Word: dejectedness
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Even his language is solitary: Dole gets ribbed for his speaking style, the guttural growls, the verbal wheat germ ("anti-dumping; level the playing field; Super Three; may not mean a lot to you, but it's important"), the unpopulated syntax ("Have to look into that. See what happens in...
Complaints about crime, unemployment, corruption and the growing disparity between haves and have-nots rounded out the chorus of distress. By day's end Yeltsin appeared tired and beaten. He seemed to have been unaware of the passion of discontent outside Moscow, a city about as representative of Russia as...
"The whole team feels a little dejected because we didn't rebound as well as we would have liked," Meringoff said. "We feel at a loss for stable ground."
More obviously explicit, "Last Tango in Paris" by now owes much of its fame to its sex scenes--still somewhat jarring today--despite a notably wrenching performance by Marlon Brando as a dejected, desperate husband. The movie was immediately banned in the home country of the Italian director, Bernardo Bertolucci...
The result in recent weeks has been a president who seemed increasingly tired, dejected and short-tempered. Rudenstine also appeared to have lost significant weight since his appointment three springs ago.