Word: sour
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What a triumphant contrast to the sour mood of the early season, when huff and puff as it might, the Crimson attack just couldn't blow anything past the big, bad opposing goalie...
CALIFORNIA: If the state's economy had stayed sour, little could have stopped Kathleen Brown. Pete Wilson, the incumbent, forced to raise taxes in his first term, had reaped a 20% approval rating. Brown, the state treasurer, as well as the daughter and sister of previous Governors Pat and Jerry, demanded fiscal overhaul and gleaned a 23-point lead in the polls...
...Becker is more preoccupied than ever with the inner-most matters of the heart. Most of his songs, like the sharp blues workout Cringemaker and the lithe My Waterloo, plumb tales of love gone sour. Even though Becker's melodies sometime seem stark and his voice is a mere bleat, his ear for catchy grooves gives Whack soulfulness and heft. Down in the Bottom, the CD's finest cut, chugs forward on a rhythm smart enough to make Smokey Robinson proud and maybe even cool enough to have made Charlie Parker feel like soloing. Don't ever expect the jazz...
...characters in Antonioni's 1961 critically acclaimed masterpiece do not do anything. They loll onboard a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily, drive through the countryside in open convertibles, and pass each other in the halls of rich hotels and apartments. Antonioni's beautiful women and their idle, sour men lack a moral structure to their actions and, along the same lines, Antonioni's film lacks a narrative structure for its own action...
...suspension did not appear to sour Cole on bridge, or tame his desire...