Word: somber
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...perhaps, just a line in the sand, but the change of the calendar year gave the country a chance--an excuse--to shake off the somber shadow cast by the events of Sept. 11. The war in Afghanistan has subsided, we've had our holiday breather, and life is returning--as much as it can--to something closer to the way it once was. At least it is trying to, judging from a few recent signs...
...little crazy to live in New York, but you'd be nuts to live anywhere else." The first time veteran Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng came to visit, he asked me to translate the words for him. Chuckling heartily, he pointed to his nose. "Just like me," he said, suddenly somber. "You have to be a little crazy to stand up to the Chinese government, but it's nuts not to." Exiled after 18 brutal years in prison, Wei was still as defiant as he was in 1978, when he decided to publicly avow his conviction that China could never truly...
Arafat had one friendly visitor last week--an Israeli at that. Tamar Gozansky, a member of the Israeli Parliament from the leftist Hadash Party, met with him Tuesday evening in Ramallah. Arafat was in a somber spirit, she said, quiet and tired. He told her he thought Israel was exploiting the deeds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad to destroy him. Arafat smiled only once, Gozansky said; that was when she told him she hadn't given up her belief in the peace process. It wasn't clear whether he grinned in appreciation, or out of amusement at her naivete...
...latter include the somber and acerbic hymn of hate to the boredom French lefty intellectuals always attribute to respectable middle-class life, Sunday, 1888-1890. (Does the worthy proletariat ever suffer from ennui? Apparently not.) Nothing is happening. A young husband in a stiff jacket and striped pants is poking the fireplace in a desultory way. His wife stares out the window, her back to us. The folds and pleats of her costume, intensely formal, suggest a caryatid--but a caryatid with nothing at all to support and nothing whatever to do. An equally bored-looking cat, if cats...
...somber mood is out of place for a store that specializes in gag gifts and wind-up toys, like a furry, dancing “Kung Fu Hamster” and a plastic doll called “happy monk with cellular phone and espresso.” Several of their toys have even been featured in blockbuster movies...