Word: shrill
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...English is often unintelligible; Lee, who plays the hero's intellectual friend, can't pronounce the word intellectual; and Diaz is forced to utter the most off-putting line in recent movies (let's just say it includes the word swallowed). The poor dear plays a character so shrill and needy that it makes Diaz almost not fantastically attractive...
...weeks ago Pakistani journalist and Bin Laden biographer Hamid Mir made headlines by publishing an interview with Bin Laden conducted at a secret location inside Afghanistan, in which the Saudi claimed to have nuclear weapons. Mir noted in passing that the bin Laden he met sounded more aggressive, even shrill than the soft-spoken terrorist he'd interviewed on a number of previous occasions. The Al Hayat claims about bin Laden doubles cast Mir's observation in a new light, at least for the conspiratorially minded...
...generate a kind of dignity, a classy presence that lends the opening stages of the film some elegance. DeVito clashes with this atmosphere and ruins it. He plays a major role in the ending, when the film takes a sudden and unwelcome turn for the brutal. His strident, shrill presence does nothing to make the film more watchable. Mamet clearly intended this to be an edge-of-your-seat thriller that keeps you guessing. But he piled on about three plot twists too many, and when he does get to something of a surprise conclusion, everybody has stopped caring...
Until they do, one can’t help but wonder if the shrill pitch of the ROTC debate has less to do with anti-gay bias than with the fact that homosexuals happen to be one of the groups deemed sacrosanct by the priests of the sensitivity cult. If so, then ROTC is simply one more sacrificial lamb immolated on the altar of political correctness...
...mixed message: For the first two weeks after the attacks, the public heard assurances from John Ashcroft and other officials, telling us everything was under control and we had nothing to worry about. Then, about two weeks ago, the warnings became more shrill. What?s the public supposed to think...