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Word: downcast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Here it's the other way around. I'm not depressed or downcast, and I have things I can do that I consider productive, like working on getting out this book. And yet the knowledge that I'm locked up here and likely to remain so for the rest of my life--it ruins it. And I don't want to live long. I would rather get the death penalty than spend the rest of my life in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Don't Want To Live Long: Ted Kaczynski | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

Still, there are especially memorable cast moments. corresponding to high points in song. A unanimous scene-stealer is Donna/Oolie's (Jessica Jackson '99) reluctantly downcast yet spitfire rendition of "You Can Always Count on Me," a powerful member that tops a overall winning performance as the ill-used secretary, Bobbie (Sarah Gurfield)could make cement dissolve with her smoky "WithEvery Breath I Take." And when the MalloryKingsley (Sara Yellen '00) which Stone has beentold to turn in, turns up in his bed with aturn-on song--oh my. So much for objectifiedfemales...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hardboiled 'Angels' is Delicious | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...answer to the question, could be found there. The look on their face is intent, as if they had just written an essay on that very question and if only they could find it buried deep in their cavernous backpack, they could address the issue. Their eyes remain downcast, praying that someone, probably Johnny, will say something and let them off the hook...

Author: By Daniel W. Hamilton, | Title: A Teaching-Fellow Tells All | 5/6/1998 | See Source »

...since Monica One. Kathleen Willey's story of Clinton's groping her near the Oval Office was widely known, so the fear was not a matter of new details emerging in her 60 Minutes interview. The fear was of flesh and blood, a soft voice, a string of pearls, downcast eyes, violated modesty, the image of a loyal Democrat who when she was in trouble came one November day to the Oval Office seeking help and wound up with a hands-on briefing. Willey's performance was compelling and dangerous: she didn't fit the profile of a Clinton hater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outrageous Fortune | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

What are the eyes of a child soldier supposed to look like? Felfiel Manhica's are downcast and blank in a face that rarely smiles. He is 22 now, still undersize and boyish, but he was just 13 when rebel Renamo soldiers crept into the hamlet of Taninga before dawn in 1988 to steal food and took him too. They threatened to execute him, armed him with an AK-47 assault rifle and turned him into a pitiless killing machine aimed at his family, friends and neighbors on the government side of Mozambique's civil war. "They told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa Rising | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

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