Word: mutterances
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...Perhaps after the clamor, reflection will slowly take root. Perhaps we'll just distract ourselves with the teary family stories and the umpteenth capital-punishment pro-and-cons. Or switch off Katie, put a CD on the car stereo instead of the news. And either way, mutter afterward about how the parade of talking heads trivialized a moment of national gravity, made it into another meaningless parade, another Survivor finale - how this most intimate and public of moments was stripped of its chilling meaning. Yes, yes. And isn't that exactly what we will have wanted...
...first third-generation mobile phone network, allowing users to surf the Internet and download video clips while on the move. Yet the Fairy Bridge, on the highway south of Douglas, the capital, didn't get its name for nothing. Here the locals lift a hand ever so slightly and mutter "Hello, little people," to propitiate the fairies underneath. Transparency, lower tax rates and G3 phones may help, but when it comes to preserving their hard-won prosperity, the Manx aren't taking any chances...
...competition is civilized, sanitized and oddly quiet. We mutter to our friends about how so-and-so doesn’t deserve that job, office or girlfriend, when the same prize has been denied to us. We sit in coffee shops and carp about how everyone else has a summer job, or won a fellowship, and how terribly unfair...
...flamethrowers, the medieval torture devices, and the phallic stage props, and what remains of Rammstein? A pretty good industrial band, apparently. While the German sextet’s U.S. debut (1998’s Sehnsucht) was a full-throttle fusion of electronic sounds and speed-metal riffs, Mutter is clearly the work of a leaner and smarter group. As usual, the key is Rammstein’s oh-so-Teutonic precision...
...even counting to 10, as he does at the beginning of “Sonne,” carries a certain menace), while Richard Kruspe and Paul Landers’ drive home guitar riffs sharp enough to put Limp Bizkit et al. to shame. But what sets Mutter apart is the group’s newfound attention to dynamics and detail—often, as on the anthemic “Ich Will,” brief ambient soundscapes make the whole track greater than the sum of its parts. The same can especially be said...