Word: languorous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kozelek and Co. delivered a poignant two-hour, 11-song set that no individual album of theirs, nor any combination thereof, could equal in execution, creativity, or emotional dynamism. Patiently sinking from languor into chaos, from clean, spring notes to cyclones of distortion and pounding drums, the band revised and reinterpreted each song that they played, including a muscular Cowboy Junkies cover and an ad-libbed "White Christmas." Most notable were their plugged, spine-tingling rendition of "Evil," the freshly-penned and exuberant "New Song About a New Girl," and their closing ditty, the ever-arrogant and melancholy "Mistress" (sans...
...light of the day, the people of East Moriches, New York, look up from the decks of their boats and houses and see a 747 flare, break apart and go down in the sea. In a second or two, a typically dank Long Island South Shore night goes from languor to amazement to horror. Private vessels are first to rush toward the site through the Moriches Inlet, which opens to the ocean. Zodiacs from the Coast Guard station follow. Cutters come soon after. Emergency vehicles make a long, undulating necklace of light on the roads leading to town...
...however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle...
...however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," hopeless," nonsense" on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle...
...realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grades" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements...