Word: loath
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...psych explanation is that this comes from his youth. A child of divorce, Hanks moved constantly as a boy. But he seems loath to talk about his personal motivations, and when I suggest this Hanks-as-Odysseus thesis, he responds--in the most generous, droll, affable, Hanksian way--that I'm full of crap. "They each have their voyages, but I guess I don't see that [similarity]. The danger of getting home was inherent in Jim Lovell's choice to go to the moon. I guess Captain Miller [fits], but I don't think he ever thought...
Despite this very real threat during the teen years, many families are loath to discuss the topic with their kids. "There's this notion about depression, and certainly about suicide, that if you ask or mention the subject, you're going to make it happen," says Jamison. Quite the contrary, she says; talking with a son or daughter about dark feelings will help assuage the sense of hopelessness the child may have...
...women of the Seneca feel that few social options exist outside of the realm of final clubs, they say they are also loath to cut their ties to the clubs...
...decades, 11,200-year-old stone spear points from a site in Clovis, N.M., have been held to be the earliest evidence of settlement in the hemisphere--and many archaeologists have been loath to give up this "Clovis first" model. But since the 1970s, it has been challenged by the discovery of still older sites on both sides of the continent, most notably a 17,000-year-old rock shelter in Meadowcroft...
Though they would be loath to admit it, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani have quite a bit in common. And it's the ground they share, rather than the issues that divide them, that will make their race for the U.S. Senate seat from New York one of the year's most closely watched campaigns - and one of the most difficult to manage. (Clinton made her formal declaration Sunday; Giuliani has yet to officially announce...