Word: pleasanter
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...explain why God allows war (to prevent overpopulation from causing traffic jams). The show has its moments of humor and pathos, but the sustained tone is a discordant one that, while it does bring the feeling of being in a war zone, is not always pleasant to endure...
...parents to vote against Bush. An ad in a local paper in the northwestern tip of New Mexico sought young women 16 to 28 who could "do a dance number and represent American diversity" at Republican events. Applicants, it warned, "must be able to smile and stay pleasant for long hours...
...disc could have easily been a lighter and more pleasant affair had the band not taken such a deeply self-serious attitude. Somewhere in between listing their songs alphabetically rather than in track order on the front cover and recording with the Slovak Radio Orchestra, they forgot to endow their music with any sign of levity or vivacity. The end result is a 53-minute lull, as sleep-inducing and unpalatable as warm milk...
...past R.E.M guitar lines, and Michael Stipe’s vocals sound disinterested and rangeless. “The Worst Joke Ever” might have been a fine song on Out of Time, but by this point in R.E.M.’s career, playing these same mildly-pleasant melodies is nothing short of redundant. The single “Leaving New York” paints a sepulchral image with a sweeping chorus that uses Stipe’s vocals to the fullest. It, alongside the oppressively peppy “Electron Blue,” which comes...
...asked him what was the most important thing he had learned as President during the past four years. Bush responded, "I've learned I really enjoy the job." That is surprising, because it is a very hard job, and he has been doing things that are not pleasant - waging war, for instance. It's curious if Bush is actually saying he enjoys making war. Certainly John Kerry would not relish it. Maybe that's because Kerry has been in combat, while Bush makes war only from the remove of the presidency. To make people forget that he didn...