Word: shrillings
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...Help me, help me! Somebody come help me!” Glazer imitates in a shrill squeal. “Oh Matt! I need you to come...
Tricky business, playing the wife who is cheated on by a movie's hero. If you go too shrill and harpyish, you give the audience a chance to excuse him. If you play the victim, you give the audience a chance to hate him. Either way, it takes away from the tragedy...
...begins a religious exploration of his own. Each member of the family seems to have an identity crisis and the plot partially hinges on whether the family can pull through as a whole. The movie’s awkward script incessantly repeats the negative father theme with its unnecessarily shrill dialogue. Despite forced lines and a one dimensional character, Gere’s portrait of a stolid philosopher reevaluating his ideology connects with all the emotional force the thespian can muster. Miriam is the most captivating character, thanks to Binoche’s ability to portray her intense internal conflicts...
...their demand that Abercrombie discontinue producing these t-shirts was contrary to the spirit of free enterprise. Young women—the very people whom the “girl-cott” was meant to protect—were buying the t-shirts in droves. That the shrill opinion of 23 teenage girls could override the demand of young women nationwide either speaks to Abercrombie’s own internal qualms, strange for a company that printed the shirts in the first place, or to its tacit admission that the shirts are meant more as publicity tools than serious...
...make the tax code less favorable to the wealthy). Yet each time the idea has surfaced it has been swatted away amid public outrage and the battle cries of every real estate lobbyist not sunning at his second home on Fiji. This time the outrage may be even more shrill, given the fears of a real estate bubble about to burst. "We are raising the loudest possible alarms," said Tom Stevens, president of the National Association of Realtors, which along with the Mortgage Bankers Association and other industry players concludes that losing the deduction would drive home prices as much...