Word: charmlessness
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...stand out. Redman and Gorrilaz put forth “Gorillaz On My Mind,” a playful track melding ape noises, Damon Albarn’s self-mocking “La-la-la-la”s off Blur’s “Charmless Man” and Redman’s charming lyrics like “Full of whiskey/ Looking for Lewinsky/ So I can get head.” Ever-captivating spastic Busta Rhymes joins Silkk the Shocker and a catchy bass riff courtesy of the Dub Pistols...
...Devil Rays and Oakland A's, the other bleeding candidate for "contraction" is the Minnesota Twins. Unlike the Expos, the Twins have loyal fans and a competitive if inexperienced team. But the state's flinty taxpayers have refused to chip in for a new stadium to replace the charmless Metrodome, meaning that the Twins can't enhance revenues from skyboxes and naming rights and such. The Twins also have an owner, billionaire banker Carl Pohlad, who has been unwilling to invest in big salaries. "It makes no sense for Major League Baseball to be in markets that generate insufficient local...
...many Europeans these days, the charmless fate of America feels very much like what the poet W.H. Auden described as the state of most poets' output: good ideas, badly executed. Wealthy, work-obsessed, gobbling down small, hurried pleasures in cholesterol-laden chunks as we contemplate the risings and fallings of the Dow, we tend to forget that charm, as Camus observed in The Fall, can provide us with "a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question...
...working holidays go, Thanksgiving 2000 was not the worst that James Baker has spent on assignment for someone named Bush. That distinction belongs to Thanksgiving 1990, when George W.'s father dispatched his Secretary of State to Sanaa, the charmless capital city of Yemen, to ensure Yemeni acquiescence in the military action being planned against Iraq. For hours, Baker had to sit across from President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was then despised by most of America's Middle East allies, watch him eat a messy local delicacy with his hands, and try to keep his own meal down while...
This is silly. Every schoolboy knows the only worthwhile reason to become invisible is so you can case the girls' locker room undetected. Caine (an utterly charmless Kevin Bacon) does use his power voyeuristically in Hollow Man. But this being an up-to-date--that is to say, thoroughly ugly--movie, he doesn't stop there. He becomes a rapist. And then, of course, a murderer...