Word: dourness
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...worth an estimated $30 million. He will probably try to run a closely controlled operation, like the one set up by H.R. Haldeman in the Nixon White House. A lively storyteller who has an easy rapport with his fellow Irishman in the Oval Office, Regan is far less dour than Haldeman, but he may turn out to be as tough. His emotions boil close to the surface, and his explosions of temper keep aides on their toes--and a little cowed...
...revolution as amour fou, which Diane Keaton knows something about from her turns as Louise Bryant in Reds and the frazzled Mata Hari in The Little Drummer Girl. Keaton and Australian Director Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career) might seem to make a good protofeminist match, but the results are dour and disappointing. The film's strongest suit--Russell Boyd's sepulchrally seductive cinematography--ironicall y seals its doom. Mrs. Soffel (rhymes with woeful) is Bonnie and Clyde with the emotional lights turned down, Tristan und Isolde without the saving soaring music...
Andrei Gromyko, the dour and durable Soviet diplomat who has survived 40 years of purges, intrigue and cutthroat competition for power...
Gromyko probably appeared dour and unsmiling in New York because of the old Russian belief that important people should not smile in public...
Unfortunately, the previously published Part I of Mr. Noon positively begs to be dismissed; Lawrence's ability to make a short story long is truly stunning. Gilbert Noon, a dour mathematics teacher in his mid-20s, may or may not have got a local Midlands lass in a family way. The truth, after 90 pages of meandering prose, remains unclear, at which point even the author grows bored with his characters: "Let them go to hell...