Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...With both captains hurt, I didn’t have to say anything,” the coach explained. “He just took charge...
...Vaillancourt has had an outstanding season, but I think being on a team with a surplus of offensive weapons will hurt her chances. Because so many of Harvard’s forwards can score, she’s not the go-to option as much as she might be on a less experienced team...
...Fabrications that hurt someone’s reputation are technically actionable—the victim could sue for defamation,” he said. “But again, that’s an awfully cumbersome process and possibly Pyrrhic victory that may not do much to ameliorate the original harm...
...Vantage Point is a wan title for such a bustling movie. (Since it's William Hurt in the terrorists' gun sights, it could be called Kill Bill.) But if it hints at the title of a famous 1970 car chase movie, Vanishing Point, that makes sense, since the new film argues that terrorists can be tracked down not by super-sleuthing or political back-channeling, but because of the fanatically assured driving skills of a lone government agent. The film also has echoes of a few other cluttered frescoes that play out in a limited time-frame: Vantage Point, reduced...
...Travis has borrowed some of the jittery camerabatics that Greengrass applied as director to of United 93and the last two episodes of the Jason Bourne saga. You can easily spot Travis's attempt at docudrama bona fides from the gritty cinematography. All the 50-plus mid-level stars - Quaid, Hurt, Weaver, Bruce McGill - are shot (I mean photographed) so unflatteringly that they look weary, lined, older than John McCain on one of his recent bad days...