Word: somberness
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What Clinton is proposing is a cold war-style containment of Iraq, a long-range and unpalatable option. In a televised speech at the Pentagon last Tuesday, the President wore a properly dark suit and a somber, clench-jawed expression. He seemed uncomfortable and spoke in a monotone that some of the senior officers listening found "flat" and "uninspiring." Force, Clinton said, was sometimes the only answer...
...speak for any armed group,? said leader Gerry Adams, denying what he?d always tacitly admitted -- regular contact with the Republican Army council. In a short statement, the IRA said the truce ?is intact? -- but pointedly did not refuse responsibility for the killings. Protestant leaders are publicly somber, privately cock-a-hoop at the thought of waving Sinn Fein good-bye. Said Reverend Ian Paisley, leader of the Democratic Unionists: ?I told...
...personally assisted a movement that destroyed fear," Cleaver said. "We are living in somber times.... Too much of what he talked about remains unchanged...
Looking back over her 66 years, Morrison says, "Being able to laugh got me through," and she does so far more often in private conversations than her dignified and rather somber public image would suggest. She jokes about her childhood in Lorain, Ohio. "I was the one with the anonymous birth order. There was my older sister, firstborn; me, void; my younger brother, first son; and another son, the family baby. Feeling left out, and trying to attract attention, I became the noisiest of them...
Pierce Brosnan is substantially improved as 007. Although no one can possibly surpass the standards set by Sean Connery, Brosnan in Tomorrow Never Dies probably comes the closest. In this movie he is much more somber, more reserved and better composed. He makes it seem as though his predicaments represent business as usual, and in so doing, seems to be having more fun. He has tamed his rampant smirks, paring down their usage so that they become a potent portrayer of cunning and savoir-faire and not simply a crutch...