Word: dolefullness
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DIED. PAT PAULSEN, 69, doleful comedian whose mock campaigns for President may have fooled even himself; of complications from cancer; in Tijuana, Mexico. The deadpan Paulsen sharpened his stump wit on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, opposing sex education ("Let the kids today learn it where we did--in the...
It was a season of ennui and loathing. Pundits exhausted their thesauruses in the search for new synonyms for doleful, dreary and vacuous. Ordinary folks made the classic finger-in-throat gesture, or pitched forward face first into their azalea beds. On the cover of the Nation, presidential history was...
That would be all right with Sam, a wry and doleful man with a taste for irony. He's tired of swallowing invidious comparisons between his performance in office and his dad's--especially since he was never that fond of the old man. Besides, he has new business to...
I've been listening to these diatribes for nearly a year now. I've kept quiet on the subject, because I was writing news stories on randomization and it would have been a conflict of interest for me to write editorials on it. But in the face of pathetic arguments...
Her colleagues' reaction was disdain; yet over the next 24 years her dispatches from the biggest and longest-running study of divorced children only got bleaker. Wallerstein took an ever growing readership through a dispiriting landscape of anger and grief, of children unable to fit in with peers, and young...