Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...BARACK The cover of TIME, Oprah, the morning talk shows, conservative columnist David Brooks--the media have a huge mancrush on the smooth, stylish but somewhat inexperienced Senator Barack Obama. Which bodes well if we add swimsuit and talent categories to the presidential contest...
Weather Report were the most talented practitioners of fusion, a style often derided primarily because it shades into “smooth jazz,” widely acknowledged as the most soulless genre in the history of music. Unfortunately, many of the tracks on this set veer uncomfortably close to the F-word, such as “Cannon Ball” and their oft-copied version of “Birdland...
While a lot of the smooth jazz blunders seem to come in the middle of the second disc, even the rest of the tracks seem like throwbacks to a time that to many younger listeners just sounds too eighties. “Dara Factor Two” opens with the brushes of a synth-heavy pop song and can’t manage to recover, conjuring up images of neon pink and black outfits and primitive special effects in music videos...
...concern to be taken seriously. Men who wear unattractive baseball caps make me uncomfortable, but I've gotten used to the world not being aesthetically designed to my taste. No, the issue is very specifically the niqab, and the obstacle it poses to human interaction and smooth integration. What does seem obvious is that the assimilation of British Muslims is a troubled process, and that intrusive squares of cloth should remain an open, but peripheral debate...
...come to church precisely because you were of this world, not apart from it; rich, poor, sinner, saved, you needed to embrace Christ precisely because you had sins to wash away - because you were human and needed an ally in your difficult journey, to make the peaks and valleys smooth and render all those crooked paths straight...