Word: romanticized
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Luckily, readers can ignore the rehashed ideology in favor of the thoroughly enjoyable memoir embedded in the book. With his endearing, well-written anecdotes of romantic bumbling and freshman foibles, Douthat produces a fun little gem of narcissism, a pleasant indulgence for author and reader alike.
Ultimately, Douthat never emerges as a particularly funny narrator, nor an especially dynamic one. His tales of romantic travails and adolescent awkwardness are accessible, but never unique. The claims of complacence among the privileged are nothing new. We’re left with tired arguments and wistful nostalgia.
Ideal Significant Other: Shes like the Sun Shining Bright/ My Romantic moonlight/ My rainbow after the rain/She’s the joy after the pain/She’s my lover she’s my own/ She’s the strength when I’m not...
What's perhaps most striking about Downfall is how profoundly everyone in the bunker loves death. Hitler, naturally, thinks the Germans have betrayed him and is willing to let them all die in a great Götterdämmerung while he passes out poison capsules to his circle. This leads to...
This is not When Harry Met Sally, but Hitch does perform one of that film’s most astonishing tricks: Hitch believably turns Kevin James into a romantic lead worthy of Amber Valletta. If nothing else, the film is inspiring for all those goofy, awkward, smart Harvard men with...