Word: loath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many suffer greatly, growing to loath their topics, their advisers and most of all, their deadlines. Others bubble enthusiastically, sure that their thesis is the best experience of their lives...
When Gomes moves on to such universal issues as suffering, joy and science, some topics are slighted: the section on evil seems loath to admit the traditional concept of Satan, even in order to challenge it. More typical, however, is a cheerily trenchant meditation on wealth ("not a sin, but it is a problem.") Fundamentalists will have little use for this book, but its target audience just may be charmed back into the pews...
Levin has been in love with cable for decades and is loath to give it up, but he is under pressure from his board of directors to do so. "Cable is the key issue--it's the only issue," says a source close to the board. In Levin's thinking, by marrying content, such as films and television, with distribution--networks and cable systems--Time Warner will always have an outlet for its products. The Turner deal is an extension of that thinking...
...just as HAND members have been loath to confront the administration, they also have shied away from offending PBHA...
...actions are thoroughly loath-some--particularly torturous is one scene where he reluctantly meets his phone pal in person--but he hates himself for doing it all. He's not a malicious or perverted person (he takes a train to Amelia's and Laura's country house when they start receiving obscene phone calls), but merely weak, still treating his discomfort with his Alzheimer's-afflicted father with teenagerly stubbornness...