Word: humors
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...magic trick is Hill's, and the transformation he works on his main character. Coyne begins the book as a cold, despicable misanthrope, but as we learn about the personal past that made him that way - he had an abusive father - we gain sympathy for him. Coyne changes, gaining humor in desperation, warming to the girlfriend he took for granted, and reconnecting with the music that he has all but abandoned. When confronted with real inhumanity, as opposed to his own affected coldness, Coyne softens unexpectedly, and his emotions wake up. We start to like him and sympathize with...
...from his neck. “There are a lot of levels to what’s happening all the time on the show,” Koechner said in a conference call last week. Beneath the show’s red-state surface lies genuine satire and intellectual humor. The pair will often reference literary and academic figures, from Chaucer to Chomsky. “A lot of the people in the press are missing those elements, calling it a redneck adventure,” said Koechner, who viewers might recognize from his appearances in the film...
...This production of “The Marriage of Figaro” is accessible to everyone. First of all, the opera is sung entirely in English. I’ve also tried to express my own humor and sense of fun in the staging of the opera. The result has been some unorthodox, but all the more entertaining, characters...
...point that a fully equal and integrated Islam in secular European societies can't expect to enjoy a deference not accorded to Christianity or Judaism. "The Pope is satirized, the Church is satirized, Christians are satirized and so are Jews - all in a well-established tradition of commentary and humor," declared Reporters Without Borders general secretary Robert M?nard outside of the court as it opened Wednesday. "Muslims have to get used to the same treatment - and in reality, most have...
...Virtually no one disputes the utter vapidity and still-born humor of the Danish caricatures at the center of the case - and which French daily Lib?ration ran again as the trial opened Wednesday. Initially, as the fury over the caricatures grew, the magazine published another cartoon depicting the Prophet lamenting of the hue and cry, "It's hard being loved by a**holes." But now that the matter is in court, Charlie Hebdo's editors are dropping their cavalier sarcasm and instead cast themselves as the last bastion of free speech...