Word: shrillings
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...thing with shining red eyes on the roof. When it saw me it jumped down and disappeared," says Subhash. The stories are not adding up for Gogia. Was there a thumping sound as other witnesses reported? "Not a thumping sound," says another resident, Balwinder Singh, "but it makes a shrill whistle as it leaps." After half an hour Gogia and his police squad depart. "All kinds of fibbing and confabulations are going on," he says wearily...
...ratio. Indeed, it seems the only specimens of the male persuasion are reluctant boyfriends—one of them is curiously out of place in a Jim Morrison jacket, trying to look nonchalant. Somewhere, off in the far rear section of the line, an impossibly shrill voice pierces the winter frost and highlights the ineffable strangeness of the night: “Oh my God! I touched...
...women. Except for his first doomed love, Barbara (Franka Potente from Run Lola Run), every female in George's life is a harpy with a vengeance. His meanspirited mom (played by a miscast Rachel Griffiths, who is five years younger than Depp) turns him in to the police. His shrill, selfish wife Mirtha (Penelope Cruz, who for once manages to be unlikable) tells the cops he's holding. Even his daughter Kristina (Emma Roberts), the only person he cares for, has inherited enough of Mirtha's spite to denounce George while he's in jail...
...arrival at the crease, he studied the field; he did not perfunctorily glance about as most batsmen do. Satisfied, he'd utter a shrill "right" and crouch over his uncommonly light bat. That single word sent a powerful message: Bradman was ready. As the bowler moved in, Bradman revealed two more idiosyncrasies. First, he did not tap his bat, a habit observed by virtually every batsman at all levels. He was perfectly still?and still smiling. Second, his grip was unusual, his bottom hand turned more toward the front than the textbooks recommend...
...ability to retain its separate way of life. The guiding mantra in the former colony is "one country, two systems," but the trend, many fear, is veering more toward a single country and less toward diverging systems. Prominent Hong Kong citizens with strong ties to Beijing are issuing shrill condemnations of Falun Gong and its activities in the territory, prompting speculation that a mainland-style ban may follow. Others are happy to jettison personal freedoms if that increases the chance of doing business with the mainland...