Word: curmudgeoned
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...driving writers to reduce everything to “nutshell truths for the breakfast table.”Newman was writing in the middle of the nineteenth century, but his criticism has a ring of truth to it. While he may sound like a bit of a curmudgeon, the format of the daily newspaper is certainly not conducive to reflection.Please bear in mind that I am loath to denigrate newspapers in any way. I myself am an avid reader of newspapers, and this piece itself is published in a paper. Then again, Plato decried the pernicious new invention of writing...
...usually use this space to vent whatever frustration happens to be bouncing around my brain—to paraphrase Anna Quindlen, I try to walk the fine line between being pointedly eloquent and being a pain in the butt. But there are times when even a curmudgeon like myself should give credit where credit is due, and so I find myself devoting my 800 words to asking not what went wrong but what went right...
This cowboy-curmudgeon acknowledges he's pleased by the praise for a film he's proud of. "All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination," Jones says, "and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly...
...research showing you can raise your level of happiness. For Seligman and like-minded researchers, that involves working on the three components of happiness--getting more pleasure out of life (which can be done by savoring sensory experiences, although, he warns, "you're never going to make a curmudgeon into a giggly person"), becoming more engaged in what you do and finding ways of making your life feel more meaningful...
...curmudgeon, but I’m sick of talking to people when I have no desire to listen to them speak. The standard script of “My name is X,” “My name is Y,” “Nice to meet you” gets stale, especially during these first weeks of the semester. As a second semester senior, I’ve feigned enough smiles to decorate a dentist’s office and—just like all of you—I’ve said...