Word: grimness
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...House of Representatives, to Labor's 56, and possible control of the Senate. The collapse was rapid. At 7:45 p.m. - even before Mark Latham's election-night function in outer-western Sydney had warmed up - Labor shadow immigration minister Stephen Smith was admitting the outlook was "Grim, with a capital G, Trouble, with a capital T." Confident right up to the close of polls, morose Labor supporters watched a fourth election slip away. Just two hours later, Latham conceded in a brief and despondent speech. "Tonight was not our night, not the night we were hoping for," he said...
...gives him pause. For example, the opening, titular chapter features Neufeld and his girlfriend, Sari, arriving in Bangkok after a miserable flight. While puttering around, feeling vaguely disconcerted, they stumble upon a Buddhist temple. Here, at last, they find a welcoming but totally foreign culture where "religion wasn't grim or judgmental, like my impressions growing up," as Neufeld notes. Suddenly relaxed, Neufeld opens up to the serendipitous nature of travel and feels content. Other adventures include the exploration of a vast cave, where he faces his mortality, and his appearance as an extra on the "New York...
John Kerry accepts the grim facts about Iraq, but he also has real solutions to turn the situation around. As Kerry said in his speech last week in Philadelphia, “just because [President Bush] can’t do it, doesn’t mean it can’t be done.” John Kerry has the experience and judgment to fix the mess in Iraq and restore respect for America in the world. John Kerry, despite the claims of the Bush propaganda machine, has not been wobbly on the war. He voted to give...
...while it's realistic to have the Sims grow old and die, as they now do, that's no fun either. But maybe that's the idea: in The Sims 2, you can live out your wildest fantasies, but you still have to pay the bills--and meet the Grim Reaper...
Though the title sounds grim it actually refers to the stars of the series, cousins Fone Bone, Smiley Bone and Phoney Bone, who couldn't be less threatening. Like the Hobbits, the Bones are a peculiar-looking, diminutive race. They are pure cartoon - cute and pantsless, with four fingers on each hand and smooth, rounded, sexless bodies. At first their personalities are similarly simple. Fone, the dreamy one, must constantly get out of the scrapes created by Phoney, the avaricious schemer, and Smiley, a goofball comic foil whose tongue hangs out like a friendly dog's. Over the book...