Word: cravener
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...could also remind audiences of important issues rarely addressed in movies: the estrangement of genius ("He is better at this," says Joe Mantegna as Fred, "than I've ever been at anything in my life"), the sick thrill of competition (a lesser player stares at Josh with craven awe) and the romance of failure. "Maybe it's better not to be the best," Josh says as the competition heats up; "then you can lose and it's O.K."The movie's subject is unusual, but its themes are universal: a child's discovery of what makes him special...
Will anyone drive the beast out of Bosnia? The terror of getting involved is powerful. The craven thought is that one Bosnia begets another. But Bosnia will happen again and again elsewhere unless this one is stopped. Europe should have undertaken the job. But the Europeans long ago exhausted themselves in sponsoring such projects as colonialism and two world wars. They have ended up smug, fat-bottomed and morally useless...
Largely in reaction to that craven and gratuitous behavior, Congress has generated a flurry of bills that would attach political conditions to China's most-favored-nation status. In fact, MFN is a misnomer: it implies special treatment but really means normal, equal treatment. All but a handful of the 187 countries on earth have MFN, including such pariahs and miscreants as Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya and Burma...
...sort of thirtysomething meets MTV: fast, frank and relentlessly yuppie. Characterized only by their sound bites, the principals (a cruise director named Susan, a TV sportscaster named Thumper) seem even more superficial and craven than usual, and the scattershot storytelling technique, fun at first, is eventually just annoying...
...publisher in the '30s, and when young Bill took over the company after the war, he turned to lurid fun, producing a line of successful gore-and-monster comics that 1) subsidized less profitable publications in his stable, 2) inspired and influenced future horrauteurs from Stephen King to Wes Craven and George Romero, and 3) were the subject of a 1954 Senate subcommittee investigation into the causes of juvenile delinquency...