Word: sourfulness
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...played by Cybill Shepherd) and the girl he wanted to protect (Jodie Foster). For Ronnie, Brandi is the woman he aspires to - he says, with feeling, "She's the prettiest girl in this entire mall, if not the world" - though in Faris' acute performance, her dull eyes and sour turn of mouth tell us she should be placed not on a pedestal but in the trash bin. And Nell (Colette Wolfe) is the nicest girl Ronnie doesn't quite notice: a smiling, saintly, abused cripple of near Dickensian poignancy...
...despots like Mobutu Sese Seko, ruler of Zaire for 32 years, who took the country as personal reward for "liberating" it. But it is also observed around the world. A tide of leftwing revolt in Latin America, China and Southeast Asia left much of the same sour legacy of totalitarianism. In India, the Gandhi family has towered over its democracy for 60 years. In the Middle East, after helping broker a historic peace deal with Israel in 1993, Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement quickly lapsed into authoritarianism and corruption. As a young man, Henning Melber, executive director...
...Crocker doesn’t want to sound like a “sour loser,” he says, but he carefully suggests that the game wasn’t quite as fair as it should have been. According to Crocker, Nick had to play a “perfect game” but was obstructed by the numerous violations called against the team—and it probably didn’t help that one of the umpires was a former coach for UConn. Moreover, the opponent had been clearly bent on neutralizing the strongest player...
...dominated court declared forcefully that California may not discriminate against gays in any way, giving the ruling more legal force and sweep than any decision of its kind ever has. Thousands of couples flocked to clerk's offices to be wed. Months later, in November, however, that jubilation turned sour, when Californians voted to change the constitution to forbid gay marriage. Soon after, some gay activists from across the country were asking for a time out, arguing that the marriage activists had pushed too fast and too hard - and that the backlash in more conservative states would undo any progress...
...their ultimate choice of where to matriculate. “My impression of the mission of the blog is that it is trying to reassure people,” said Nicholas A. Geiser, one of the six student contributors. “Even though the economy is kind of sour and financial aid offers are down, it’s still possible to afford a college education.” Geiser, a San Francisco University High School senior who applied to 12 schools including Harvard, also said that the blog is a way of reclaiming the college admissions process...