Word: dourness
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...even British diplomats dubious about what leverage he can bring to bear. As a result, Labour floats in a semi-leaderless limbo - the ideal conditions for conspiracies against the heir apparent, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, 55. After a clunky conference speech, plenty of delegates worried that his dour Scottish solidity would pale against the fresh-faced ease of David Cameron, the 39-year-old Tory leader. An ICM poll shows voters already think Cameron will make a better Prime Minister, and that Labour is out of ideas and more divided than the Tories. One Labour delegate brushed...
...Idle has said that he was encouraged to musicalize MP&HG after seeing Mel Brooks' stage version of The Producers. The was the show that reminded Broadway that its strong suit was musical comedy, and not the dour Les Miz and Phantom and Sondheims and the rest of the sing-song drama lot. In Spamalot, as in The Producers, everything is absolutely spot-on and studiously ingratiating. Idle's show isn't desperate to please, really; rather, it's confident that everything it does will provide pleasure...
...lived on the ninth floor of a rundown apartment building in a Bangkok district full of similarly rundown buildings and guest houses. For Karr, it was an inexpensive place to reside; apartments in his building rent for as little as $160 a month. Other residents describe him as a dour loner who didn't let anyone into his peripatetic life, traveling in and out of Thailand. An Internet caf? clerk in Karr's building said he was a regular customer who kept a close eye on users in neighboring booths, as if he was afraid they were spying...
These fundamentalists, meanwhile, are behaving like drama queens. They're throwing a tantrum and gossiping away with dour smugness, all because there's a party in Jerusalem, and they're not invited...
...demeaning fetching and carrying, but in return she gets to wear lots of swell outfits, go to A-list parties and flirt with devastating immoralists. In that somewhat limited sense, the movie is, I think, a triumph. And I feel ungrateful - even a little ashamed - that the dour side of me wanted kept wanting Andrea to seal her pact with the smartly shod devil and go straight to hell. That's for another picture - one that no one will ever want...