Example sentences for: ridley

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  • In London, columnist Matt Ridley of the conservative Daily Telegraph departed from the paper's fiercely anti-Clinton line by saying that "compared with ancient emperors, modern American presidents--even a Kennedy or a Clinton--are models of monogamy."

  • for the writing as well as for the science," says Mark Ridley in the New York Times Book Review . But some also use the occasion to take evolutionary psychology to task: "[I]t wants to explain too much, too easily" (Jim Holt, the Wall Street Journal ).

  • The ancient Chinese emperor Fei-ti, Ridley explained, had a harem of 10,000 virgins and "was expected to make love to two a day, and was trained in special techniques to make sure that he could manage this."

  • The beaches south of Puerto Escondido are prime nesting grounds for the endangered Ridley sea turtles.

  • Cast as an indomitable woman who endures hellish training with an all-male Navy squadron, Moore "becomes perversely spectacular" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and transcends the movie's "banal premises and predictable conclusion" (Richard Schickel, Time ). But some critics find the fascination of director Ridley Scott ( Alien , Thelma & Louise ) with Moore's suffering hopelessly sadistic.


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