Word: shrillings
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...Harvard, in society in general, as well as bringing up the questions of the brutal rape-imagery in the newsletter, and the socialization of sex stereotypes in society that the message has become clouded. Indeed, it seems that these women have merely served to confirm the image of the shrill feminist unfairly held by much of society...
...lines that have been provided for them. When Andrew calls his father in the desert after an argument, he says desperately, "don't worry. Dad, I'll pay for the call. You can take it out of my allowance." Thomas pulls off this unfathomable statement with a desperate, sometimes shrill voice, making the audience wish that the actors could have had a better script to develop their characters...
...daughter Jill Faulkner Summers. Sensibar's find will be published by the University of Texas Press next month. Faulkner's opinion of himself as "a failed poet" is unlikely to be challenged by the volume's 14 linked poems (sample: "The wind grows louder about me, shrill with pain,/ And blows the petalled faces from my heart"). But scholarly assessments of the novelist are already being revised to include a deepened appreciation of the poetic influences on his prose style...
...true that Nixon chose not to avail himself of the impeachment process, but there were reasons for that beyond the shrill quality of public discourse that made a fair trial moot. Not all of those reasons, which included an unselfish belief that the country would be sundered politically, economically and emotionally by a protracted impeachment process, redound to Nixon's discredit...
...feel that they have been tricked into doing so, that they will now be dismissed either for impractical idealism or for boring preachiness. White's sensitive health and unaggressive integrity, taken with the fact that he wrote in the highly personal form of the essay, made him vulnerable to shrill attacks long before vulnerability was the fashion...