Word: hangdog
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...pastors face a growing priest shortage. Since Kenneally joined the parish 10 years ago, the number of full-time priests has dropped from four to just one: himself. St. Gertrude's five-year plan identifies one key challenge as "Saving Pastor From Burnout." Kenneally jokes, "Maybe it's my hangdog look." With six different Masses to officiate at each weekend, as well as weddings, baptisms, confessions and funerals, Kenneally must delegate. But to whom...
...does Edward Fox's portrayal of Jacques: he wanders the set with a listless, patrician air, jowls drooping, mewling and puking depressing reflections from that hangdog aristocratic face of his. But Edzard relies most heavily on the central romantic couple, Orlando (Andrew Tiernan) and Rosalind (Emma Croft) to set the tone. Rosalind, disguised as a boy, meets Orlando pining for her love. Befriending him under her false indentity, she forces Orlando to court her as if she were Rosalind. The pair play this twisted charade as an agonizing process, reducing both of them to emotional ground beef. Here they...
...University of Arkansas Law School and had a student complain of her demands: "What do you expect of me? I'm only from Arkansas." She did not realize that he might have been guying this traveler into Arkansas, in the defensive old form of mockery; but even this hangdog defiance of the outer world masked an uneasiness about the state's reputation. Journalists covering Clinton in Little Rock are constantly asked by a suspicious citizenry, "What have you heard about us up there?" % The state took a long time to recover after it sent its prized leader Jeff Davis...
...astonishment of its citizens, who have maintained a hangdog pride in being off the beaten path, Fresno has become one of the fastest-growing major cities in America. In Fresno people had always felt that they were in California but not of it -- a little bit of Iowa under the palm trees. Now their sleepy farm town is growing nearly as fast as crops planted in the dull, rich land of the surrounding San Joaquin Valley...
...renationalize all the companies that have been sold off to private shareholders or to take back the formerly state-owned houses that have been sold to their tenants. Even those put off by the glitz and the greed of Thatcherworld wouldn't really like to return to the gloomy, hangdog "British disease" atmosphere of the postwar period...