Word: somberness
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Afterward Reagan repeated his vow to veto the kind of tax increases, higher domestic-program funding and lower military-spending levels included in the Gorton compromise. At a White House staff meeting the next morning, the mood was somber, despite the attitude of detachment toward the Senate budget decisions. It was dawning on everyone that Reagan's inability to wring an acceptable budget out of the Republican Senate was a sign of political weakness, not something to brag about on the hustings. It was becoming clear too that running against Congress is tricky when one house belongs...
...lost age of youth--especially the gaily colored blousy dresses that look as though they were lifted from an Impressionist canvas. But by 1938 the room in which the entire play takes place is furnished with heavy leather couches and chairs. The bright dresses have given way to dark, somber, serious business suits...
Wilson gives glimpses of his own bed. Although rotund and stodgy, he never lacked for lovers. He had a reputation as a philanderer. In 1946 he married his fourth and last wife, the aristocratic European beauty Elena Mumm Thornton. Somber, itemized accounts of their love-making suggest that Wilson paid inordinate attention to her feet. "Folded together [her toes] looked so fine and white," he noted. "Sensual pleasures of holding the insteps and kissing the toes at their base...
After leaving Spain, Tuchman stayed on in Paris, writing for United Editorial--a U.S.-sponsored publishing outfit that issued a weekly report on the war--and working against non--intervention and appeasement. As she later wrote, "It was a somber, exciting, believing, betraying time, with heroes, hopes, and illusions. I have always felt that the year and decade of reaching one's majority, rather than of one's birth, is the stamp one bears. I think of myself as a child of the '30s. I was a believed then, as I suppose people in their 20s must be (or, were...
...setting is not Victorian England but a modern university in Ontario a cloistered enclave of Renaissance scholarship housing characters whose somber public lives belie the sensational reality of their private existences Maria, a graduate student who insists on interpreting all events in terms of Rabelais and Parcelsus, narrates half the chapters. The others are voiced by the Reverend Simon Dar-court, a professor of religion who is writing a series of meditations on the modern university...