Word: passionless
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...done before, and, paradoxically, the story became easier to understand than it had been in the prior acts, when the audience had translations to guide them but no raw emotion to move them. If only more such happy disasters had come along to save this production from its inconsistent, passionless self...
...that her character delivers what should be a frightening message to anyone who sees this film: that not giving a shit is cool. The reality is that Juno isn’t alone in her obnoxious wittiness and is joined by a growing number of youth who seem utterly passionless and anhedonic. Take, for example, a funny yet cautionary article by David Hochman that was recently published in Details Magazine with the title, “Are you Raising a Douchebag?” The subtitle simply read, “Your indulgent parenting is spawning a generation of entitled...
...from the first woman chief of the White House speechwriting office. Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow Chriss A. Winston, President George H. W. Bush’s onetime head speechwriter, took a few dozen undergraduates on a two-hour tutorial about how to “take a colorless, passionless, humorless lump of words and somehow mold that into a speech that has life and lift.” Having a clear core message—“preferably one with news value”—and conducting thorough research are keys to a successful speech, Winston...
...suffrage has “little, if anything” to do with sexuality when arguments both for and against women’s suffrage implicated Victorian images of “womanly virtue,” derived from the notion that women were “passionless,” asexual beings? Conversely, can we really say that “same-sex marriage” is “well understood without discussion of gender issues” when arguments against same-sex marriage constantly invoke gender norms of fatherhood and motherhood (“children need...
...danger of complexity for its own sake as well as the immaturity of adolescent gamers. Again, this critique is nothing new; loftier versions of these accusations have been leveled at Handel and Bach for their own contrapuntal (mis)adventures. These compositions may be seen as pedantic, heavy-handed, passionless or academic. But without the occasional excess of ornamentation, Baroque would never have lived up to its rococo potential, math rock would just be rock, and legions of bored teenagers would never have laid down their controllers for guitars.--Staff writer Will B. Payne can be reached at payne@fas.harvard.edu...