Word: dourness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After going unsolved for 10 months, the case was handed over to a new team: Detectives Brian Meaney and Felipe Villalobos. Meaney had been on the force for 23 years, seven of those in narcotics. He has the tough, dour demeanor of someone who knows how bad it can get out there. Villalobos, 14 years with the police, worked gangs and sex crimes before coming to homicide but has a more empathetic, sunnier approach to life. "Brian is very intense, I do the softer approach. We feed off each other real well," says Villalobos...
...What the fellow was about was a dour, insufferable, high-principled and wholly admirable political puritanism that makes a mockery of today's craven politics-by-focus-group-and-poll. John Quincy Adams could not be accused of doing merely the popular thing; he made a fetish of doing the unpopular thing. I don't say that George W. Bush bears any discernible resemblance to John Quincy Adams, beyond being a WASP son deeply proud and warmly devoted to his father...
...midnight, the Palestinian gunmen stopped shooting. Mor, dour and darkly bearded, watched them pull back from the edge of the graveyard behind the tomb. They had got to within 40 yds. of his men. Mor picked up the red phone and called Aviv again, asking permission to take a squad into Aida to go after the shooters. Aviv was willing to hit the Palestinians hard. He had ordered a grenade machine gun to fire on the Palestinian town of Beit Jala that night, after Tanzim fighters opened up on the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. But this was too much. Aida...
...DPRK's poverty is visible everywhere. From the crumbling buildings to the rusty electric trams and buses, to the dour citizens hauling tattered, bulging knapsacks along the streets of the capital. The overly helpful minder from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was evasive when asked if the houses on the way into the city had electricity. "Yes... there are electric lights in those buildings," he said sheepishly. He meant there are lights there, but no electricity to run them...
Jakob Dylan looks like a guy who's finally comfortable in his own skin. As he walks into the restaurant in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City, the 30-year-old frontman for the folk-rock band the Wallflowers, whose lyrics are often dour, even has a slight smile on his face. His black hair is lightly tousled. As he sits down, he removes his wraparound dark glasses to reveal wide, soulful eyes that seem to beg for music-video closeups. He admits freely that he used to have a reputation for being difficult ("People...