Word: dross
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...real cause for celebration is that he alchemizes the dross of the script into a character with a palpable physicality and inner life. Behind the bulk of his hulk, a man's dogged decency is on display, and so, briefly, is Rourke's fallen-angel smile. In the scene that could cinch his Oscar nomination, he gets a long close-up as Randy pours out his clumsy love for his daughter. The speech is boilerplate sentiment, which the actor - who says he reworked it to reflect his own life - elevates to a passion as sweet as it is forlorn...
...real cause for celebration is that he alchemizes the dross of the script into a character with a palpable physicality and inner life. Behind the bulk of his hulk, a man's dogged decency is on display, and so, briefly, is Rourke's fallen-angel smile. In the scene that could cinch his Oscar nomination, he gets a long closeup as Randy pours out his clumsy love for his daughter. The speech is boilerplate sentiment, which the actor elevates to a passion as sweet as it is forlorn. If Rourke had to punish himself to look the part...
...always the case in journalism, when he was against the gun, editors had two choices: run what Thompson wrote, however nutty it was, or spike it. But he was a name by then, and his audience was usually entranced enough by the insights he offered to accept all the dross that accompanied them. More important, he began to seem like a symbolic figure of the moment - the victim-saint fighting back against the clueless and often vicious Establishment. Richard Nixon had the capacity to do that to his distinctly disloyal opponents...
...there is no bottom to the barrel of radio’s lurid modern history; purveyors of still more odious dross regularly garner more success than Mr. Imus. Take the example of his longtime rival and colleague Howard Stern, who inked a 500 million dollar contract with Sirius Radio for five years of gallivanting with porn stars and teasing a handicapped man he calls “Gary the Retard.” Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh made his name when he referred to the NFL as “the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons...
...legitimized only as a day to get off because it’s a nice day to go fishing. For this reason, Trout Day will forever be the grandest holiday of them all. It’s a day to put aside our attempts to gather the most dross or to write the Great Novel that will forever only be Sparknoted and tackle more meaningful pursuits, like fishing...