Word: killjoy
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...ditties instead of trying to dazzle the customers with languorous Latin rhythms. But out of a pleasantly unexciting score emerges one fetching, early-Porterish tune, I Love You. The dancing, too, is Main Stem rather than Mexican-fast routines and catchy specialties. The sets are vivid, the costumes showy. Killjoy on the hayride is the book, which for a while is a worse threat than...
What annoys him most appears to be what he calls my "almost moronic cheerfulness." This seems to me a classic phrase and I will do what I can to immortalize it. All my long writing life I have been called a killjoy, a sorehead, a Jeremiah, a muckraker, a common scold, a public nuisance-all the names you could think of; and now, having achieved serenity in my 60's, I am "almost moronic." Let me point out to your reviewer that the case is not entirely unique. Emerson managed to keep cheerful through the tragedy of the Civil...
...Cadet out," scoffed Huey, "you're Rooney Maupin about like a killjoy. Put that drink Downing the Hatch, and don't spill it on your Frontezak. You Cantabs your mind made up. Huey says Harvard 7, Army...
...neuroses, in Vienna in 1896, his worldly colleagues regarded him with the embarrassed annoyance reserved for those who hammer away at something people would rather not talk about, even if talking would teach them something. But for laymen, as Freud's theories spread, he emerged as the greatest killjoy in the history of human thought, transforming man's jokes and gentle pleasures into dreary and mysterious repressions, discovering hatreds at the root of love, malice at the heart of tenderness, incest in filial affections, guilt in generosity and the repressed hatred of one's father...
According to one instructor, there is no excuse for a student not finding one of these amoeba now, because if one should drop on the floor one might slip on it. Biologists under the old plan, typically killjoy, have been heard to say, "Sissy stuff...