Word: dourness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...liven her discussion with even the slightest dip into the troughs of low culture. Sontag has long been mocked and feared for her imposing figure, and nowhere do we see the intensity of her sternness than in an essay collection like this. It’s not her excessively dour prose style, but rather the cumulative effect of dozens of articles with precious few pauses to point out why these artists manage to be special in some way that hits the author, Susan Sontag, personally...
That line is one of the album's appeals to youths with the small-town blues. It's also one of its habitual overstatements. "Everything sucks, and I can prove it," Taylor croaks on I Am Hated. Instead of providing proof, however, he deals mostly in dour, cuss-laden generalizations. With song titles like People = S__t, it's no wonder radio has been slow to embrace the band...
...Trent Lott, Dennis Hastert and the Republicans in Congress want an emergency cut in the capital-gains tax - the tax levied on profit-making investment transactions - to get Wall Street churning again. And aside from the fact that profit-making investments aren't exactly common in these dour Dow days, it might work - such a cut would likely encourage some investors to liquidate some investments to free up spending cash. And a flurry of selling - just what Wall Street needs, more selling - could indeed send some tax-receipt cash back to Washington in a hurry...
Like another bountiful fall offering, David Lynch's Mulholland Dr., the Coen film serves up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and twisted identities. It's a smart essay on the overwhelming human need to love someone who's bad news. Thornton's fabulously dour performance--a prime display of postmortem acting--reminds us that fall is the time when things...
...with Lara Croft, is laughably square in its approach to romance. Chorus: "Angelina/ Can you feel it?/ Watch the angels as they're dancing up above/ Angelina/ What's come between us?/ Could it be the magic and the mystery of love?" "Dark and Mad," and "Your Blue Shadow," dour ruminations set to plodding country, do little to improve the situation. The sense Thornton gives the listener is that while acting might be a craft he perfected back in the "Sling Blade" days, music is a passion he uses to drag into the open his most personal affairs. What...