Word: joyful
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...Kath simply smugly insults them - for their clothes, their pop-culture obsessiveness, their eating at Applebee's. It's sneering and unwatchably badly written; it shoots at fish in a barrel and still manages to miss. On NBC's My Name Is Earl, by comparison, Jaime Pressley's Joy may be a moron, but she's an interesting one, with a kind of admirably feral greed. Blair's Kim is just a cartoon idiot. ("It's over!" she declares about her marriage. "O-V-U-R!") If you can't even make your characters believably dumb, you've got problems...
...there will be moments now when Susan will doubt herself, calling out Christopher, are you sure you haven’t seen my shoe?” While Olive’s actions may be shocking, they make the reader admire her for creating a unique way to find joy and amusement from her shear disappointment of losing her son to a woman she neither likes nor trusts. After completing “Olive Kitteridge,” I decided that my fears of living alone are not foolish, but universal. When Olive finds a man recently passed...
...against gay marriage, you can’t deny that Lohan’s name has appeared far less frequently with the word “cocaine” since she started seeing Ronson. Between Perry’s playful experimentation, California’s flamboyant joy, and Lohan’s newfound stability, lesbianism was suddenly the wholesome choice. It was out in the open, the Band-Aid that would hide, if not heal, the pain of a bruising couple of months...
...studies without another thought. Each time I came to CVS, I was struck by how glad the Haitian employees were to see me. The year wore on and our French greetings turned to lengthier French banter, and still I could not understand why our acquaintance should bring them such joy. Then I realized that they were probably homesick. That it was nice to have someone to talk with about familiar things, like plantains, and Creole, and warm weather. My next revelation was that seeing my friends at CVS also brought me joy, and that it was presumably because...
...campaigning for urban renewal and his support of grass-roots community initiatives. And it misses the vital essence of the man - an ability to combine a keen eye and sharp instinct for the big issues of our time with an eye-twinkling liveliness that made him a tremendous joy to be around. I remember a day a few years ago at his home in Stonington, Conn., when, racing his Boston Whaler to a distant beach at a terrifying clip, he had my young daughters shrieking with excitement while simultaneously quizzing me on the possible business models for journalism online...