Word: shrilled
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...bittersweet as Colonel Peck strove before the committee to reconcile his unwavering love for his homosexual son with his steadfast support of the ban. For the millions of viewers watching the televised hearing, the colonel's poignant struggle humanized a search for a compromise solution that has become shrill and riddled with stereotypes...
...discover and invent today, that is the single most important motivation for the scholar's continued existence. It scandalizes Harvard that members of its faculty greet Powell not with the respect and gratitude he deserves for his role in securing the peace we enjoy today, but rather with egotistical, shrill demands for a change in policy which, realistically, he cannot support...
...George Miller's tedious film, he is also, during much of the time, lost. For this true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone (Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon) focuses on their frantic efforts to find a cure for their boy's rare disease (adrenoleukodystrophy). Their search leads them into shrill conflict with an overcautious medical establishment. It also draws them into that least cinematic of environments, the library. When they are not poring over volumes, they are earnestly discussing their various findings. Both modes distance the audience from them and their tragic offspring. Eventually the couple manage to find...
...last few days, Bush had grown unpresidentially shrill, repeatedly calling Clinton and his running mate Al Gore "bozos." But on election night he bowed out graciously. "We respect the majesty of the democratic system," he told supporters, and he congratulated Clinton on a "strong campaign." In % Little Rock, Arkansans literally danced in the streets at their Governor's victory. Appearing on an outdoor stage, an exuberant Clinton repeated some of his campaign themes, asserting that the people had said "we want our future back, and I intend to help give it to you." But he participated in the ritual...
...Gore, tore into each other with a zest that frequently left Perot's running mate, retired Vice Admiral James Stockdale, a tongue-tied bystander. Quayle was a far cry from the vacuous dolt so often portrayed. He mounted a sharply focused, though overly glib and often shrill, attack, repeatedly taunting Gore about "pulling a Clinton" -- that is, waffling. Gore, though a bit stiff and repetitious -- it would be hard to count how many times he accused the White House of practicing "trickle-down economics" -- had a sharp answer for everything; he came off, at worst, even. Quayle may no longer...