Word: shrills
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Democrats to oppose it. "Unless the President takes on Daschle, we will have paralysis, and voters won't be able to see distinctions," says a House G.O.P. leader. But Bush favors a softer approach: calling for a continuation of post-9/11 unity and bipartisanship, thereby making Daschle seem shrill and churlish. At the same time, Bush knows that his father's apparent blindness to the recession of 1991 negated his Gulf War triumph. So between now and his State of the Union address on Jan. 29, Bush will hold a series of public events designed to prove his empathy...
...Democrats to oppose it. "Unless the President takes on Daschle, we will have paralysis, and voters won't be able to see distinctions," says a House G.O.P. leader. But Bush favors a softer approach: calling for a continuation of post-9/11 unity and bipartisanship, thereby making Daschle seem shrill and churlish. At the same time, Bush knows that his father's apparent blindness to the recession of 1991 negated his Gulf War triumph. So between now and his State of the Union address on Jan. 29, Bush will hold a series of public events designed to prove his empathy...
...English is often unintelligible; Lee, who plays the hero's intellectual friend, can't pronounce the word intellectual; and Diaz is forced to utter the most off-putting line in recent movies (let's just say it includes the word swallowed). The poor dear plays a character so shrill and needy that it makes Diaz almost not fantastically attractive...
...weeks ago Pakistani journalist and Bin Laden biographer Hamid Mir made headlines by publishing an interview with Bin Laden conducted at a secret location inside Afghanistan, in which the Saudi claimed to have nuclear weapons. Mir noted in passing that the bin Laden he met sounded more aggressive, even shrill than the soft-spoken terrorist he'd interviewed on a number of previous occasions. The Al Hayat claims about bin Laden doubles cast Mir's observation in a new light, at least for the conspiratorially minded...
...generate a kind of dignity, a classy presence that lends the opening stages of the film some elegance. DeVito clashes with this atmosphere and ruins it. He plays a major role in the ending, when the film takes a sudden and unwelcome turn for the brutal. His strident, shrill presence does nothing to make the film more watchable. Mamet clearly intended this to be an edge-of-your-seat thriller that keeps you guessing. But he piled on about three plot twists too many, and when he does get to something of a surprise conclusion, everybody has stopped caring...