Word: dourness
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...What on earth has happened to American conservatism? It used to be a reliably dour movement, a sober restraint upon the wishful thinking of mushy-minded liberals. But it has slipped, somehow, from realism to utopian fantasy. On the domestic side, there is the sugarplum delusion of endless tax cuts and untrammeled government spending. In foreign policy, there is a wildly idealistic pro-democracy jihad. (Iraq will be the first of many dominoes to fall, it is said...
...their architects. Libeskind and his wife and partner Nina--she also manages his practice--are recognizable specimens of the global cultural elite. As a rule, they dress all in black and gray, the International Gothic of metropolitan chic. Nothing else about them is dour. His conversation, in particular, is a series of sharp, rabbity observations on history, music and architecture, punctuated by bursts of laughter. He reminds you of a cross between Martin Scorsese and Tickle Me Elmo...
...Doing Fine.” Perched on a stool in a bland shirt and tie, Beck shunned the goofiness that waxed falsetto on Axl Rose and tossed out two-dollar quips during this summer’s solo tour. Instead, he seemed muted by the mature, dour loneliness that fills his latest album, a beautiful group of breakup dirges called Sea Change...
...winning a string of 24 world-class races - overcame the Aussies' smoother technique with raw power. All in all, a good week's sport in Spain. FOOTBALL Boring, Boring Arsenal Time was that opposing fans would taunt Arsenal as boring. That was when the north London side played a dour, defensive game. Today it is the team's own fans who chant, "Boring, boring Arsenal," with irony. The side is in severe danger of being responsible for playing the most skillful and colorful football in England's Premier League. Under manager Arsène Wenger, Arsenal has become a team...
...Scotland, memoirists would be expected to lacerate their enemies and rain garbage on them, and if you raked in $18 million doing it--bingo! more power to you. A wonderful dour tribe, the Scots, and the right to groan and moan is sacred in Scotland. Here we have been duped out of it by the people who gave us aromatherapy and seaweed wraps...