invisible form of protection for us, and in many ways they reflected Birmingham’s segregation laws. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Camp was a combined outing for grades five and seven, designed so us new kids could spend time with some of the older boys. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He showed me things I had never seen, cruelties and horrors all committed in the name of the Authority, all designed to destroy the joys and the truthfulness of life. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My medicine chest was not designed for general practice, but I did have a bottle of sleeping pills—seconal, one and a half grains. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The coach barked the number of the next play, a play designed to suck in Carter, the big beefy varsity guard who looked as if he could chew freshmen up and spit them out. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "The material in the jacket's designed to reflect body heat. Expect some cool nights," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But as it turned out, I was able to ask an expert, the person who had actually designed that very ramp and the killing machinery behind the blue door. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Lovelace also designed the tests that the Mercury 7 astronauts had gone through at his Albuquerque clinic. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Thompson, Samel, and Swanson, however, are contumacious Alaskans with a special fondness for driving motor vehicles where motor vehicles aren’t really designed to be driven. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I can think of several creatures that seem designed for this function, if you will accept a microbestiary, and if you are looking for metaphors. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The ceremony was held in the house Root had designed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was also a persuasive spokesman for African rights, becoming the founding president of the All-African Convention in 1936, which opposed legislation in Parliament designed to end the common voters’ roll in the Cape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If it is centrally organized, the system must be designed primarily for the elicitation of disbelief and the celebration of surprise. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Dundee is a shoe designed for touring the landed estates, for tromping through mud while wearing a tie, with your spaniels trailing behind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Mack departed and returned almost immediately with a universal No which was designed by Lee Chong to cover all future requests. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Even inventions that meet the need for which they were initially designed may later prove more valuable at meeting unforeseen needs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Flowever, the true atrocities, the most frightening, incorporate a perverse psychological twist designed to terrify the victim. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z In the distance, I could see the manicured lawns of Pickett’s golf course, and beyond that the glass-and-steel Pickett mansion, which had been designed by some famous architect. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The guard unlocks the door and enters carrying a curiously designed knife with a tag hanging from it. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I believe a famous architect had designed it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Imagine spending 180 days a year in a place that’s designed to take everything you’re not good at and make it important. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I also designed a set of wedding rings, where each one takes the pulse of the person wearing it and sends a signal to the other ring to flash red with each heartbeat. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “And although she’s trying hard to do something about her situation, running again will not be an option if she doesn’t get a prosthesis designed specifically for running.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Supposedly, the students had worked with the architects who designed it. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Guides to English grammar were written as pedagogical steppingstones to mastery of Latin grammar, and they tried to shoehorn English constructions into the categories designed for Latin. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z His mother, a hippie by orientation, worked as a legal secretary; his stepfather was a physicist and engineer who designed machines that made silicon wafers, which computer microprocessors are built on. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He spent the whole night making incomprehensible movements in the drawing room; later they turned out to be exercises designed to perfect the mind’s control over the body and to improve digestion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It is, in fact, a downbeat speech, almost an informal State of the Union address, designed to undercut the revelry and prepare the country for years of more pain and struggle. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Hull had designed it himself, with special features for his family. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It will be the working base for an action program designed to eliminate the political oppression, the economic exploitation, and the social degradation suffered daily by twenty-two million Afro-Americans.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a Joy Ice Cream cart and a man selling peanuts in narrow cones of paper cleverly designed to hold not more than eight or nine nuts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Six people in an ascent vehicle originally designed for a twenty-three-minute flight. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I also designed some party invitations with the address that we can print out and give away in person,” she said quickly, hoping to move the conversation in a new direction. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Then came a human-interest story about a New York City program designed to expose the homeless to great works of art. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z A US government artist’s rendering from September 1984 of the Strategic Defense Initiative, which envisioned a network of space-based lasers and other weaponry designed to intercept Soviet ICBMs. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “This container is designed to keep the agent cold and under pressure. Be mindful while it remains in the workshop. Avoid excessive heat in its immediate vicinity.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was designed in the Western style, a long strand, each bead the same size and of an identical pinkish tone, with a heavy brooch of ornate silver to clasp the ends together. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the NACAs great contributions to aerodynamics was a series of laminar flow airfoils, wing shapes designed to maximize the flow of smooth air around the wing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z "The rover's designed to handle a roll," Bruce explained. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Byrne program was designed to encourage every federal grant recipient to help fight the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I once owned a book designed to provoke the imagination and help bored children discover constructive ways to pass the time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The app is designed mainly for adults, not teens. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It is a technology designed to make up for disease, or to postpone death. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process; a new factor enters and takes over. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The sails themselves were not canvas at all, but solar sheets, designed to feed electricity into the system and add to the power available already from roof skin solar cells. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Sacks containing chemicals designed to rid the lawn of such despised vegetation have become almost a status symbol. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z First, as John S. Lewis notes, our missiles are not designed for space work. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The hotel itself is at least twenty stories tall, sleekly designed, with a virtual image of floating koi swimming across its entire side. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Marti watched as a CIA technician, toiling away in the cramped embassy office, carefully assembled a dead-drop package designed to look like a beat-up pack of cigarettes. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He whirled his plastic glass in his hand and regarded the rinse of whisky left in it, a gesture often designed to draw emptiness to the attention of a host. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Or Baby Kochamma’s conversation that was designed to exclude Ammu and her children, to inform them of their place in the scheme of things. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The house—for the most part designed by Mr. Clutter, who thereby proved himself a sensible and sedate, if not notably decorative, architect—had been built in 1948 for forty thousand dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Structurally the car was sound, but its walls, windows, and doors had been designed merely to discourage attempts at self-destruction, not to resist a human pile driver. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Off the big chamber and one step down was a smaller room designed as a dressing room. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the kind of tense, held-breath expression designed to conceal some strong emotion, like anger, or revulsion, or even fear. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The present building was designed in the late nineteenth century by the same Philadelphia architect whom Washington Duke had hired to build the Main Building at Trinity College. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Our mission was designed knowing that anything might need maintenance, so I have plenty of tools. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “A builder. Like the men who designed the Twin Towers.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Judging from the layout, the second floor space had probably been designed as an in-law apartment meant for one or two people, but four of us found a way to fit inside. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When I ride the bus, 1 simply roll down our ramp, down the driveway, onto the bus lift, and into a specially designed area of the bus that straps my chair into place. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Only one person could have designed the outfit, at first glance utterly utilitarian, at second a work of art. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The students were asked to read over and over a single phonetic paragraph designed to teach them how to soften their t’s and to roll their r s. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z However Oriental the wrapper had originally been designed to look, it didn’t detract an iota from the single, impactful impression that Mrs. Glass, chez elle, made on a certain type of observer. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The law was designed to prevent information that could harm the United States from reaching an enemy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Before Owen, museums were designed primarily for the use and edification of the elite, and even then it was difficult to gain access. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It works, and for what it is designed to accomplish it is as infallible as anything in nature. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Other parts we have to crawl at an excruciatingly slow pace, because of rocks bulldozed into five-foot berms, intentionally formed into a maze designed to direct the flow of water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z On the other side of me, a figure swaddled in a blanket slept soundly in a chair that looked like it had been designed by a torture expert. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Washington designed his intelligence system so that he could run his own agents, as he had run Honeyman. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It is designed like a giant bicycle wheel in the sky, supported by a massive A-frame. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z In his mind, my entire life is this gigantic chess match, where every tiny move I make in the seventh grade has to be perfectly designed to bring about some glorious endgame decades later. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z In a universe so cruel and unfair, so designed to torment him, he’d been given a mother who cared for him, deeply and completely. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z When Newton performed his experiment in 1666 it was probably deliberately designed to produce the elongated spectrum, an effect he describes as if were a complete surprise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When we reach the foot of the bridge, Phil pauses, sweeping his hand over the vista as he talks about the vision of Taro Otsuka, Fabyan’s private gardener who designed this place. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The cross-staff is merely one of a series of instruments, such as the quadrant and the sextant, designed for measuring angles by taking sightings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Clearly, the RECOs were not designed to be shut down so easily. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Their broad, short wings were designed to speed them in and around trees and branches. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The Soviets had taken no risks: The trench was designed to keep the CIA away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The clothes were worn on Christmas and New Year’s when families paraded their children on the streets in a pageantry designed to imply nonexistent wealth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Words for him were like weapons designed to pierce the pages or explode above them in illuminating airbursts. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Clearly, the rules of the drug war game are designed to allow for the roundup of an unprecedented number of Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But best of all, I think, is the simple advice given by the style book of a national newspaper: that punctuation is “a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z The last play was designed specifically for English, and Coach called it “Fist.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “A climbing rope is designed to sort of attach you together, and you never let go of it,” he said. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Long ago, the clever person who designed the Fishery placed about two dozen drains in the workshop to help with cleaning and managing spills. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was ready with a freshly designed vacuum chamber, eleven inches in diameter, when the new magnet arrived on July 3. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This experiment is known as ‘Pascal’s barrel’, although there is no evidence he conducted it himself; he did conduct experiments designed to illustrate the principle involved, but that had already been described by Mersenne. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The zombie line thickened in the center, forming a wedge designed to break through the enemy host. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The M-Plan was designed to allow the organization to recruit new members, respond to local and national problems, and maintain regular contact between the membership and the underground leadership. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These discriminatory barriers were designed to encourage lower-class whites to retain a sense of superiority over blacks, making it far less likely that they would sustain interracial political alliances aimed at toppling the white elite. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Orion was designed to utilize explosions of hydrogen bombs, nuclear weapons, against an inertial plate, each explosion providing a kind of “putt-putt,” a vast nuclear motorboat in space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Saying mass incarceration is an abysmal failure makes sense, though, only if one assumes that the criminal justice system is designed to prevent and control crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His motivation for this work came from his interest in astronomy, where the need for accurate timekeeping had long been obvious, but was becoming more pressing as more accurate observing instruments were designed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z |
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