Word: sorrier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July 27, 1980, Radio Tehran announced the death of "the bloodsucker of the century." The judgment was self-serving and exaggerated the Shah's stature. Shawcross's story of a pawn in King's clothing comes to a sorrier conclusion. The Shah's reign, this book suggests, was less a study in the banality of evil than the banality of pride...
...feel sorrier still, though, for anyone who has to sit through a show that includes not only moments like these but two renditions of the vastly overexposed Pachelbel Canon. Sex in art is usually erotic, titillating, or at least funny, but in Cloud 9, it is none of the above...
...layered in grit and now applied with a kind of skidding creaminess, he achieves a fluency of rhetoric that does much to animate the more standardized conventions of his work. His sculpture is another matter. Nothing, not even the passionate exhortations of the Greens, could make you feel sorrier for a tree than the sight of Baselitz's wooden totems, hacked and mauled with a chain...
...Americans are more resistant to this long list of "isms" that compete with capitalism than any people on earth; after all, the flexibility of our system has served us well, both materially and politically, even if it has been at great cost to others elsewhere. There is no sight sorrier than a doctrinaire American leftist, bellowing bellicosities, handing out leaflets, lifting high the red flag of revolution, and getting nothing but scowls. We need a much more flexible value to instill, some sort of humanist concern that will allow us eventually to see the shortcomings of our own nation...
...York City was never in a sorrier state. Increased crime, impossible subways, broken-down buses, messed-up schools, filthy streets. Are these the accomplishments of a great mayor? My answer to Ed Koch's "How'm I doin'?" is "Not good, buddy, not good...