Word: somber
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...commitment to the American people and they are responding, out comes yet a new round of these outrageous, terrible stories that people plant for political and financial reasons.'' Mrs. Clinton threw herself into her work with fresh vigor, but her husband seemed somber and distracted in private meetings. In public he was unusually careful in his words. ''I just don't want to do anything to prolong this,'' he said. The Spectator article, long on damaging detail but short on corroboration, was based largely on interviews with two Arkansas state troopers, Larry Patterson and Roger Perry, assigned to Clinton...
...drawn from album “Tallahassee,” the other from this year’s “The Sunset Tree.” The first is a series of histrionic confessionals by a fictional narrator, while the second drops the overblown emotionality for more somber autobiographical reflection...
...instead, a song “just like Cubs in Five, except it’s all about death and loss.” At the center of his set, he placed one of the closing pieces of “Sunset Tree,” the usually somber elegy “Love Love Love.” The song starts at the periphery of a child’s education: “King Saul fell on his sword…and Joseph’s brother sold him down the river for a song...
...film expertise to the production.The unrelentingly long video, however, begins as a pastiche of ’50s era teen melodramas: a varsity-jacketed Michael professes his eternal love to his poodle skirt-clad girlfriend (already straining believability to the contemporary observer) on a starlit night. He then grows somber and intones: “I’m not like other guys.” This is surely one of history’s greatest understatements. The poor girl dismisses Michael’s warning (bad move), and Michael transforms into a gruesome wolf-man before her very eyes...
...time he was set to leave for Cambridge, Fingleton’s mother had kicked Harold out. The film shows a somber farewell between father and son, one of the last interactions they ever had before Harold’s death. Later, an ecstatic young Tony tries to convince his reluctant mother that Harvard is the right place for him. As it turns out, he was correct...