Word: dourness
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This bushy-browed, energetic man of 56 does not look like the popular picture of the dour theologian-much less like a neo-Calvinist theologian. But among top prophets of neo-orthodoxy's contemporary "theology of crisis," Dr. Emil Brunner ranks second only to his fellow Swiss, Karl Earth...
...general consensus of date-takers among those guardians of antiquity seems to be that, "Girls love it." One dour model T man was heard to remark traitorously, however, "The engine makes so much noise, a woman's hearse before she gets home...
Perspective-a highly useful editorial requisite-was what Matthews was after (except for vacations and an occasional overnight journey, he has scarcely been out of the ME's chair from the day he took it over in the dour month of February...
...Beauty and order are inseparable." So Portugal's dour, scholarly Premier António de Oliveira Salazar is fond of saying. As a spangled religious procession wound through a Lisbon park, both these elements of his 14-year-old clerico-fascist regime were evident. Beauty was represented by the silken banners and swinging censers, order by the plainclothesmen of the dreaded P.V.D.E. (Police of Vigilance and Defense of the State...
...Manhattan, the trial of Henry Lustig had barely begun when the sky started caving in on the dour little owner of Manhattan's twelve glittery Longchamps restaurants. Unexpectedly, two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring with Lustig to defraud the U.S. of $2,872,766 in taxes on wartime profits...