Word: dourness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...much time courting young people since then, either. (Their fixations on prescription drugs for the elderly and leaving Social Security alone are utter losers with nongraybeards.) If the Democrats want to think romantic as well as big, the obvious area is the environment. Several of the candidates have proposed dour, incremental "energy-independence" schemes that feature many of the worthy, ho-hum notions of years past--conservation, fuel-efficiency standards and the like. But the fun part of the environment is gizmos. The President, a gizmo kind of guy, embraced the hydrogen car. The Democrats could do that and more...
...took up the burden of being a Sox fan because the collective emotion fosters a real sense of identity, of belonging to a community that takes pride in its repeatedly dour fate. Being a Red Sox fan is like joining a city-wide support group, with sympathetic well-wishers in constant attendance. But since the hat fits, I’m happy to wear it, especially now that the team is ruled by a triumvirate of stars and believes in closing by committee. To all you Yankees fans out there, try a Sox hat on for size. You might just...
...Akira Kurosawa was the least Japanese of Japanese auteurs, that Satyajit Ray's films had little to do with India's giddy musical movies. Now comes Kaurismaki, a foreign-film Oscar nominee. How Finnish is he? Do the locals really smoke and drink so much? Are they this dour and deadpan funny...
...penalized by a criminal court." That should change soon, as lawmakers catch up to international standards. Meanwhile, if this sentence survives appeal, many titans of Germany's now-defunct Neuer Markt have a new reason for stage fright. The Bottom Line Mr. Brown is not really the rather dour person he tries to present to us, but rather a romantic character BRIDGET ROSEWELL, economist for the Greater London Authority, on the British Chancellor's highly optimistic growth forecasts
...succeeded in killing one journalist. In theory Ansar al-Islam was routed ten days ago, though I have my doubts (they lost at most half their fighters, so I expect they will be back sooner or later). I spent a week trying to get into the head of this dour, brutal and often suicidal group of fighters. I did not succeed, although I did spend time looking over their bomb paraphernalia, was given my very own bomb timer, and wandered through a particularly sinister detention center...