Word: grimness
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...should we perhaps say agenda driven? The same criticisms might apply to the fact that both these fictional characters (and, it is hinted, Woolf herself) find what consolation they can in a rather dispassionate lesbianism. This ultimately proves insufficient to lend meaning to their lives or profundity to a grim and uninvolving film, for which Philip Glass unwittingly provides the perfect score--tuneless, oppressive, droning, painfully self-important...
...species that doesn't reach sexual maturity until at least four years of age. But cod can be harvested from the age of one, which leaves fewer and fewer fish of reproductive age. Whenever collapsing cod stocks are mentioned, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland are held up as a grim example of what can happen if things are left until too late. Canadian scientists watched stocks dwindle through the late 1980s, but failed to persuade the government to act. So when fishing was finally banned in 1992, the fishery stood at 1% to 3% of its historic levels. Even today...
...irony of Twain's reluctance to write personal, revealing songs is that her history is filled with examples of courage. If Loretta Lynn and Charles Dickens met while under contract to the Lifetime network, they might come up with the grim frontier tale that is Twain's youth. She grew up in Timmins, Ont., a mining town in the heart of the Canadian bush. Her father ran off when she was 2. Her mother Sharon and her adoptive father Jerry Twain, a full-blooded Ojibwa Indian, continually struggled for work. The five Twain children considered themselves lucky to find...
...Georgian was just as disgusted: "Your snide attempt to convey that Bush was gloating was below the loosest journalistic standards. Unbelievable!" But an Arizonan thought the picture could be put to practical use: "Democratic members of Congress should pin the cover to their office wall as a grim reminder of what should never happen again...
...grim. While retaining a Palestinian at the border and checking his ID, Heilman exchanged friendly conversation with the man, discussing politics and joking in Arabic. He even gave him his fleece to keep warm. These kinds of interactions don’t make it on television, Heilman says. “You don’t really see human beings that much [on the news],” he says...