Word: mope
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Dawdle and Mope. Away from the hunt, they also stand and wait. And wait. The novel contains enough pregnant pauses to fuel a year of TV soaps: "considerable," "sizable," "baffled," "stupefied" waits. But then, there seems to be no reason to hurry. Tended by a small army of admiring blacks, the Mayfields and Kendals have nothing much to do except dawdle and mope. "I am 55 years old this month," says Forrest at one point. "Never say 'Time flies'; it has seemed like forever...
Connors may not mope much longer. "I think I've found the right girl," he says. "When things are right?which may be soon?we'll settle down." After calling off their nationally ballyhooed engagement last fall, Connors and Evert decided not to talk to each other for four months. "We needed to find out if we really wanted to be with each other," says Jimmy. "I wasn't very happy, and she wasn't very happy. Since we got back together, we're working things out a lot better. I guess we're much more honest." Chris seems...
...mope: get away from...
...writer of this review, a Little Big Man fanatic, has never been able to feel anything more positive than impatience for Berger's interminable Reinhardt trilogy, a thousand-page mope about the flounderings of a fat loser. The impatience is not a bit dispelled by Regiment of Women. Berger's latest book is either a grossly awkward takeoff on the excesses of Women's Lib or a blundering satire about the way men treat women. The fact that a careful observer cannot decide which is one indication of what is wrong with the kind of novel Berger...
...nobody talks about the war much, because it's depressing and boring and, well, the war was last year. Or the year before. And because we have to go on with our God-awful lives. You can't just sit around and mope, you know. What is this self-righteousness? Get on with your life and try to make your corner of the world a little better. Through poetry in the Advocate, or wit in the Lampoon, or good works at PBH, or scholarly works on German philosophers, or research in Mallinckrodt or the Hoffman Lab, or research on underdeveloped...