Word: dourness
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...uneasy silence after her pronouncement, the Secretary put up her hand with a final observation. "I just want to say," she cooed, "that it is a great honor being the only woman in the room and spending Valentine's Day with so many handsome men." The dour diplomats couldn't stifle their chuckles...
Great filmmakers create, or attract, great actors. Bergman's performers, especially his actresses--Ullmann, Eva Dahlbeck, Bibi and Harriet Andersson--have transformed his dour testaments into radiance. August (who will play the young Darth Vader's mother in the new Star Wars film) is an excellent heir to that magnificent tradition. Emotions don't play on her face; they live there in all their complexity and contradiction. They flush into a mischievous grin or produce tears as natural as a summer shower. Her face is a book. Read it for two hours and know the triumph and pain...
...tent. (Pretty comfy.) Read two of his billets-doux to his beloved Martha. (He's no Robert James Waller.) The objects are all featured in a charming exhibition of artifacts that have never before left Washington's Mount Vernon residence and that go a long way toward humanizing the dour and frosty image of our Founding Father. The show, in honor of the bicentennial of Washington's death, will make its way around the country for all of 1999. What the collection also reveals is that it was Washington, not Jefferson, who was the true visionary planner and manager...
Those who know Primakov say that in his personal life, he is the complete opposite of his dour public image. He has the reputation of an accomplished tamada, the master of ceremonies who keeps parties going with banter, songs and humorous speeches. He is widely described as a very loyal, though discriminating, friend, with a social circle that includes former perestroika-era officials, entertainers and academics...
...best known as a serious, soul-baring folk-rocker, but the chart success of Sheik's 1996 single Barely Breathing outed him as a pop tunesmith with a knack for gorgeous songwriting that doesn't resort to schmaltz. Sheik's new CD veers back toward his dour side, where he finds plenty to be glum about--the perils of record-business starmaking in Nothing Special and the falseness of big-city life in That Says It All. It's no surprise that he intends to avoid being trapped in lightweight pop: he's 28 and wants a long career...