Word: patheticism
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The book is magnificent for its graceful, waltzing prose, its palimpsestic plot, and its egotistic but endearingly pathetic characters. And for affluent Ivy-League sophisticates, Messud’s novel can be a masochistic joy, holding the mirror up to our sometimes vain, vapid, inchoately ambitious selves.
The Game “Doctor’s Advocate” (Geffen) 3 Stars A year and a half after “The Documentary,” his overhyped-but-solid 2005 debut, The Game has returned, sans G-Unit and Dr. Dre, with “The...
Fiction--who needs it? Not when reallife is so gripping, so bizarre, so very real. TV went the reality route long ago; now movie audiences are finding that Superman is no match for Grizzly Man. Some gifted directors (Martin Scorsese, Michael Apted, Werner Herzog) commute easily between fiction films...
It does. Actually, I have a bit of sympathy for the court on what to call gay relationships. I was never certain what to call my boyfriend of eight years - ick, ?boyfriend.? I?m 35, not 15. But ?partner? sounds clinical, ?lover? sounds too ?70s and ?longtime companion? sounds pathetic...
I'm sitting in a courtoom with 249 other wannabe Americans, waiting to be declared an American, to put my hand in the air and say I am cured of my love for my pathetic excuse of a former nation and love America best of all. (For me, it's...