Word: solemnness
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...also serves as the narrator of the play. Brener shows growth in Skippy’s character, which we don’t see as clearly in the rest of the cast, and does so with skill and subtlety.At first, Brener’s narration seems over-serious and solemn. He references obscure literary texts in an attempt to distance himself from the problems of his family through logical analysis. Yet eventually, as those attempts break down, Skippy accepts the weaknesses of his parents and comes to terms with their flaws. Brener’s sincerity in showing that transformation...
Which only reminds me of how things break down in October, that most solemn of months. The balky shoulders of Cardinals third baseman Scott Rolen sag under the weight of October; so do Nomar’s hands, A-Rod’s mojo (what’s left of it, anyway), and the bags under my eyes. Eight o’clock start times, plus midterms...
...This was supposed to be the most serious, solemn, super-politicized Toronto International Film Festival ever. And we have had plenty of grim testimonies, both doc and mock, to terrorism in the pre- and post-9/11 world, from Alexander Oey's My Life as a Terrorist: The Story of Hans Joachim Klein - which documents the seizing of OPEC Ministers in Vienna in 1975 by a commando brigade that included Klein and was led by Carlos the Jackal - to Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein's meticulous, devastating The Prisoner: Or, How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, the story...
...Fuentes, 61. ?Later on I found out many of my students? parents were killed in the World Trade Center.? Fuentes was one of thousands of people who visited the site this past Monday, beginning at dawn. Some came to pay their respects to lost friends and relatives, others for solemn, if not emotional, observance; still others came to shout their opinions into the street supporting or criticizing the war in Iraq...
...There she stands, poised on the balance beam - a 4-in. strip of spruce, 161/2 ft. long, 4 ft. above the padded flooring. The palms of her hands are coated with gymnasts' chalk that is as white as her uniform, as white as her face. She is an infinitely solemn wisp of a girl, 4 ft. 11 in. tall, a mere 86 lbs.; dark circles above her cheeks; a Kean-eyed elf. Then, with no more strain than it would take to raise a hand to a friend, she is airborne: a backflip, landing on the sliver...