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The trick of emptying, in fact the only way it was possible for her, was to close her eyes, hold her breath and avert her head. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
He began to glow, and I knew enough about the gods to avert my eyes before he revealed his true divine form. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z
She carried herself with such confidence the other demigods backed away and averted their gaze. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
He ran a hand through his hair, averting his gaze. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
Inmates were constantly being shuffled in the hope this would avert volatile situations. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
She slurped her drink, her eyes averted from me. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
Slowly, we drifted out, eyes averted, like strangers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
We averted our eyes, pretending not to notice. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
She averted her eyes and hurried past, feeling as though she were still trapped in a nightmare. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
I kept my eyes averted, looking at the walls, ceiling, everywhere but at her. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
“Happy Birthday, boy,” Bull said, averting his eyes from Ben’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Hello, Erin,” Stephanie said, looking at her momentarily before averting her eyes and blushing a little. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z
He saw the others in his group glance at him, embarrassed, and then avert their eyes quickly. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
She hides her knowledge well....The silence went on, everybody afraid to speak, thoughts crisscrossing in the overfull air, eyes averted, shifting, lowered at last to the ground. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
Abigail described the decision to resume negotiations with France as “a master stroke of policy” because it averted a French war and removed the rationale for Hamilton’s army at one fell swoop. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The two boys averted their eyes and gazed into a far corner of the room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
The woman asked the traveler for help, and the man averted his eyes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Political pressure from President Franklin D. Roosevelt averted all-out warfare in the streets. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z
Lenina nodded her averted head, let out the breath she had been holding and managed to draw' another one, relatively untainted. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
He has kept his eyes averted since I sat in the chair and they cut the strip of plastic binding my wrists together. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
Leaning away from the field of Cecilia’s body warmth, and averting his eyes from Briony’s, he found himself pitching the end of his question into the frightened gaze of Pierrot diagonally to his left. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
Maybe a showdown could be averted, after all. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
She took her seat next to James, averting her eyes from him, too. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
For my own part, I thought that if Mrs. Harker realised the danger herself, it was much pain as well as much danger averted. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
“I assure you,” said the grieving widow, “I ensured he was insured to the hilt. ” avert/avoid. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
From some things, it's easier to avert your eyes. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
Now he averted his eyes, and nodded shamefacedly. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z
They avert their eyes when Maxine accidentally leans over to run her hand through his hair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
The gatherers shuffle their feet, cough into their hands, avert their eyes, and walk off in the opposite direction. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Tally averted her eyes from Shay’s beauty, trying to focus her thoughts. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
Coiling the rope into her pack, she averted her eyes from his bare skin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
She was no maid; if she could look on the grey wall's scenes of slaughter, why should she avert her eyes from the sight of men and women giving pleasure to one another? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
She averted her eyes and behaved respectfully around the monkeys, because she did not want a monkey to get a notion in its head to spit at her. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
I averted my head and continued my labor, and directly he walked away without speaking. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Pantalaimon watched with powerful curiosity until Mrs. Coulter looked at him, and he knew what she meant and turned away, averting his eyes modestly from these feminine mysteries as the golden monkey was doing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
As she heard me approach, she turned her head away, averting her eyes and keeping me out of her field of vision. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
Max averted his face and opened the door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
Isa did a final mop to get rid of the stickiness, careful to keep her eyes averted from the peephole. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
And now he unknit his black brows; looked down, smiling at me, and stroked my hair, as if well pleased at seeing a danger averted. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
Mr. Smith- ers avoided the open manhole, averting a nasty fall. bad/badly. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
As we entered the room, many of the guys averted their eyes, like it was impolite to look or something. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
He recognized the prince and averted his eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
“I think we barely averted a disaster,” he said. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Where are you taking me?” he asked in a voice soft with timidity and guilt, his gaze still averted. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
Harry jumped down from his own bed, keeping his eyes averted from Ron’s. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
It was not until the plane was less than ten feet from the ocean that, miraculously, Alcock was able to pull the aircraft out of the stall and avert certain death. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
Mrs. Corcoran, leaving Hampden, walked through the crush of her old pals the reporters with her eyes averted and her teeth clenched in a brilliant hateful smile. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
More in embarrassment than terror she averted her glance. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
Headmaster threw a scowl at Neel, who averted his eyes and went back to gathering papers. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z
They do not avert their eyes nor do they glance from one side to another. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
He kept his eyes averted until he had composed himself, which he did with a few deep breaths and a quick swipe at his tearful eyes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
The news reported that Polish government officials had gone to Germany to meet with that country's leadership to try to avert war. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z
The three moneylenders nodded, bowing their heads, their eyes averted. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
“But not the way I wanted it to,” he says, averting his glance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
If we were lucky, the damage to the myoglobin molecules which prevented crystallization would be averted by immediately freezing the exracehorse’s heart. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z
The two boys kept their faces averted while their mother and sister put on enough clothes to keep them from feeling ashamed; and the mother and sister did the same while the boys dressed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
Still averted from her, the young man made a sign of affirmation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
Like nearly every guard in the camp, he was a nameless, bullish-looking man in his early thirties who demanded that students avert their eyes and bow their heads when they spoke to him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
I avert my gaze from a girl paying at the counter who looks vaguely familiar. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
He picks his cloak up from the floor and holds it out to me, averting his eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
On the float they shared, the two crews passed each other silently, with eyes averted, only taking the occasional sidelong glance, like dogs circling before a fight. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Noah averted his gaze when I stared at him. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z
I avert my gaze and still my body. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
It's an intrusion to watch her, but I can’t avert my eyes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
It was about the threat of the earth colliding with another planet and how all the scientists in the world united to avert the catastrophe. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
“Only you’ll have to do even better if the uprisings are to be averted,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
“I only lie when it’s necessary,” Milo explained defensively, averting his eyes for a moment and blinking his lashes winningly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
Dirk Jansen was already passing his own body, averting his eyes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
It was her fate always to know the disaster that was coming and be unable to avert it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
Darlene had her head averted, her eyes staring out of the lamplight into the surrounding darkness and looking almost unconcerned, as though they had no part in the drama taking place around them. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
She averted her eyes and covered herself with her hands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
She found his expression decidedly unpleasant and made a point of averting her smoke-stung eyes from that harsh, heavy- lidded gaze. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
Mrs. Koster averts her eyes, staring down at the new wedding band on her finger, and I have a new, ugly suspicion. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
Any excuse to avert my eyes from the other passengers. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z
Hazel averted her eyes, as if Leo made her nervous. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
Later that day, Emily averted her eyes from Mr. Quisling when she walked into social studies. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
And during that time, Gerry, always the maverick, had opted to remain in Paris to confer unofficially with French diplomats about averting the looming war. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
He was leaning away from me, sitting on the extreme edge of his chair and averting his face like he smelled something bad. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
Harry stressed the smokiness of the tent in an effort to avert the deadly dosing, and this apparently did the trick. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
And could the United States glean enough intelligence from its $20 million device to head off its Soviet adversary and avert a nuclear war? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
People poured out of the building; many stared for a moment at the black man cowering in the street and then averted their gaze. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
He looks toward me and I avert my eyes, attempting to look remorseful. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
In die rare times he diapered me or gave me a bath, Milton studiously averted his eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
One crisis averted, another incoming, because Dad’s wild want to be happy smile was back. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
He digs in, and she has to avert her eyes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
“Ford help him!” said Bernard, and averted his eyes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
They covered the cesspool with dirt and removed old pinup calendars from the walls, averting their eyes as they threw the offending material in the trash. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
"Uh, okay, it's all right," said Somkit, averting his eyes as he wound the towel around Pong's head like a turban. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
She averted her eyes quickly, afraid to ask, afraid to look too long, afraid he might be someone she knew. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
Fishermen shouted the news from boat to boat, from isle to isle it went: Evil is averted, the dragons will never come from Pendor! A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z
Instead of letting them start separate new lives like the Japanese, who could become samurais and geishas, the Chinese family, faces averted but eyes glowering sideways, hung on to the offenders and fed them leftovers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
They lowered their eyes to avert Tenorio’s gaze and scurried for the door. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
I averted my gaze just as Sherrie looked over at me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You see,” he said, mumbling and with averted eyes, “I’m rather different from most people, I suppose. If one happens to be decanted different. . .” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
But I couldn’t close my ears to their insults, couldn’t avert my eyes quickly enough to miss their hate-filled looks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
She glanced over, and he averted his eyes, so he was looking out at the sunset too. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
Bernard looked, and then quickly, with a little shudder, averted his eyes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
“How’s that for temperature, Mr. Jankowski?” she asks, waving her hand in and out of the stream and keeping her gaze discreetly averted. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
He averted his eyes and leaned down to scratch an imaginary bug bite on his leg. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
“On the morrow. In a moon’s turn. In a year. And it may be that if you act, you may avert what I have seen entirely.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
He relaxed and smiled, the way one would after averting a terrible danger. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
I averted my eyes, and saw that the other kids were doing the same. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z
The thing he saw in the averted glance of the servants at his boarding school; the bootblack who tap-danced for a penny. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
He felt for the door, keeping his face averted. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
My father looks momentarily stricken and then recovers himself, averting his glistening eyes and nodding. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
I averted my head to the window and watched the country fly past as we traveled through an area of sun-light. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
But he averted his eyes until it was over. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z
But she averted her face and answered meekly, “It is only the old pain in my vitals.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
He looked around the hall, saw heads turn quickly, eyes politely averted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
The clerks averted their eyes as Mom fished the sock out of her bra, explaining to everyone within earshot that this was her way of making sure she was never pickpocketed. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
As with the spy Penkovsky before him, the information Gordievsky passed to his handlers, experts believe, may well have defused a global crisis and averted nuclear war. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
I averted my eyes so I wouldn’t be rude in my staring. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Therefore, from the point of view of the new groups who were on the point of seizing power, human equality was no longer an ideal to be striven after, but a danger to be averted. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
Lev and the others showed me the same reserved respect they held while tending to the dead, averting their eyes whenever possible, their faces solemn even as fear and confusion darkened their gazes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
Cora averted her eyes and made her face into slate for him, as she had ever since his proposal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
I narrowly averted the missile, and when I reached to examine it, I found a golf ball wrapped in paper. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
He read it, then returned it to her, averting his eyes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z
Hailey does that BS move where you look at someone out the corner of your eye, but you don’t want them to know that you care enough to look, so you avert your eyes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
I flattened myself against the dark red wall and averted my eyes as the techs from the medical examiner’s office took my parents away in body bags. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z
There had been bits of conversation overheard, topics abruptly dropped, glances hastily averted, phone calls carried out with muffled voices. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
As the offspring of traitors, his one chance at redemption—and his only way of averting starvation—was hard work. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
As soon as I spotted them, I kept my eyes averted and spent the rest of the time moving one foot back and forth and staring at a crack in the tile floor. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z
You can see faint stars and other objects by averting your vision slightly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
But everyone else remained silent, their eyes averted and unsure. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
A few minutes passed in deep silence, during which I averted my eyes from her gaze. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Inej kept her eyes averted, shuffling a stack of papers into a pile on the desk as Kaz stripped out of his vest and shirt. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
He avoided her probing eyes and averted his face. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
I averted my eyes, even as I felt the room contract around me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
She averted her eyes from the Nurturing Center. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
The Compromise of 1790 is most famous for averting a political crisis that many statesmen of the time considered a threat to the survival of the infant republic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The footman approached the litter and spoke with his eyes averted to the ground. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z
Her stomach clenching, Celaena averted her eyes from the prisoners, keeping up with the captain as they headed to a caravan of horses near the towering wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
Ron was still slightly inclined to laugh at Hermione’s boggart, but an argument was averted by the sight that met them on the top of the steps. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z
He fished three cents out of his pocket; he went over to the boy with averted face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
Now, merely to avert any ill-luck, I babble mechanically: “I will fulfil everything, fulfil everything I have promised you—” but already I know that I shall not do so. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
Late in the afternoon there was talk of tonics and purgatives and cod-liver oil, but at that point I managed to rally and take some plain boiled chicken, averting such drastic management. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
The secretary, Mrs. Kay, even the assistant headmaster, Mr. Waters, with his tartan tie, avert their eyes. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
Others scatter, averting their faces or hiding behind their sleeves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
She smiles politely, pats me on the shoulder, and then, averting her eyes from mine, squeezes past me to sit down. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
If human equality is to be forever averted—if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently—then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
The Helper took a step backward and averted his eyes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
I was aware of the eyes upon me, the eyes of those for whom I wept turned impassively upon me; I averted my own eyes and wiped away the late evidence of my weakness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
Later that day, Emily averted her eyes from Mr. Quisling when she walked into social studies. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
Like me, they listen at doors, no doubt, and see things even with their eyes averted. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
“There isn’t anything new,” the chaplain replied with averted eyes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
“I’m a woman of the desert,” she said, averting her face. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Will kept his eyes averted while they did up a bandage, and drank the plum brandy sip by sip. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Sticky averted his eyes and didn’t look that direction again. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
He averted his gaze down to Felix’s flashy high-top sneakers and looked away. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z
You know—where you have to solve a problem to avert a disaster using only what’s on hand, like the three astronauts did during the doomed Apollo 13 mission. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z
I averted my gaze, embarrassed by what she must be thinking. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
We move, balancing it as though it were something infinitely precious, our faces averted, breathing through our teeth to keep our nostrils closed. As I Lay Dying 1930-10-06T00:00:00Z
The rest of us—my aunt, his two young sons, me—stood there, silently, cleaning the plates, averting our eyes. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
They seemed to believe she was no longer worthy of their attention or maybe that it was wrong to look at her now, that there was something perverse about it, and they averted their gaze. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
Bound by strong vows that had never been pronounced, obedient to laws that had long since ceased to run, he sat averted and in silence. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
Lord, avert their eyes from me, I whispered in my soul. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
With eyes for the most part downcast and, if ever they lighted on a fellow creature, at once and furtively averted, Bernard hastened across the roof. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
He averts his eyes, but tightens his grip around my back. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
The Helper who took his order nodded silently, averting her eyes, and set about preparing the tray. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
Frank averted his eyes as if the sight of them together might burn him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
I averted my eyes as the goddess turned into her true divine form and disappeared in a blaze of fight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z
Dany looked away from the coupling, frightened when she realized what was happening, but a second warrior stepped forward, and a third, and soon there was no way to avert her eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
Agnes smiled demurely, pressing the tips of her fingers into Red’s palm and averting her eyes from the Associated Press photographer who was covering the wedding. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Each of the three powers which now divide the world is in fact unconquerable, and could only become conquerable through slow demographic changes which a government with wide powers can easily avert. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
Polly hurried down the stairs and out to the kitchen, desperate to avert a tragedy. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Paqo and this man stood nose to nose, interlocking gazes with an intensity that caused me to avert my eyes. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z
I dressed hastily, surrounded by silence and self-consciously averted gazes, then bounded down with a small, wimpily neutral good-bye. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
She took her seat next to James, averting her eyes from him, too. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
Quickly I averted my gaze, but not before he noticed me. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
The horror of the averted cataclysm had all poured into it, mixing with old hate and helplessness, and as the beast descended from the sky, the fervor rose to a new pitch. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
At the last possible second, Lefty would spring awake, taking the wheel and averting disaster. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
“War will be averted and countless lives saved. Our world will return to the formtr state of tranquility we enjoyed before all this nonsense.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
She averted her eyes as she limped past the wall of the gymnasium where a few mothers had ducked out of the afternoon PTA meeting to smoke. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
I’m about to avert my eyes when I remember my talk with Sandra this morning. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z
He prodded once more his attache case - which I felt inclined to keep my eyes averted from - and said: 'I suppose you've been wondering why I never let go of this case. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
I could go home knowing that I had averted trouble for the second time. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z
If he chose, he could rush to the door, throw it open, hold her in his arms, and weep with her at the tragedy just barely averted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
I went around averting my eyes and trying not to stare. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
Eyes that had been coolly averted from one another before now locked in icy stares. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
It sank in that she was seeing a vision of the murders she had averted, and whatever shame she might have felt at Minya’s tirade earlier, she didn’t feel it anymore. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
That threat was averted, after an unprecedented fund-raising effort by private foundations, donors and the state of Michigan. Retired Art Teacher Leaves $1.7 Million to the Detroit Institute of Arts 1453-09-26T05:00:00Z
He averted meltdown and won re-election by rebooting his administration, moving to the political centre and grinding out legislative gains. He'll be back: why old age can't keep Arnold Schwarzenegger down 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z
Some noninvasive treatments and gentler medications may allow a life with dignity, even if a shorter one, and avert the suffering and purgatory of a living death. Review | The surprising comfort of a new book about death 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z
Most Venice residents put their faith in an independent, internationally backed solution to averting this perfect storm. Venice world heritage status under threat 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z
The new loan will enable his group to avert layoffs and to pay the rent on its Washington offices for its fact-checking offshoot, PolitiFact. Axios returns coronavirus bailout loan as news organizations grapple with the ethics of taking government funds 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z
I had to remove three feet of topsoil throughout to avert an environmental disaster. Digested read: Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx 2011-02-14T21:30:03Z
This had to do with their heads, the way they were hanging, and their eyes, which were watchful but, at the same time, averted. Untamed 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z
By the time he put on a blindfold, my 3-year-old and I both averted our eyes. Review: The Big Apple Circus Still Delivers 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z
And good braking and emergency handling can help any driver avert an accident. The Safest Cars Of 2011 2011-01-17T17:00:00Z
We were young and ambitious and we wanted to address the big issues from which the cinema preferred to avert its eyes – in my own case, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb, the Algerian war. Alain Resnais: vive la diff?rence 2010-06-22T21:00:00Z
Many smart commentators argue that only complete reinvention will avert looming crises. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z
The preachers winked, or at least averted their gaze. Cavorting in Hot Springs, Ark., During Its Sin-Soaked Heyday 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z
Surely their next step would have been to warn the world about the dangers of putting nuclear weapons in the hands of artificial intelligence, thereby averting Judgment Day for ever? Search and destroy: can James Cameron revive the Terminator by killing its past? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z
A documentary following scientist Cary Fowler as he travels the globe collecting seeds to preserve crop diversity and potentially avert an agricultural catastrophe. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z
If we can anticipate violent adult crime by screening children for conditions such as a low resting heart rate, should we then monitor them to avert later catastrophe? The Anatomy of Violence by Adrian Raine – review 2013-05-25T13:00:07Z
Your inner censor insists that you avert your eyes and stop your ears. Tender Napalm ? review 2012-05-18T11:30:57Z
Senators overwhelmingly approved the two-month extension of the tax break in a rare Saturday session and were poised to pass a spending bill to fund the government and avert a shutdown. Senate extends payroll tax cut 2011-12-17T15:38:00Z
There may be ways of fixing that and averting catastrophic global warming that don't make use of religious resources, but I can't think of any. If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z
The pleas avert a trial scheduled to begin on Feb. 8. 'Jersey Shore' star Sorrentino to plead guilty in tax case 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z
Should we gaze at a monkey, it would reveal no inclination to exchange glances; it would furtively avert its eyes, or enlarge them in a hostile stare.… Remembering Koko, a Gorilla We Loved 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z
But once it happened, many of them — particularly in America — acted quickly and intelligently, and as a result another Great Depression was averted. Looking Back at the Economic Crash of 2008 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z
He ducks in and out of clauses when he talks, leaving thoughts and insights unfinished, averting his glance behind a parted curtain of hair. Kurt Vile, Indie Rock’s Charming Riddle 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z
Wanting to avert disaster, I ask about the music of Stephen Sondheim; Gyllenhaal is currently wowing critics in a Broadway production of Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George. Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘I would love to not talk about my personal life’ 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z
In the end, Kennedy concluded that the recommendations of LeMay and other military commanders were too reckless and ill-advised, and he upheld a naval blockade of Cuba, thus averting a potential nuclear crisis. Sunday Reading: On the Precipice 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z
Doing so would help ensure this agreement and others to come, meet the urgent need to avert dangerous global warming. A new trade deal ostensibly delivers cheaper foods — but does little to avert climate change 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z
Is disaster more easily imaginable than the painful steps that might avert it? Life in Miami on the Knife’s Edge of Climate Change 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z
A year in which the critic-consensus R&B star was Frank Ocean, who spent most of the year spilling out feelings and then averting his eyes. The Year in Pop: Viral Stardom and Martial Dance Music 2012-12-28T17:07:10Z
People avert their eyes when we strike up the band, Rick. Game over, conservative friend 2012-11-17T00:30:00Z
There’s a long pause as he averts his eyes, sitting in the deep freeze of an air-conditioned tour bus on a humid summer afternoon in Virginia. Country star Kip Moore weathers the Nashville storm to make a comeback 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z
Romney averted the face-to-face clash by showing up almost an hour early. Romney makes final plea in South Carolina 2012-01-21T18:31:00Z
We averted our eyes, gazing instead on the dozens of young plants shaking in the cart along the gravel path from nursery barn to parking lot. Pandemic could not have come at a worse time for independent garden centers 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z
Moments after landing, a plane full of passengers in Egypt erupted in flames, but a speedy emergency response and an ample amount of luck averted tragedy. Plane erupts in flames with 196 people aboard, yet no one's hurt 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z
Yet the potential for character overload here was averted because the filmmakers knew to focus on the stories of the central pair rather than have each subplot compete for equal attention. You should see "Into the Spider-verse" 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z
That crisis was averted, though just barely, when the “Harriet” star Cynthia Erivo landed an Academy Award nomination for best actress. Oscar Snubs and Surprises: Jennifer Lopez, ‘Frozen II,’ Female Directors 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z
I averted my eyes and rejoined the flow of shoppers strolling through the market. Thief 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z
At the same time, the movie cautiously averts and deflects any notion of a politically polarized country—as if in fear of cutting off half of its potential audience. “Long Shot,” Reviewed: A Timid Political Rom-Com with the Politics Removed 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z
Comprehensively researched and briskly told, “The Divider” is a story of disasters averted as well as disasters realized. A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z
Only once does a child seem irked by the camera’s presence or possibly the man behind it; whatever the case, it jerkily shifts view, a move suggestive of a hurriedly averted gaze. Movie Review: ‘Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man,’ by Jonas Mekas 2013-04-24T22:04:27Z
Having averted disaster, the three answer a call from Victorian London where a T.rex is pacing the Thames, as so many things do in "Doctor Who." Deep breath, 'Doctor Who' fans, Peter Capaldi up for adventure 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z
He’s already averted one confrontation in the Middle East and tried to calm a fearful nation with his first news conference. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 2: Day One 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z
“The mayors winked. The cops winked. The preachers winked, or at least averted their gaze.” New in Paperback: ‘A Knock at Midnight,’ ‘The Vapors’ and More 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z
Both send agents around the globe, fighting for ownership of information while seemingly working towards the same goal: averting an attack on US soil. 'They totally underestimated al-Qaida': The Looming Tower and America's pre-9/11 complacency 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z
He looked as if he wanted to say more, but instead he sat back and averted his gaze. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z
This disaster could have been averted if it had been introduced by a historian from the outset in order to manage expectations. The Last Czars: the historical drama that the whole of Russia is laughing at 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z
Those who wish to encounter it unencumbered by any prior knowledge should employ a primitive method of interactivity and avert their eyes from the next two paragraphs. ‘Black Mirror’ Gives Power to the People 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z
An apocalyptic threat is averted and the status quo is restored. The Trump era is posing some major challenges for thriller novelists 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z
Crisis averted, we went to some vox pops about Louis. Grace Dent's TV OD: OK! TV 2011-02-19T00:05:26Z
I wrote a long missive to two of my best friends and confessed how many times I’ve narrowly averted disaster. My terrifying chemical storms 2014-01-12T21:00:00Z
In a surprising reversal, Teamsters members agreed Sunday morning to the "last, best and final" offer from studios, averting a strike by Hollywood transportation workers and others. Hollywood drivers ratify labor deal, avert strike 2010-07-26T05:53:00Z
A stand-in, averting her head or hiding behind binoculars, replaced the star in the final scenes, as Gable spoke merrily to the shade of a dead woman. Merry Pranksters: Harlow, Daffy and Ken Kesey's Magic Trippers 2011-11-01T18:32:04Z
Because R.F.K. has ended the Vietnam War early, Pol Pot never comes to power in Cambodia, and the Khmer Rouge massacres are averted. Books of The Times: With a Few Tweaks, Shaking Up History 2011-02-28T23:16:12Z
There are poetic elements that avert an exacting realism, such as the original music composed by David Coulter, who plays the saw on stage. For 'A Thousand Splendid Suns,' a well-timed journey from the page to the stage 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z
Maybe we are alone together and that is a tender choice, to avert our gaze, to allow each other some privacy in the midst of such terrible intimacy. Intimacy in Isolation 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z
A teen-ager’s ultimate nightmare—What if I didn’t exist?—has been averted. Happy “Back to the Future” Day 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z
Keep looking attentively at the performers, which is what the courtesy of theater demands, or avert your eyes, which is what the courtesy of society demands? | 'Hello Again': Web of Love, Explicitly Woven in Shades of Anguish 2011-03-21T02:01:03Z
But, hey, at the end of the day, she averted war. What would a Trump presidency look like? Just ask Veep's Selina Meyer 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z
He also averted a crisis when Japanese internees couldn’t produce enough tofu, a staple in their diet. ‘The Train to Crystal City’: a WWII detainees camp in Texas 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z
Huge suffering could be averted if patients, doctors and everyone else stopped viewing them as diseases that are not “real”. Straight and crooked thinking 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z
My kitchen towels have stains on them from sopping up sauces and averting curry catastrophes. Just give up on your sheet pans 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z
Instead, everything about the lady — the way she averts her gaze, the way her hands clutch the fabric of her long black dress — speaks of shyness, even discomfort, at being the painter's subject. The Greathouse touch: Several exhibits at the Frye reveal the canny curatorial eye of former director Ida Kay Greathouse 2010-07-29T20:34:00Z
Our Snow White’s mother averted tragedy with consoling words, and the pre-school princess skipped off to another Fantastic adventure. Disney's Fantastic Voyage 2012-06-01T18:10:44Z
I averted my gaze and followed Villareal up two metal ladders. T Magazine: Bright Idea 2012-11-29T22:30:55Z
The settlement averts a possible strike or other job action. Off Broadway Equity Actors and Stage Managers Win Pay Increase 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z
If they ever get the apocalypse averted and settle down in the suburbs, how long do you give their marriage? 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: And the Father Has Eight Legs 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z
Most of the women have the decency to avert their eyes, but a few linger to gawk. 'The Bachelor' Watch: What Happens In Vegas 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z
As the deadline loomed on 1 May, the threat of a Hollywood writers’ strike was averted as a last-minute deal was announced. Hollywood ending sees writers call off strike after last-minute deal 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z
First, he averts a drone strike against Waterloo Station. The 5 Most Ridiculous Moments and Subplots From 24: Live Another Day 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z
Moreover, “Sully” is a story of disaster averted, while “Patriots Day” is one about disaster contained. “Patriots Day,” a Police Procedural for the Age of Surveillance 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z
"The poet must not avert his eyes," he once said. Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams: the real art underground 2011-03-17T23:00:01Z
It was a belief he had put into spectacular public practice in 1989, when Communism in East Germany began to crumble and he used his singular renown there to avert mass bloodshed. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z
Afterward, Flaubert toured the city ruins with his friend Maxime du Camp, to whom he lamented that if only his countrymen had read “Sentimental Education,” the Terrible Year might have been averted. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z
They bump into one another and a fight is narrowly averted. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham’s ‘Pavement,’ at Harlem Stage Gatehouse 2012-11-05T22:53:34Z
The sincerity is so intense, Rowland has to avert her eyes. Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’: Let’s Discuss 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z
In Khyentse Norbu’s “Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache,” a Nepalese entrepreneur searches for spiritual enlightenment, hoping to avert a fatal prophecy. ‘Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache’ Review: Beyond Belief 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z
As a viewer, you sense that disaster was averted only by the narrowest margin. The Classic Vietnam-Era Documentary “The War at Home” and Its Lessons of Nonviolence 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z
And it is like I’ve just averted death, as if a piano falling from the sky just landed an inch to the left of me. “My synagogue was a jail cell”: My miracle happened behind bars 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z
The window for averting climate change is narrow. Culture's role in environmental change 2013-07-15T10:51:46Z
WASHINGTON— A measure to cut spending and raise the U.S. debt ceiling to avert an unprecedented default gained enough votes to pass the Senate on Tuesday, as voting continued. U.S. Senate passes debt plan 2011-08-02T16:39:00Z
If Trump loses on Nov. 8, let’s avert our addicted gaze. If Trump loses, the news media should break the addiction. But can they? 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z
Ghana’s government flew in $3 million in cash - after Brazil’s government waived laws on moving currency - to avert a threatened strike by players who were reportedly promised between $75,000 and $100,000. How World Cup cash is paid to teams, players 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z
“I was making eyes at Michael across the bar, and Michael averted his eyes,” he said. He Showed Up Dressed as Reba McEntire. That Seemed to Work. 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z
Without those apocalyptic images and fears to motivate us, a sense of the urgent action needed to avert such a slowly emerging global catastrophe lessens. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z
Ms. Akhavan, who from certain angles resembles Hilary Swank, has a face so expressive that you can hardly avert your eyes once she appears; every few seconds, a little storm passes across her features. Desiree Akhavan’s ‘Appropriate Behavior’ 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z
He sewed me up with thirteen stitches while I averted my eyes. Severed 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z
There was an early wobble when the film crew said they wouldn't start their days without bacon butties; a pig was chosen, crisis averted. The village that made its own movie 2012-05-20T19:00:02Z
If with this play the oil crisis is merely averted and our standard of living maintains itself at its current level, I will weep into my oatmeal. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z
In the early 1970s, Hollywood released around 200 movies centered on Black characters, which, in their success, helped avert a financial crisis for the industry. Why Did Los Angeles Become a Cultural Mecca in the Early 1970s? 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z
“She dutifully describes the Cinderella episodes the girls and parents of Troop 6000 enjoy, but she refuses to avert her eyes from their precarious lives,” Samuel G. Freedman writes in his review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z
The Times of London reported “it is not known whether her majesty was forced to avert her eyes.” Meet the guy who envisions a ‘meat brewery’ to help solve a global problem 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z
This song suggests the reason for his absence: dark, self-destructive impulses that he has averted. FKA twigs Seeks Angelic Intervention, and 10 More New Songs 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z
This measure and several others like it are part of a package that would raise the debt limit to avert a potential U.S. default and a global economic crisis. Proposed SNAP work requirements target many low-income people who already work 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z
Also, anyone who lives in a city is used to the sight of spectacular drunks and morbidly obese people whose addictions are so grotesquely out of control that we avert our eyes. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z
I couldn’t see him, yet my impulse was to avert my eyes, or rather, my ears. Why Is Being Held Accountable So Terrifying Under Patriarchy? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z
Only if you were so repelled by obesity that you were already averting your eyes could this picture work. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver – review 2013-05-25T08:01:30Z
In the hospital room my husband is standing, hands on hips, staring intently at the beeping machine, as if it might stop if he averts his glare. Sins of the mother: I blame myself for my son's overdose 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z
But they stressed it was needed to avert a U.S. default debacle. House approves debt deal; Senate on clock 2011-08-02T00:26:00Z
What can I do, short of averting my eyes? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Distinguishing the mentally ill friend from the mental illness 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z
Miller’s project helps to create a sense of community — and he hopes that will help avert the offensive cultural blunders that have stained the industry. Fashion needs more powerful black voices — so Ethan Miller created a new way to help 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z
Stay away from my daughter, problem solved, danger averted. RECAP: The Americans Watch: Something Greater Than Yourself 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z
But “Me!” — her new single, and presumably the first from her forthcoming seventh album — is, quite relentlessly, the sound of moving forward, eyes averted. The Playlist: Taylor Swift Wants to Start Over, and 7 More New Songs 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z
The crisis was averted when his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, led a group of female resisters who moved to the front lines to block the destruction. 'Budrus': Nonviolence put to the test in West Bank documentary 2010-12-16T21:50:14Z
As long as Europe's economic powerhouse remains strong and committed, catastrophe is averted and people can get on with their lives. On the Runway Blog: At Gucci, Assuredly 'Made in Italy' 2012-06-25T15:52:33Z
This is not the first time, of course, that Hollywood has averted its gaze from an unpleasant topic. Bill Cosby allegations meet with mostly silence in Hollywood 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z
Arts advocates and elected officials in California called on Thursday for additional government spending to avert what one organization leader called a “pending cultural depression” brought on by the pandemic. California Lost 175,000 ‘Creative Economy’ Jobs, Study Finds 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z
Doctors were encouraged to avert their eyes whenever they were examining a female patient, to "respect" her modesty. "Patients would come 9 or 10 times": What we can learn from the first time abortion was banned 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z
Under Texas law, even if a woman averts her eyes, the doctor must give a verbal description of the fetus anyway. It’s not just forced ultrasound: Abortion rights under assault 2012-10-21T12:00:00Z
Mr. Simon told the members of the negotiating committee that while it was uncertain what would come out of the latest development, they should concentrate on trying to avert the lockout. Met Opera Unions Agree to Federal Mediator as Deadline Looms 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z
Q: The film also shows how disasters were averted, including fears that the sound towers would fall during the thunderstorm and the mad dash to get payments to bands. 'Recreating Woodstock': how festival came together, and almost fell... 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z
Close to the end of the book, though, this refrain morphs into a message to those who would avert their eyes from our societal ills. Four Debut Novels Follow Strivers and Survivors 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z
Key to making the process satisfying was my own parents’ willingness to avert their eyes from the kitchen mess. At our house, every Eid calls for chocolate mousse cake 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z
But what she says she says with so much I-am-woman-hear-me-roar abandon, it was all I could do not to avert my gaze out of delicacy for her, if not for myself. The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z
The person Jude really needs to save is himself, and he can’t fix his own guilt by swooping in to avert other people’s disasters. Ann Hood’s New Novel Plumbs Sibling Guilt and Sorrow 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z
As Momo conquers her fears, averts a tragedy and finally sees the beauty of her surroundings, the movie grabs your heart with the softest of hands. ‘A Letter to Momo,’ a Hiroyuki Okiura Animated Film 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z
But, once again, as on the vacation, any disagreement is averted, and the story takes us back to the possibility of profound happiness. Garth Greenwell on Vacations 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z
How many teen pregnancies were averted because one of the potential partners was too busy looking for treasure in a crypt? Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z
Our heroine rises, blood on her blouse, filicide averted. A “final girl” who gets to get off: “The Witch” proves nothing’s scarier than an unapologetically liberated young woman 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z
It was also the one occasion when a riot was only narrowly averted among the normally low-key crowd. TED: Even more elitist than we thought 2012-05-18T12:40:00Z
After the nightmarish imaginings of the destruction that he averted, Sully is seen in the bathroom of a hotel, wiping steam off the mirror and wondering who he is. Clint Eastwood’s “Sully”: A Heroic Pilot’s Existential Burden 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z
A man spies on her from a window, sometimes averting his gaze but always returning. Music Review: Stefan Herheim?s ?Rusalka,? at Th??tre Royal de la Monnaie 2012-03-09T23:41:56Z
As a liberal man brought up by a strong mother, I knew exactly what to do at this point: avert my eyes from her body and concentrate on her verse-speaking, or the lighting rig. Naked appeal: is it OK to find actors attractive? 2012-12-12T17:04:54Z
But filmmakers today tend to avert their eyes from the horrors of financial hardship. Hollywood doesn’t make many movies about poverty. ‘The Florida Project’ bucks the trend. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z
If you don't care what happens to the people involved, why worry about whether they're going to be able to avert disaster? Review: `The Leviathan Effect' disappoints 2013-03-19T15:50:20Z
The first was erecting scaffolding to plant it, a problem now averted with the cherry pickers. At 37 feet tall, Jeff Koons’s flower-draped ‘Split-Rocker’ demands a whole lotta love 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z
All of them put “their careers on the line” as they tried to avert catastrophe, Lewis said. From Michael Lewis, a ‘Superhero Story’ About the Pandemic 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z
Low interest rates and quantitative easing have averted Great Depression 2.0 by flooding economies with cheap money. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z
If only the young Huguenot Raoul had followed the dictates of the would-be peacemaker Marguerite de Valois and married the Catholic girl Valentine in a symbolic rapprochement between factions, tragedy could have been averted. Music: 'Les Hugenots,' Making Operatic History Again 2011-06-21T11:21:41Z
To avert the demolition of a Syrian cultural heritage building in Manhattan, she had campaigned to turn it into an Islamic community center, drawing death threats. Queer Exile: Three Novels About Émigrés, Lovers and Family 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z
He portrays the gangbangers not as hardened criminals but as aimless kids “just circling life” as they avert the police, staving off the inevitable for one more day. Album review: Kendrick Lamar, 'good kid, m.A.A.d city' 2012-10-22T04:19:00Z
She’s also about to touch his scarf, but in response he’s offering very little other than a wan smile and averted eye gaze. Friends reunited: what a cast reunion photo really says 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z
So OK, crisis averted — but the rather modest overall point still stands. Wordle was fun while it lasted 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z
I even squirmed 180 degrees in my seat, only to see the adult next to me averting his eyes too. 'I didn't sleep well for months': the films that terrified our writers as kids 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z
The settlement, disclosed in a filing in federal court in New York on Wednesday, averts a trial that was set to begin July 29. Velvet Underground, Warhol settle after banana split 2013-05-29T20:13:26Z
By presenting one perilous situation in Gage running for the street, and averting that tragedy only to create another, the filmmakers said they were aiming to emphasize the fatefulness of death in the material. ‘Pet Sematary’ Has a Shocking Change. Yes, Stephen King Approved. 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z
She screamed on the street and howled and writhed on the London underground as commuters tried to avert their eyes. ‘We’re never going to bed’: children rewrite the house rules 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z
Shortly after he was approached, however, Eno heard on the radio that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had concluded that we had 12 years left to avert catastrophe. At the Serpentine, a Show of Nature’s Healing Power 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z
Definitely end, that is, there being nothing that could be done – by scientists, governments or maverick heroes – to avert the apocalypse. A Thousand Stars' end of the world show 2010-05-10T21:00:00Z
“There are historians who in their eagerness to discover the slave perspective have averted our attention from the ways in which slavery really was a horrible, unjust institution, but he doesn’t cite them,” she said. Henry Wiencek’s ‘Master of the Mountain’ Irks Historians 2012-11-26T22:31:39Z
We flee, avert our eyes, cataloguing her as the “marginal sexless hag,” or worse, the bag lady on the street. I Love Dick on television marks the rise of the female loser 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z
So why did no one manage to avert the crime? GALA Theatre weaves a swift and taut ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z
Little do the press or public know that he was trying to avert a crisis, not start one. Bill Clinton and James Patterson Team Up to Imagine a True Fantasy: Sane Politics 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z
Proponents said the cuts were necessary to help Louisiana balance its budget and avert steep cuts to education and other needed services. Louisiana scales back film tax credits, roiling the industry 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z
Thanks to major foundation support and public money from the Allegheny Regional Asset District, the closing was averted. A Hometown Exhibition Will Showcase August Wilson’s Process 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z
A hand was about to reach into the bulging back pocket of his pants when his traveling companion warned him what was happening, and he was able to avert being pickpocketed. Noticed: Pants Designed to Outsmart Pickpockets 2012-07-11T18:46:16Z
Some of the brass players she counseled — trombonists and others as well as trumpeters — were, like Mr. Douglas and Mr. McNeil, working professionals seeking to discreetly avert career-ending difficulties. Laurie Frink,Trumpeter and Brass Instructor to Many, Dies at 61 2013-07-18T03:03:39Z
Firebrand: Stewart Brand’s views on how to avert catastrophic global warming are controversial among fellow greens. My bright idea: Stewart Brand 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z
As Mundy writes, “Some of the women broke messages warning about attacks before they happened but were helpless to avert them.” The Women Who Helped America Crack Axis Codes 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z
Sturgis’ Jack and Freeman’s Jill spin about like broken tops while trying to avert their eyes from the despair and depravity around them. 'Blueberry Toast' from Echo Theater Company is a darkly whimsical dish 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z
If you avert your gaze from an ugly new shopping center, you can imagine a scene from a novel about provincial prerevolutionary Russia. Driving Russia’s Revived Golden Ring 2012-08-31T19:01:44Z
GF1 follows a similar theme to Anderson's most successful TV series, about a secret organisation that is "involved in rescues and averting disasters and terrorist events". New books from Thunderbirds creator 2013-09-05T08:35:58Z
None of his family asks him to since, yet again, there's another apocalypse to avert. Netflix's superhero series shows what's to be gained from embracing one's true self, even if others 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z
In hopes of averting such missteps in the seasons to come, I am proposing a little list that matches stars in search of redemption with roles tailor-made to their particular skills and images. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Stage Resuscitation for Career-Challenged Celebrities 2011-05-26T16:16:55Z
Officials wanted to downplay hijackings as much as possible, and the best way to do this was to simply give the hijacker what they wanted to avert the loss of life. D.B. Cooper, the changing nature of hijackings and the foundation for today’s airport security 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z
But sometimes, you do need someone with major credits to fill seats and avert disaster. The Art and Anxiety of Booking a Hit Comedy Showcase 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z
And, since family dinners are microcosms of society and the world, there are heroes who step up to avert disaster, whether involving screaming infants or a missing gravy ingredient. Kate Benson’s New Play at the Jam on Toast Festival 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z
It averted what could have been another cycle of punishing headlines for the monarchy. ‘The Crown’ Could Have Damaged Charles. Becoming King Has Helped. 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z
At times, I wished I could avert my eyes, but looking away felt rude. Review: 5 Short Plays, Up-Close and Unsettled, Purposely 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z
An assassination plot is averted, a traitor is exposed. The Trump era is posing some major challenges for thriller novelists 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z
The problem is us … We urgently need to do – and I mean actually do – something radical to avert a global catastrophe. Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott – review 2013-07-05T07:01:01Z
This is a sturdy science-fiction trope, but in these films there’s no science: no teams of earnest, frazzled-looking men and women working around the clock to avert disaster, no desperate missions. ‘Seeking a Friend for the End of the World’ and Other Apocalyptic Movies 2012-06-15T18:30:00Z
At the sight of me, they averted their eyes and bolted, the bravest among them yelling from the garden gate to ask whether there were any men in the house. Four Lions: Laugh? I roared 2010-05-07T10:20:00Z
It was the eyes that I noticed first; where before he’d made soothing eye contact, now he kept his gaze averted. 'I feel bombarded with to-dos': the hell of life admin – and how to get on top 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z
From one angle she seems to be screening her averted face from view; from another angle she seems to protect her torso with that elbow, crooked like a prow. 3 Exhibitions Where Art Melds With Dance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z
As before, Armageddon is averted by the academic interpreter of symbols Robert Langdon. Inferno by Dan Brown – review 2013-05-19T07:00:02Z
Between numbers she averts her eyes and appears to be thinking. “Amazing Grace” Gives Us Aretha Franklin at the Spellbinding Height of Her Powers 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z
The pleas avert a trial scheduled to begin on Feb. 8. 'Jersey Shore' star Sorrentino to plead guilty in tax case 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z
I slip through the transparent netting, scratching the bites it failed to avert, and step onto our patio. Avoid the megaresorts of Mexico in Tulum, a hipster mecca on the Yucatan Peninsula 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z
"Having said that, the averted gaze of this portrait, which was his choice, struck me as characteristic of his reflective character, and became intensely engaging", she said. Family paintings win portrait award 2013-06-19T07:03:21Z
But the Human Rights Watch Film Festival refuses to avert its gaze from war, injustice and oppression. Human Rights Watch Film Festival, the 25th Edition 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z
Earlier Thursday, DirecTV Corp. said it reached a deal with broadcaster Hearst Corp. over the fees the satellite company pays to carry Hearst's 29 local TV stations, averting a blackout. Time Warner Cable says Big 4 shows to stay on-air 2010-12-31T03:20:17Z
The poets remind us that our lives are at the mercy of near misses, catastrophes averted. A Memoir of Near-Death Experiences 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z
She dutifully describes the Cinderella episodes the girls and parents of Troop 6000 enjoy, but she refuses to avert her eyes from their precarious lives. For Homeless Girl Scouts, It’s Not All Badges and Cookies 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z
Bird murder apparently averted, we continued along the road, talking about his upbringing. Woody Harrelson, Rogue Number One 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z
Worse, there are already signs that even a campaign boost hasn’t been enough to avert further financial deterioration in some parts of the news business. America has been gorging on election news. What happens to media when it’s over? 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z
This year, PBS narrowly averted another major loss in Chicago, where the board of WTTW-TV told management to examine the question of withdrawing as well. Burdened by Dues, Stations Consider Separating From PBS 2011-05-22T21:45:17Z
The agency is dissolved and the group -- without any resources or backup -- must find a way to clear the agency's name, prevent another attack and avert a nuclear war. Tom Cruise on new world-saving mission impossible 2011-12-01T05:58:09Z
Then they make out while everyone awkwardly watches and Chris Harrison tactfully averts his eyes. 'Bachelor in Paradise': Twosomes, Threesomes and a Trip to the Hospital 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z
The submissive bowed his head, she said, averting eye contact. She Gets Paid Just to Humiliate Her Fans 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z
O’Reilly’s contract--signed just last month--contains a clause that enables him to be dismissed under a fixed financial formula, averting protracted negotiations. Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News career comes to a swift end amid growing sexual harassment claims 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z
In one scene the students, shown a close-up film of an actual birth, avert their eyes and make retching noises. Movie Review: ‘17 Girls,’ Directed by Delphine and Muriel Coulin 2012-09-21T00:26:02Z
Instead, as inmates crowded the TV room on those steamy August nights watching track and field events, Jones walked quickly by, averting her eyes. Marion Jones: 'I'm a sucker for a challenge' 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z
Soviet missiles were spotted in Cuba, and it took extraordinary diplomatic gymnastics to avert an apocalyptic conflict between the superpowers. Change in U.S. policy toward Cuba dismantles an artifact of the Cold War 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z
To avoid being wasted, food must avert a gauntlet of possible missteps as it moves from soil to stomach. About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z
With nervous laughter and averted eyes, we did not speak of the years gone by since the last time we'd seen each other. I lost my dad in Nomadland 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z
In a decision that averted a family feud, singer/actors Willow and Jaden Smith shared the Young Star award, while their father Will Smith looked on with tears welling in his eyes. Stars with criminal pasts honored at BET Awards 2011-06-27T04:47:22Z
Stopped at customs, he turns up Handel's Messiah on the stereo to try to avert an epileptic seizure and is taken away by the police. The Universe versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence – review 2013-03-15T17:45:01Z
FDR’s New Deal rejected laissez-faire capitalism and promoted a mixed economy with strong labor unions and safety nets, which helped avert radical movements — particularly from the left. Socialism vs. barbarism: Only social democracy can defeat the right-wing radicalism of Donald Trump 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z
There’s also a characteristic Grand Guignol flourish toward the end that’s outrageous enough that you may find yourself at once laughing and gasping, only to hastily avert your eyes. Review: ‘The Handmaiden’ Explores Confinement in Rich, Erotic Textures 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z
Perhaps, fed up with Arnie and his pals averting Judgment Day on at least half a dozen separate occasions, the merciless machine reich simply went and infiltrated Hollywood instead. Can James Cameron switch Terminator back on? 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z
And for something more recent there’s “Everfair” by Nisi Shawl, in which the people of the Congo acquire steampunk technology early on, therefore averting the colonial horrors of our timeline. Review | Ever wonder what might have been? Here are some scenarios, courtesy of science fiction 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z
Doctors have recently averted a 27% cut in Medicare payments, but that will only last until the end of the year. Concierge Medicine For The Poorest 2012-02-23T15:10:58Z
Before you can say triple wedding — though we are at least spared the traditional parade of bridal gowns — let’s avert our eyes from the book and listen to the score. Review: A Multiple-Exposure ‘Me and My Girl’ at Encores! 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z
And sign up to the Guide’s 10 spoiler commandments in the hope that we can all work together to avert spoilergeddon. Are you a Game of Thrones blabbermouth? The 10 rules of spoiler etiquette 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z
Rebecca is the one who finally settles her gaze onto Edie — indeed, she had been watching long before they ever met — despite her efforts to avert her eyes. In ‘Luster,’ Young Black Women Feel Uneasy in a White American Home 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z
The distant threat of a players’ strike was averted on Monday when they agreed to a one-year contract. Review: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Leads the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z
It was approved by the insurer, and an unnecessary threat was averted. Loved one sick with covid-19? A patient advocate can help. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z
Surely, though, Dead Sis was smiling when Mary swept Anna off to London to avert another miscarriage and even paid extra for Dr. Ryder’s dawn patrol. ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 4: The Engine Purrs 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z
Obama got a montage alternating truly low moments with moments in which his win was only conditional—sure, the financial crisis was averted, but it’s not a moment one particularly relishes reliving. Convention's Obama Video Seeks to Define 'Presidential' 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z
I concluded that the press would not be able to avert disaster by itself: “We’re going to need some heroes.” Perspective | Four years ago, I wondered if the media could handle Trump. Now we know. 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z
Doiron captures the stark beauty of his setting without averting his eyes from the sick and starving wildlife, the rancorous feuds among the lobstermen or the homicidal impulses that push islanders off the deep end. Hate Thy Neighbor. Or Maybe Just Kill Him. 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z
I hope it’s not a spoiler alert to report 30 years later that the threat was averted. Review | What Nat Geo’s ‘Hot Zone’ lacks in action, it makes up for in contagious paranoia 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z
Can a system designed to be deliberative and cumbersome muster the vigor necessary to avert catastrophe? Review | Did America’s great landscape painter fear progress and hate democracy? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z
But Juanes describes himself as energized and inspired by his encounter with his two idols, a personal crisis averted. The Colombian Rock Star Juanes on MTV 2012-05-27T00:43:09Z
Alas, the awkwardness averted there crops up just about everywhere else. Illstyle and Peace’s ‘IMpossible IZZpossible’ at BAM Fisher 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z
The very form of the language suggested evasion, or superstitious ritual intended to avert misfortune. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus – review 2013-04-30T11:41:04Z
I'm told that some of those present actually took notes; others had to avert their gaze for fear of eruptions. The secret actor on the proper way to recite Shakespeare 2013-06-23T19:43:01Z
Written and directed by Sean Hartley, this musical from the Poppy Seed Players of the Kaufman Music Center shows how Queen Esther saved the day and averted the wrath of her husband’s evil minister, Haman. Spare Times for Children for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:35:14Z
Again and again he turns up a surprising and revelatory detail — the averted eyes that suggest Leonardo used mirrors to create a marvelous late self-portrait, human vertebrae drawn with precision and delicacy. A New Biography of the Renaissance Genius 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z
Only you and your boyfriend can decide the parameters of your partnership, but you’re right that ignoring such transgressions won’t avert problems later – it will only exacerbate them. My boyfriend cheated on me using Skype sex. Does it matter? 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z
I am convinced that some of our tragedies, in a statistical way, would be averted if public policy favored more public mental health services. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z
But he faces a growing opposition protest movement and wants to secure outright victory on Sunday, averting a runoff that might dent his authority. Assassination bid on Putin foiled, Ukraine says 2012-02-27T10:40:09Z
The furloughing of the musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra has been averted with a restructured contract that will result in $4 million in savings, the Kennedy Center announced Tuesday. Kennedy Center and NSO musicians reach agreement to avert furloughs 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z
There are moments between the client and his surrogate that are so intensely personal that your first instinct may be to avert your eyes. Movie Review: ‘The Sessions,’ With John Hawkes and Helen Hunt 2012-10-18T22:04:26Z
Two and a half years ago, Kirchuk decided to stop averting his gaze. Life Along a Poisoned River 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z
Some Republican senators tried to avert their gaze. Perspective | The Jan. 6 images were already disturbing. The impeachment-trial video makes them terrifying. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z
Bankruptcy there was averted by bailouts worth hundreds of billions, and Greece was plunged into a devastating economic crisis, from which it is only now emerging. Why a World-Famous Art Exhibition Needed a Government Bailout 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z
In The Year of Magical Thinking, an account of her first year of widowhood, Joan Didion wrote of "how open we are to the persistent message that we can avert death". Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:03Z
She had been horrified by its potential for dark magic and called in a local shaman to avert the destructive spell that she believed the lizard had the power to cast. The Bloomsbury Bohemians in the British Countryside 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z
Outside the hospital where Gillies worked, blue benches were reserved for his patients; if those blue benches were occupied, squeamish passers-by would know to avert their gaze. ‘The Facemaker,’ a Grisly but Inspiring Story of Surgery During World War I 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z
The mixing and layering was meant to avert detection by censors. Fraught and Fabulous: Art That Shows a Passion for Democracy 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z
And while these details don't ruin the first season's adequate conclusion, where the pair collaborated to avert the Apocalypse, the second's overall slightness is an insufficient argument for the story's continuation. After four years, "Good Omens" returns for a jolly if rather hollow romp that falls short of sublime 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z
The identity of the customer who averted potential death has not yet been revealed, and it was unclear if Akowuah is facing charges, according to the NY Daily News. Florida Taco Bell customer narrowly dodges crash because of dash for hot sauce 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z
Their backs are turned, their faces averted; moments of great intimacy are shielded by the layering of forms and shifts in scale, like the enormous, shielding vivid yellow hands in “Butterfly.” What to See in New York ArtGalleries This Week 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z
The musicians did not act on the vote immediately and continued to negotiate to avert a strike. Kennedy Center stagehands authorize strike, putting ‘Hadestown’ and other scheduled shows in jeopardy 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z
Except for one red-haired little girl, the human faces are averted, but each body is wonderfully expressive. Photographing Life as It’s Seen, Not Staged 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z
Spoiler alert: In the last six episodes of the epic climate-change allegory, the steady rise in dragon fire warms the atmosphere, winter is averted and the White Walkers settle down peacefully in the now-temperate north. Winter TV Preview: ‘True Detective,’ ‘Carmen Sandiego’ and 19 More Shows to Watch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z
The average four-year weight gain averted, based on one cup of coffee, was 0.12 kilograms, which is about 30 grams per year. Can coffee help you avoid weight gain? Here’s what the science says 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z
Yeltsin, acting on his own instinct and initiative, simply refused to believe it, and an apocalyptic nightmare was averted. The best films for spring 2011 2011-04-05T19:00:01Z
Usually they avert their eyes from one another and the audience — but sometimes they connect conspiratorially, like prisoners who are hoping the guards will not notice their escape plan. Dance Review: ‘Danza Permanente’ at the Kitchen 2012-09-27T22:09:46Z
In it, director William Oldroyd replaced the usual chaperoned tea parties, averted gazes and stuttering proposals with a different kind of courtship ritual. Is the Favourite historically accurate? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z
The Senate on Friday rejected the GOP-led House's bill to avert a government shutdown, intensifying a partisan standoff that many in Congress hoped to avoid. Senate rejects House bill; shutdown looms 2011-09-23T16:39:00Z
New York Metropolitan Opera has agreed deals with singers' and musicians' unions, averting a lockout weeks before the new season starts. New York Met Opera unions agree deal 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z
What the press and public don’t know is that Duncan was trying to avert a crisis, not start one. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z
Although his finger hangs in the air, it extends close to the man’s face, which is abjectly averted. Donna Ferrato’s Camera Is a Weapon for Women 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z
But now they’ve hit the wall, For no one can avert The Umpire’s final call: “Outside and in the dirt.” Style Invitational Week 1421: Alternaugural Address ’21 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z
In fact, their main crisis was averted in its midseason premiere – four episodes from the end of the series. "The Good Place" comes to a worthy end, where it finds the bittersweet joy of what makes us human 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z
He proudly tells me how it was handled, just a few tears, the crisis averted. Motherlode: A Parent on the Couch 2011-03-09T19:59:01Z
The story centers on the written Thursday's efforts to find her missing real self to avert a devastating genre war. Book geeks will love Jasper Fforde's latest 2011-03-08T19:17:08Z
And some onstage violence is not averted: One character audibly snaps the neck of another in combat, and the climax includes Macduff holding the severed head of Macbeth for all to see. In London, a Bloody ?Macbeth,? for Children 2010-07-16T22:40:00Z
The surviving shows seem to have figured out how to avert the cancellations that bedeviled the industry last month. Now Is the Winter of Broadway’s Discontent 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z
Many Americans seem increasingly intent on averting their gaze. Perspective | Tainted by Fox News scandals, Bill Shine now works for us all. No big deal, right? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z
Mama eventually turns up and the crisis is averted. Anna Dewdney Dies; Author of ‘Llama Llama’ Books Was 50 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z
Our grief and vulnerability give way to anger and we search for the cause and the solution to this epidemic, hoping to avert the next such disaster. We need a new way to talk about guns: Blame, rage and UCLA 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z
Written and directed by Sean Hartley, this musical from the Poppy Seed Players of the Kaufman Center shows how Queen Esther saved the day and averted the wrath of her husband’s evil minister, Haman. Spare Times: For Children, for March 2-8 2012-03-01T22:36:11Z
Again I was about to walk away, but she never averted her eyes from me, waiting for me to get it.  Fiction: You Live Here Now 2012-07-14T16:00:00Z
And some of the newly jobless were teachers and others whose layoffs Obama had tried to avert through $35 billion in federal aid to states, which the GOP candidates also opposed. GOP slams Obama over new jobless figures 2011-12-03T02:31:00Z
The temptation can be to avert the eyes from such a terrible transformation, to help preserve the dignity of the sick, or to try to lessen one’s own distress. Portrait of a Friendship in the Face of Cancer 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z
Her poems are often breathtaking, sometimes sprawling, and her collection roams from Tucson to France among tragedies averted or narrowly survived. Four New Poetry Collections Confront Despair With Wonder 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z
Such damage was averted in Ryan Lanza's case largely by his public protestations on social media, repeatedly declaring "It wasn't me." As Conn. story unfolds, media struggle with facts 2012-12-15T21:49:08Z
Still others are so complicated that we avert our eyes rather than take stock of them: Afghanistan and Pakistan — friends or foes? Social Q?s: Social Q?s Looks Back on Its Questions and Answers 2011-11-04T20:34:33Z
America’s medical, mental healthcare and Veterans Administration systems are struggling to address problems that may have been averted by strong family and community systems in the past. Downward spiral: how addiction decimated a Wyoming family 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z
Until then, portraits featured women in profile, their eyes modestly averted, and in a domestic sphere. Three children’s and young-adult books we love, November edition 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z
Male co-workers who enter the shop politely avert their eyes to give the ladies time to cover themselves. | 'Made in Dagenham': ?60s Sweatshop Girls Fighting Ford 2010-11-19T06:05:00Z
Far from averting its eyes, the chimpanzee returns our gaze avidly. Remembering Koko, a Gorilla We Loved 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z
The piece, which will be danced at the Hayward once a week, involves a four-and-a-half-minute phrase of movement, performed in a studiedly neutral fashion with dancer or dancers averting their eyes from the audience. How the 60s New York arts scene revolutionised dance 2010-10-12T20:31:00Z
I knew that this brand was targeting me attitudinally, and I often averted my eyes. The Vexed Appeal of Reformation 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z
"He's getting a lot of flak from a lot of sides, but he averted big disasters, and communication about what he's done hasn't hit strongly enough," Bender said. Obama and Hollywood: State of their Union 2010-08-16T18:30:00Z
Mostly, he said, he hopes the coins will empower people to acknowledge others who are in need, instead of averting their eyes. ‘Breadcoin’ is a new currency in D.C. for people in need 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z
An online petition “encouraging Met Opera management to engage in good-faith negotiations and avert a lockout” attracted more than 11,000 signatures. Met’s Labor Woes Divide Opera Fans as Well as Participants 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z
But the potted plants aren't there to look good - they are a security measure to avert terrorist attacks during the film festival. Cannes deploys flower power to boost film festival security 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z
Disaster averted Authorities say five people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after the incident. Beiber's manager facing charges 2010-03-25T16:52:00Z
Week 1239, combine two or more movie titles: “Doctor Zhivago, This Is Spinal Tap”: A poorly trained Russian immigrant physician must rely on his nurse’s expertise to avert medical disaster. Style Invitational Week 1262: Clue us in 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z
At 46, his face and demeanor are so nondescript that the moment you avert your eyes, he fades in memory, an advantage in his line of work. Invader Will Bring His Signature Street-Art Mosaics to New York 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z
This is remarkable for being the only time when Sprackland has her eyes averted. Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z
Get started on this now by deciding to delegate; then, avert your eyes. Carolyn Hax: A wife who gets things done is judged by a nitpicking husband 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z
In an especially funny anecdote, Hijuelos cool-headedly averts a mugging as he is walking to the subway from a night class at City College. 'Thoughts Without Cigarettes': Oscar Hijuelos' search for self 2011-05-25T22:54:04Z
To avert more regulations, domestic airlines voluntarily agreed to adopt customer-service plans. It’s time for Congress to stand up for air travelers 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z
When a body washes up on a beach, Carmen tells her grandchildren to avert their eyes; by then, though, hers have been pried open. At New Directors/New Films, See the World Through Perceptive Filmmakers’ Eyes 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z
Prestige television hasn’t averted its eyes from sex work, though where those eyes land can be a problem. ‘P-Valley’ Dances to a Different Tune 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z
But Robinson, whose novel, “The Ministry for the Future,” lays out a path for humanity that narrowly averts a biosphere collapse, sounded a note of cautious optimism. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z
“It’s a moment where we don’t have the political, social, societal will to avert catastrophe,” he added. Apocalypse Now-ish (Cocktails, Anyone?) 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z
When he’s elected president, he leads the charge into the Civil War as a means of averting a systematic takeover of America by power-hungry vampire hordes. Exclusive First Look ? Official Trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 2012-02-13T15:35:39Z
I don’t know if panda sex is truly facilitated by the averting of human eyes, but I’m clinging to the idea. The Rise of the Coronavirus Nature Genre 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z
And it led the UN to feed some of these people and avert starvation. 2010-02-17T09:00:00Z
Great victories, averted crises and successful parties are fondly recalled. Books of The Times: ‘Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History,’ by Michael L. Gillette 2013-01-08T15:00:00Z
Frank acknowledges the big question raised by his fascinating narrative: whether Nixon might have averted the tragic missteps that ended his presidency if Eisenhower, who died in 1969, had been around to advise him. Jeffrey Frank’s ‘Ike & Dick’: 2 strange political bedfellows 2014-02-05T21:55:34Z
There’s some nebulous peril looming — you don’t know what it is, but you know you’re supposed to be doing things to avert it, and you’re not doing any of them. Climate anxiety doesn’t have to ruin your life. Here’s how to manage it. 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z
A study published in Current Biology found they not only failed to avert their eyes, but were not tempted by distracting treats dangled during the screening. Chimps gripped by homemade King Kong movie, finds Japanese study 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z
Here, for once, the catastrophe is narrowly averted. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z
Strikes are often averted at the last minute or last only a few days. Sizing Up the Bargain Potential of One-Way Airfares 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z
Dyson calls this the "Way to Wellville," where such programs reinforce each other, promote awareness, and hopefully avert expensive healthcare costs over the long term. Tech investor gets five towns to join social-health experiment 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z
The narrative hovers, averts its eyes and sucks its teeth at the misfortunes of the characters. Toni Morrison’s ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z
Prosecutors portrayed the accident as potentially deadly, an outcome averted only because an emergency stop was engaged. Production Company Guilty in Harrison Ford’s ‘Star Wars’ Injury 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z
What about all those vets at his clinic who tell of marriages saved, suicides averted, careers restored — all by painless half-hours under the coils. ‘Brain zapping’: An experimental treatment for PTSD that war veterans say has changed their lives 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z
The doctors are mostly expat volunteers, like Adrian, from the same western countries that averted their eyes while Sierra Leone burned. The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna 2010-05-07T23:17:00Z
A political drama about an oppressive, corrupt regime trying to avert insurrection is compelling, even if this rendering of it seems a little out of date. Adam Rayner Stars in ‘Tyrant,’ a Thriller on FX 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z
At the dorms, he pointed out the window of his room in House 29, averting his eyes from the old cemetery at the center of the quadrangle. My father's bittersweet homecoming: A family visit to the institution that treated him for leprosy 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z
We praise a democracy but avert our gaze from its more troubling habits. Theodore Roosevelt whipped up a frenzy of populism in 1912. We're still living with the consequences. 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z
That nightmare scenario was averted, thankfully; the blow to civic pride would have been irreparable, its cascading consequences immeasurable. Great museums seem to matter for the locations on the shortlist for Amazon’s HQ2 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z
There, she averted the end of the world, splashily and with Tom Cruise playing her sidekick. A Star Crosses Hollywood Boundaries at the Border 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z
She followed it up with several novels combining technological themes with thriller-type plots in which enterprising children rescue their parents and avert disasters. Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman: 'I'm looking forward to redressing the balance for teenagers' 2013-06-05T12:54:04Z
The episode was quite a departure for the series, which usually spends its hour giving us a few more tidbits about Jane Doe’s back story while the F.B.I. team averts a calamity in pulse-pounding fashion. ‘Blindspot’ Season 1, Episode 13: His Name is Jonas 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z
As embodied by Hiddleston, this revulsion presents a painful spectacle, and you want to avert your eyes, except that you can’t. 3 celebrities portray Shakespeare’s uncommon men 2014-02-03T06:51:22Z
The only chance of averting disaster is for the younger versions of the superhero ensemble to change history in their own timeline in order to avoid the catastrophic events of the future. Omar Sy signs up for new X-Men film 2013-03-04T11:51:43Z
"If members ratify it, I think we're going to avert a strike. This contract will keep the town humming." Teamsters move closer to settlement with commercial producers 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z
“Timing plus empathy equals a successful recruitment … timing plus empathy can even, occasionally, avert an attack.” Mom and Dad Were Spies: Two New Novels Unravel Complicated Legacies, One Secret Mission at a Time 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z
We urgently need to do – and I mean actually do – something radical to avert a global catastrophe. Humans – the real threat to life on Earth 2013-06-29T23:05:50Z
The more Cruise tries to avert continuing disaster, the more vulnerable he appears. Two men. One dream 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z
With a deadline just hours away, CBS Corp. and Dish Network continue negotiations to try to reach a deal that would avert a blackout of CBS-owned television stations for Dish subscribers around the country. CBS, Dish Network negotiations face deadline tonight 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z
That I was averting my gaze from the lovely scenery and from safety’s way was both dangerous and stupid. Vacationing Like a Candidate 2012-07-27T18:17:02Z
Of Blood and Fire is a transfixingly powerful book that does not dwell on horrors, but does not avert its eyes, either. Of Blood and Fire by Jahanara Imam, translated by Mustafizur Rahman – review 2013-03-01T18:19:01Z
The President takes a pass on solving the Sustainable Growth Rate’s impending cuts for physician payments, asserting that the cuts will be averted, but providing no solutions for how to reach that end. President Obama's Disappointing Health Care Budget 2012-02-21T15:24:29Z
I’ve known guys who won’t look at a provocative roadside billboard, guys who avert their eyes when they see a panty hose ad in The Financial Times. The lie detector test that saved my marriage 2013-01-02T22:01:00Z
If you are offended, you need only avert your gaze. Ask Amy: Sister frets about passive expectant parents 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z
Some footage nearly forces us to avert our eyes as Brandy bravely reveals herself; other sequences allow Burne and Greene to work in tandem, creating imaginative detours that veer into fiction. 'Inherent Vice,' 'Dear White People,' and The Most Underrated Films of 2014 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z
In 2016, some schools in the commercial hub of Shanghai started using a textbook to cultivate masculinity in boys to avert what they feared was a masculinity crisis. Make-up does not make boy bands 'effeminate', Chinese film reviewer... 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z
In these poems Tom Sleigh draws on his experience working as a journalist in the Middle East and Africa, confronting various forms of trauma without averting his gaze. The Poems That Poets Turn To in a Time of Strife 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z
Some people put photographs of lithe supermodels on their fridges to help avert caloric mishaps. T Magazine: Eat Her Words 2011-05-20T19:45:58Z
Catastrophe averted, they catch a boat with Nick and Susan, creating their own Fun Squad. Valentine's Day: let's hear it for Hollywood's odd couples 2013-02-14T08:01:01Z
Research by famed housing expert Louis Winnick showed that the population growth caused by immigrants kept city services afloat — their subway tokens, for instance, helped avert painful transit cuts. Immigrants will save us 2012-08-04T16:00:00Z
Because Mr. Spacey doesn’t do chastened the way he does slippery and snide, you want to avert your eyes; eating humble pie just doesn’t become him. | 'Father of Invention': ?Father of Invention,? With Kevin Spacey - Review 2011-10-13T23:24:32Z
Many a bad fur day has been averted by dog groomers. 12 secrets of dog groomers 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z
Danger averted, we continued on to our home for the night. In the Cotswolds, a weekend on a farm B&B
Sometimes he would avert his gaze from a distance. Macaulay by Zareer Masani – review 2013-07-22T09:00:00Z
She gives a slight smile and I literally avert my eyes right away. What I Wore: Olivia Munn: What I Wore for Fashion Week 2011-09-16T23:04:09Z
President Biden signed a measure that would force railway workers to accept a deal that averts a strike but does not include paid sick leave. ‘S.N.L.’ Mocks Herschel Walker Ahead of Georgia’s Senate Vote 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z
I also have also spent the past few years desperately trying to avert my eyes every time I’ve seen a lovey-dovey photo op with Swift and her latest paramour. I can’t bear to watch HiddleSwift: The public spectacle of love-tweet-delete is just too much 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z
But if you avert your eyes quickly, there’s no time for your perception of difference to change. To See and Be Seen: These Dancers Make Disability Visible 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z
We see Molly look at him repeatedly, yet he often averts his gaze elsewhere. ‘Insecure’ Season 1, Episode 5: Making the Cut 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z
Neither plan may be enough to avert a downgrade by ratings agency S&P, which has indicated it wants to see a $4 trillion deficit reduction plan over 10 years. Obama to address nation on debt deadlock 2011-07-25T20:58:00Z
In the film, Black brought a slobby mirthfulness to the role — you believed him when he said he had a hangover, and you naturally averted your eyes when his flesh spilled over his jeans. Broadway's 'School of Rock' is saved by the students 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z
There’s a kind of famous that can probably feel our averted eyes. Aaron Rodgers Is Now a Jet (and Becoming a New Yorker, Too) 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z
“That’s what I call a close shave,” Williams concluded of the crisis averted. Wife shames cyclist husband for shaving his legs with her razor 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z
“We need additional financial resources to safely resume vaccination campaigns and prioritise immunisation systems that are critical to protect children and avert other epidemics besides Covid-19,” Fore said. UN urges resumption of mass measles and polio vaccinations 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z
By then I was oblivious to my nakedness, but she struggled to undo the knots while averting her eyes. Experience: I got stuck hanging naked from a tree 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z
He is rewarded for his efforts with a make-out session in front of yet another band trying to avert their eyes while playing a private concert. RECAP: The Bachelorette Watch: Who Is Getting a Hometown Date? 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z
Butler suggests that palliative care, milder, less invasive protocols and physical therapy are often underutilized, work well or well enough, and avert the ravages and often devastating aftereffects of expensive Hail Mary treatments. Review | The surprising comfort of a new book about death 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z
But the hazard is elegantly averted, especially by David Edgar in his entertaining Black Tulips, a model of how to educate discreetly. The Great Game: Afghanistan 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z
And the prisoners’ only real hope was that the activists who were summoned to be on the observers’ committee might somehow do something to avert bloodshed. Inside the Attica prison uprising: “We’re all less than nothing to the people that matter” 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z
His attorney, Craig Charie, said, "These are fabricated allegations to avert the real issue: that she fails to occupy the premises as her primary residence." Faye Dunaway offers to give up subsidized New York apartment 2011-08-03T23:15:35Z
A few words of pained regret are muttered; a larger coffee cup is quickly secured, and with an apologetic look and minimal spillage, the calamity is averted. Hugh Grant contemplates the complexities of a film actor’s life 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z
National bankruptcy looms and last-ditch attempts to avert it are stalled by partisan infighting. Art Review: ?Drawings From the Louvre? at the Morgan Library - Review 2011-09-29T21:30:26Z
Ever since, it seems, Kiefer has been pushing himself, exploring the limits, the things from which humanity would avert its eyes. Anselm Kiefer Raises History’s Ghosts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z
But this apocalyptic fiction almost became fact in 1983, averted only by the doubts of a single Soviet Union officer. Review: ‘The Man Who Saved the World’ Recounts a Cold War Near Miss 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z
“Stress Test” conveys in visceral terms just how precarious things were during the crisis, just how frightened many first responders were, and just what an achievement it was to avert a major depression. Books of The Times: In ‘Stress Test,’ Timothy F. Geithner Recalls Crisis Days 2014-05-11T21:52:32Z
Yes, your ears will bleed, but of trickles of brain matter desperately averting a 43-minute death. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z
Evidence-based early childhood projects are among the smartest ways to avert enduring poverty. The brain game 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z
As much as you may loathe the characters, you can’t avert your eyes. Critic?s Notebook: At Tribeca Film Festival, Porous Borders on Display 2012-04-15T18:31:43Z
The crisis has been averted and we are both in therapy. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sorry, Dad, but you’re the one donning a trashy look 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z
This meat substitute relies heavily on genetic modification — a phrase Impossible’s website doesn’t use, presumably to avert the negative reactions that usually follow. Will meatless burgers save the world? 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z
Ms. Baldwin goes through extended jags of Tylenol PM only to cut herself off after a fortnight to avert dependency. Mothers and Sleep Medication 2011-11-04T21:17:55Z
Washington, meanwhile, rallied the troops, probably averting a total rout, and brought them back near Fort Necessity, where he presided over the burial of Braddock — directly beneath the road the general had built. On a General’s Trail, Summoning America’s History 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z
Jude Law returns as Holmes' somewhat reluctant sidekick Dr. Watson, whose honeymoon plans are thrown into disarray when he is called on to help avert catastrophe in 1890s Europe. Guy Ritchie -- pressure paid off in Sherlock sequel 2011-12-09T14:03:28Z
My friend looked at me, his gaze cool and steady, and without averting his eyes from mine instructed the waiter to bring him an antipasto of salami and cheese, followed by the sautéed calf’s liver. Cultural Studies: Food Is the Latest Arena for Macho Contests 2012-09-15T00:37:02Z
The supplementary paradox of The Time Of Our Lives involves the chaos we create for ourselves in trying to avert chaos. Time of Our Lives, the Years That Made Us - TV review 2013-06-23T22:18:00Z
The driver then tells me: "Last week there was going to be a war on Gaza but it was averted at the last minute." Palestine: Diary of a historic month 2012-12-14T10:00:02Z
But even if you were to avert your gaze, the tragic countenance of Israeli Palestinian actor Gassan Abbas would be waiting when you looked up again. You’re tempted to look away during ‘I Shall Not Hate.’ But you shouldn’t. 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z
The magnitude and rapidity of these potential effects should place the reduction or elimination of animal agriculture at the forefront of strategies for averting disastrous climate change. Peter Singer states "we are gambling with the future of our planet for the sake of hamburgers" 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z
Surely by encouragement, and empowerment, and invigoration, and by boosting morale by imagining difficulties overcome, dangers averted, order restored and justice done. Diamondbacks 1, Story 0 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z
Even outsiders could have spotted red flags, but averted their eyes as if they wanted to believe. How One Company Scammed Silicon Valley. And How It Got Caught. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z
But he expressed hope that a walkout would be averted. Teamsters vote to authorize strike over commercials contract 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z
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