Word: somber
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...then compared a law permitting a woman to defend herself against a would-be rapist with a woman’s right not to be besieged by “the aggressive fetus”—two sides of the same coin.At the somber candlelight vigil meant to be an occasion for victims to share their personal stories of rape, the last to speak was then-Assistant Professor of English Ann Pellegrini. She digressed, declaring her disappointment at how few contraceptive commercials were broadcast on television and lamenting that “matriarchy” provoked red squiggly...
...abrupt, somber farewell. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra took just 10 minutes of primetime TV Tuesday night to offer his resignation and call for national unity, before exiting stage right. Two days after a flawed parliamentary election that ended up producing more losers than winners, Thaksin said it was time for him to hand over power to an as yet unknown successor - though he would remain caretaker leader until a new government is formed. "We have no time to quarrel," he said. "I want to see Thai people unite and forget what has happened...
That is what the flooding from Katrina did to New Orleans, and the vividness of what it means to a modern city to lose so much housing and so many jobs has given the 1906 centennial a somber emotional edge. At risk in this case is not just a very large metropolitan population--the Bay Area now has about 7 million residents versus perhaps 800,000 in 1906--but also a vibrant $350 billion economy that includes one of the nation's largest financial hubs, one of its busiest ports and one of the world's densest concentrations of technical...
...Thief is about the moral choices of immoral men," says creator Norman Morrill, which is why he cast Braugher. It's a well-observed, sometimes too somber character study, its Southern-gothic mournfulness underscored not just by Braugher's tough, sad performance but also by the setting: post-Katrina New Orleans, littered with abandoned cars and LOOTERS WILL BE SHOT signs spray-painted on plywood. (The show was set and the pilot shot in the city a year before the hurricane.) Like his town, Nick has to restore order from the rubble, and it's not a glamorous job. "This...
Wandering the streets of St. Petersburg, which Bissell describes with luscious detail, Timothy is a spiritually fragmented man. Despite the companionship of his gay lover Sasha, Timothy is stuck in the aimless pursuit of curing his loneliness, and Bissell paints a movingly somber portrait that is never gloomy or drab. He wonderfully combines his bitingly sardonic (sometimes ironic) sense of humor with profound depictions of loneliness and emptiness...