Word: graciousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
David Chase, creator of HBO's The Sopranos, has sworn up and down that Season 6, the season after this one, will be the show's last. Chase says he doesn't want the show to repeat itself. And the gracious thing would be to start the countdown, admire his artistic integrity and thank him for the memories...
...behalf of those who are greedy and not gracious, let me remind Mr. Chase that he is making a freaking TV show. TV repeats itself--that's what it's for. Bad shows do it badly, and great shows like The Sopranos do it so well that you hardly notice. Every season, New Jersey Mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) outwits his rivals and deceives his family, friends and therapist, all while remaining oblivious to his failings. His marriage to Carmela (Edie Falco) unravels as he chases anything with legs and hair spray and she pursues sad, unconsummated flirtations. Mobsters...
This is a wise strategy if the goal is a diverse career. Hanks, Cruise and ladies' champ Julia Roberts are the gracious wits audiences like to imagine themselves as, but they are also prisoners of their own goodwill, condemned to deliver endless variations on the same performance. Crowe can play anything because he has conditioned audiences to expect anything. He is smart enough to possibly be given credit for premeditating this eremitic media strategy; he is also obstreperous enough simply to hate having his privacy invaded...
Harvard has lost many to warfare over the span of its three centuries, commemorating its war dead in gracious halls and in hallowed public spaces. One by one, names are carved into stone or wood, pulled from the obscurity of War Records files and installed as permanent fixtures on marble plaques and walnut panels...
Piatelli also encouraged members of the school to engage in what he called gracious living by showing respect to all members of the school community...