Word: shallowing
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...troublesome doctrine of sin. Mainstream clergy are disturbed by Schuller's zealous push for conversion and his carnival-barker style. "His success-oriented message," says Congregationalist Browne Barr, former dean of the San Francisco Presbyterian Seminary, "is a happy optimism; it sells nicely, but it is just very shallow...
...would have hoped that Theroux would bring the descriptive skills he has demonstrated in books such as The Patagonia Express or The Great Railway Bazaar to this new work of fiction. Unfortunately, because of its insipid plots and shallow characters, Half Moon Street will likely not enjoy the same wide readership Theroux's previous books have...
Rothchild's pithy style allows him to cover a lot of landfill in a hurry. If his roots seem shallow, it is because he finds no place to sink them deeper. "Florida is spiritually unclaimed," he writes. "There is no harmonic abstraction, no stereotype such as the cowboy, the Yankee trader, the trapper, the woodsman, the planter--no hero of history around which the population can rally." Rothchild feels most at home on the highway, caught between a senior citizen driving his Oldsmobile at 10 m.p.h. and a teenager in a Mercedes closing in from behind...
...choreography proceeds pretty much from left to right too. This ballet looks somewhat shallow; it does not try to fill the stage in a proper Petipa way. In most other respects it is very much in the classical style. For one thing, it takes very seriously the imperial role of its ballerina, Martine van Hamel. In the past few years Baryshnikov has invited several innovative choreographers to work for A.B.T., and not all have been successful. With her pure, ample style, Van Hamel has been much in demand and as a result has soldiered her way across some very murky...
...Soviet news agency TASS said the missile went off course after it was launched during an exercise in the Barents Sea, "and disappeared in a westerly direction." The apologetic tone contrasted sharply with the Soviet reaction following similar events. When, for example, a Soviet submarine was detected in shallow waters near a Swedish naval base in 1981, Moscow denied that Swedish waters had been violated, and it accused the Swedes of trying to create an anti-Soviet atmosphere. As for the misguided missile, as this week began it was still missing in the wintry gloom of northern Finland...