Word: dismalness
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...industry where you are what you drive, perception is important. The paucity of awards, the firings, the closing of glitzy Talk magazine (which Miramax co-funded), the bouncing release date and swollen budget of Martin Scorsese's $95 million Gangs of New York, as well as dismal showings by its TV division and two recent box-office duds, Kate & Leopold and The Shipping News, all indicate that Miramax may have finally come to the end of an unparalleled winning streak...
Even though Kohli and others were already considering religious transition before college, there may be aspects of student life at Harvard that encourage such a change. “The preoccupation with wealth and the focus on rather dismal ‘realist’ theories in class has prompted me to seek out the ideals of acceptance and not-wanting and compassion in Buddhism,” says Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05, who made the decision to become a Buddhist shortly before coming to college...
Despite the dismal beginning, Sage creates an unexpectedly uplifting conclusion to her memoir. Sage surmounts obstacles and does not allow the world’s view of her to decide her fate. She overcomes the bad blood passed on to her by her family, capping off an intriguing, though not enthralling, life story...
...office on its opening weekend: it earned $46 million, the second best opening ever for an animated film (after Monsters, Inc.'s $63 million). Its mammoth debut was a thundering surprise, not just because the PG-rated film came from 20th Century Fox, a studio with a dismal animation track record, but also because a curious 30% of the audience was what Hollywood calls "nonfamily" moviegoers. In other words, the audience was not just moms and dads and kids--they are to be expected--but also young adults and teens, including the species Homo adolescence, teenage boys who usually avoid...
Think of Jessica Stein as yet another victim in the endless urban guerrilla warfare of today's battle of the sexes. Trapped in a dull job, her ambitions as a painter thwarted, she draws her hopeless dating choices from a dismal sludge of geeks, nerds and cranks...