Word: shrilled
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...that those with intelligence and problem-solving ability have a high EQ. The growing disdain for test scores is a dangerous trend. Is crying at the end of Forrest Gump more valuable to society than knowing when World War I occurred? Arguments based on emotion have resulted in the shrill and hysterical nature of discourse in the U.S. JOE HARDY Memphis, Tennessee...
...supremacists in Betrayed, but cogent drama in neither. His favorite plot hook, sexual mutilation, bore rancid fruit in Jagged Edge, Basic Instinct and Sliver. At least those three had some sick kick to them. But if his women characters aren't psychos or sex-crime victims, the scripts get shrill and turgid. After an hour of naughty chat in Showgirls, you'll start hoping for somebody to kill somebody...
...with suspicion and unproductive opposition. She states, "I can imagine how difficult it's going to be for my group, for instance, when we're applying for council money and this group [PUCC] is in place." So can we, Amanda. So can we. In fact, we can hear the shrill cries of debate and bickering that the PUCC is about to add to council chambers...
...more civilized parts it will. And to many Americans--who are by no means the "cultural elite" that conservative rhetoric invokes with such shrill banality--it already does. Of course, the defunding of the endowments isn't going to kill off the arts in America. Painters, dancers, actors are tough as weeds and can grow in cracks in the concrete. There was great art, drama, writing and scholarship in America before 1965, when the endowments were founded. Dedicated people create ingenious strategies of survival for themselves. But why should they have to? By what meanness, through what smug Philistinism...
Such an analysis inevitably elicits the shrill accusation of "sour grapes." Of course the winners in an election will pursue policies which advance their own interests and hurt those of the opposition. And the small-government, tax-cutting Republican neophytes would betray their supporters if they did any favors for the "welfare bureaucracy" so often excoriated in their campaign ads. Yet when conservatives seek to undercut the very means of political competition itself--to systematically cut off their ideological opponents from access to advocacy--there is good reason for alarm. Bewildered by attacks on all sides, American liberals need...