Word: shrill
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...pattern of Red Brigades kidnapings has been to draw out the agonized suspense for governments and the families of victims, often issuing two or three shrill polemical communiques be-:ore setting ransom. One possible demand in the Dozier case: scrapping a plan to install 112 nuclear-tipped American cruise missiles in southern Sicily...
...conference started with shrill accusations that the Administration had "rigged" committee assignments to affirm President Reagan's views. Worried about the growing backlash against the White House, President Reagan made an unscheduled appearance to dispel doubts that he was "somehow an enemy of my own generation." The conclave ended Thursday with shouts of protest as 2,266 delegates were compelled to approve or reject a package of 600 often contradictory resolutions with a single yes or no vote...
Despite these and other sharp performances by Gene Hackman, Gerald Hiken and Jack Kehoe, Reds is essentially the story of Jack and Louise. Diane Keaton's performance shows a species of heroism: unafraid to seem shrill or pouty, she allows Louise's strength to emerge through her decisions to follow Jack and fight him, to walk out of his life and fight to get back in, to be his and still be herself. Beatty, the master charmer, uses a torrent of words and his sweet-faced stare to persuade us that have Jack and his brand of robust...
...play is occasionally shrill and familiar; and the ending, in which the protagonist cries "Give me a chance to find some intrinsic value" and is whisked away by a deux ex machina, lacks the delicacy of the play's best moments. But at least it points to a kind of theatre beyond the blank, muddy "reality" that the rest of these plays have a foot in. Mark Milliken has staged Fits and Starts with merry rambunctiousness, and the piece is fetchingly danced by Julia Newton, an utterly charming waif. Annette Miller and John Adair, though, as mother and dog respectively...
...attack on Beirut, in which about 300 were killed. It would be unreasonable to expect official contrition. But Israel in the past has managed to convey more sorrow than anger when it wielded its terrible swift sword. Now there seems to be only anger, and it is too often shrill, self-righteous and even a bit frightening-more so to those who love Israel than to those who hate...