Word: mournful
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...armor—which is inexplicably and awkwardly worn by an orange elephant—traverse bizarre landscapes replete with lions, tigers, and—wait for it—bears. The youthful simplicity of the video belies the moving-on maturity of the lyrics, which mourn a failed relationship and lament: “And I don’t want to make a wake out of my life / I’ve just got to let you go.” In their video, directors Kirby McClure and Julia Grigorian emulate the production philosophy...
...have always taken themselves and their contests more seriously than their electorates ever do. Among the public, the competent delivery of public services - clean hospitals, trains that run on time - will trump windy political battles anytime. Yet it isn't only political journalists who might be allowed to mourn the passing of Europe's old political style. In the past, Europe's politics were sufficiently technicolor that they threw up leaders who dreamed big dreams: Margaret Thatcher, determined to reverse Britain's long and complacent slide into a grimy irrelevancy; Helmut Kohl, with his passion to reunify Germany; Jacques Delors...
...Like thousands of others, I lost my home, all my belongings and my job in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. While I am extremely grateful to family, friends and strangers who have welcomed me and my granddaughter to a new life in the Southwest, I mourn my life in New Orleans. When I returned a few weekends ago to see whether I could salvage anything from home, I spent some time in the French Quarter, where I used to teach. As I walked by the Little Red Schoolhouse, I looked in the window of my classroom and could...
...lost my home, all my belongings and my teaching job in New Orleans after Katrina. While I am extremely grateful to those who have welcomed me to a new life in the Southwest, I mourn the loss of my old life. When I returned briefly a few weekends ago, I walked by the Little Red Schoolhouse in the French Quarter; I looked in the window of my classroom and could see my students' unfinished work inside. That is how I feel about our lives in New Orleans: so much is left unfinished. Let us all hope that America steps...
...much about Franco: only 3% of the country's political representatives are over 64, and Zapatero himself is just 45. "We are the first generation to approach the past without fear or trauma," Aguilar says. Elderly Francoists still turn out on the anniversary of the dictator's death to mourn the passing of authoritarian Spain, while young and old members of the Falange - the far-right party that supported Franco - meet regularly to hear speakers disparage socialists, freemasons and Jews. But it's not just extremists who feel nostalgic for Franco. "Spain's view of the Franco regime is ambivalent...