Word: shrilled
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...makes critics like me go shrill with condemnation. For movie distributors, January is garage-sale, or garbage-sale, time; reviewers' critical expectations are lower than usual. We're indulgent toward junk that deserves to go direct to DVD. We want to save our fulminations for later in the year, and unleash them on failed films with bigger budgets and higher ambitions. But Untraceable really is disgraceable. It's bad enough when a movie offers up atrocity scenes that would make the Nanking soldiers seem like Hannah Montana; it's repellent when the movie dresses up the sadism in a moral...
...discussed Russian TV's positive though shrill initial reactions to TIME's announcement, I realized that Putin was not all that far from the truth when he told the magazine's editors at the Person of the Year interview that Russian TV, however state-controlled, was free. Most commentators freely hailed Putin's achievment of putting Russia back on the world map and just as freely pruned TIME's analysis of what happened on his road to achieving it: the suppression of democratic freedoms...
Occasionally jumbled blocking diluted the humor of asides that were meant for the audience, but were difficult to distinguish from communication between the characters. Some of these inconsistencies, coupled with some actors’ tendency to overact, made the first part of the play abrasive and shrill...
...There are, Faraway Tree aside, two cases in which awareness campaigns are neither useless nor self-interested. For underreported incidents like rape, campaigns are a reasonable method to spur more reporting. Events like Take Back the Night, however smug or shrill, may in fact be serving a useful purpose. For crucial public health measures too—the shortage of Asian bone marrow donors comes to mind—such campaigns might also be helpful...
...shrill reaction to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's request to visit Ground Zero is playing right into the Iranian President's hands. He faces growing unpopularity at home, thanks to a dire economy and mounting religious and cultural repression. But his power base is made up mainly of Iranians who participated in the 1979 revolution, among whom the loathing of the U.S. runs very deep. Nothing energizes them more than the sight of their leader being excoriated by the hated Americans...