Word: sillier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...denizens of the left blogosphere consider themselves the Democratic Party's base. But they are not. For Democrats, as opposed to Republicans, the wing is not the base; the legions of loyal African Americans, union members, Jews, women and Latinos are. In the end, the sillier left-village practitioners are stoking the same populist exaggeration - the idea that Washington is controlled by crooks and sellouts - that conservative strategists like Bill Kristol believe will bring the Republicans back to power. The perversity of this is beyond comprehension...
Cafferty, Jack silly hat worn by G-20 protester evokes sillier rage...
...catchy, upbeat riff over a wash of twinkling electricity, providing a level of intensity the subsequent tracks fail to maintain. The song explodes over pounding drums that grow more distant behind the whirling backdrop of fuzz. The lyrics, punctuated by Bono’s floating woah-oh harmonies, get sillier, hinting at the rest of the album’s lack of depth: “She said, ‘time is irrelevant, it’s not linear’ / Then she put her tongue in my ear.” Attempts at musical experimentation—electronics...
Finally, for a laugh or two, stop by the Silly Tasting Note Generator at gmon.com/tech/stng.shtm which spoofs pedantic wine criticism. You can instruct the program to pour out "normal silly" or "extra silly" comments--maybe even one sillier than "the tightly woven texture of pigeon flesh...
...answer comes in the film’s immense modern relevance: while a few of the 1950s’ sillier notions of sexual behavior have been dispelled—largely because of Kinsey’s seminal study, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male—many continue to regard some natural sexual urges as immoral. Most recently, eleven states voted to ban gay marriage. For those to whom such reactions to homosexuality and bisexuality seem irrational, the film will resonate particularly deeply after the election led eleven states to ban gay marriage...