Word: souring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of the same team-is erased. Rape is the real basis of the family, monogamy or any other exclusive sexual relationship be tween men and women. In sum: Brownmiller's analysis of rape may have less to do with the problem itself than with the sour antimale, anti-family attitudes currently fashionable among militant feminists...
...only sour note for the Red Sox is that the Indians have won nine of 14 encounters between the two teams this season...
...system--bitterness which emerges in serious personal questioning, in hurt pride, in a sense of the uselessness of daily routine. "When you're jobless," Hesford says, "the rigamarole you have to go through for your thesis after it's finished and the whole Commencement thing seem a little sour. You start thinking, 'What's the diploma worth...
...catch an audience unawares, how to embellish and tantalize. A good example of Lombardo's expeditious, off-angle characterization is his introduction of a character named Henke (Val Avery), who is being sought by various intelligence agencies so that he can be put on ice. Henke, a sour, anonymous-looking man lugging a brown paper bag of groceries and a fresh copy of Playboy, retrieves a rubber ball for a bunch of neighborhood kids. They ask him to give it back, and he looks, for a moment, uncertain. Then he throws the ball through the glass window...
Compelled to forswear sex out of an exaggerated fear for her lovers' wellbeing, Sand would deliberately transform her passion into a chaste maternal solicitude for her beloved. Eventually the privation she imposed upon herself would sour and destroy the relationship. As seen in her letters and diaries, this emotionally exhausting, sexually unfulfilling pattern is endlessly repeated until her life begins to read like a cautionary tale on the excesses of romantic love...