Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This battle comes across most clearly in the way Yeremin directs his actors. Ivanov tells the story of Nikolai Ivanov, a once idealistic young landowner now made tired and obsolete by the failures of the liberal reforms of Czar Alexander III. Ivanov is sick of his life, sick of his wife now dying of tuberculosis, sick of his entire milieu. He is bored with his very existence. The insight and sensitivity that Chekov shows for his characters and their problems comes across in whispers and unsaid words, in the meanings that we hide underneath meaningless social conventions. For Yeremin, though...
...proclaimed that Gwyneth Paltrow is a fraud--an entire waste of space on our magazine racks. So Gwyneth, having read my words and realizing the trendiness of Gwyneth-bashing, gave the following speech at a Women in Hollywood awards luncheon this past week: "I mean is anybody else sick of fucking Gwyneth Paltrow? Everywhere you look you see her. She's in the tabloids, the video stores, fashion magazines. I mean she seems nice enough. But I mean, come on! Am I the only one who saw Hush! As far as I'm concerned, that girl needs a hamburger...
...Bush afraid that Steve Forbes will launch a round of attack ads like those that so damaged Bob Dole four years ago? Listen to Bush talk about why we're so cynical about politics. "I believe oftentimes campaigns resort to mud throwing and name calling, and Americans are sick of that kind of campaigning," he says, chatting with an unseen listener. "I'd like to run a campaign that is hopeful and optimistic and very positive." It's a textbook effort at inoculation. If you hear anything bad about me, the ad's subtext says, it's that mud throwing...
...crunch could come on his first bill. Judging from his style in New York, he would refer to colleagues who spoke against it as idiotic or disgusting or sick--even if they'd presented cogent arguments against legislation that would grant Senators, as a matter of personal privilege, the right to put homeless shelters in other people's neighborhoods...
...sick of the expense and hassle of getting prescriptions filled in the physical world. Is the Internet better? It depends on where and how you shop...