Word: groaning
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When I was a freshman, nothing bothered me more than seniors who would moan and groan about the difficulties they faced deciding what to do after graduation. (Actually, one thing was more irksome: seniors who started tedious and patronizing anecdotes with the phrase, “When I was a freshman.”) How anyone could complain about a future that included cable television and never again having to eat off dining hall trays totally baffled me. Now, of course, the future seems rather more daunting...
When I was a freshman, nothing bothered me more than seniors who would moan and groan about the difficulties they faced deciding what to do after graduation. (Actually, one thing was more irksome: seniors who started tedious and patronizing anecdotes with the phrase, “When I was a freshman.”) How anyone could complain about a future that included cable television and never again having to eat off dining hall trays totally baffled me. Now, of course, the future seems rather more daunting...
...September, as expected. Their tour had been extended by two or three months, at the least. 3rd ID commander Major General Buford Blount had already emailed their families the bad news, blaming "uncertainty of the situation in Iraq and the recent increase in attacks on coalition forces." The groan was palpable, with the soldiers and their families telling reporters - sometimes in terms distinctly unflattering to the Pentagon - that it was time for the unit that had suffered the most casualties in the war to go home...
...That's a bit much for Hitchens, who prefers to say that Orwell "took some of the supposedly Christian virtues and showed how they could be 'lived' without piety or religious belief." One virtue Orwell did not possess was an ear for good fiction. His early novels creak and groan with messages about the evils of imperialism, capitalism or middle-class respectability. Even Animal Farm and 1984 are memorable more for the power of their ideas than the gracefulness of their prose. Indeed, there are probably dozens of 20th century writers who took on Orwell's causes in that tumultuous...
...here, but ultimately all the a capella jams and orchestra concerts they put on are little more than glorified talent shows. We know they’re good, but few know when (or if) they make a mistake. And when they do, hundreds of people don’t groan in disappointment, and those rooting for them to fail don’t cheer with glee...