Word: sours
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...house. His only child, a daughter, is away at boarding school in Switzerland, and he and his wife have not exercised their connubial rights in some time. Harry can't stand it. But it is also difficult to stand Harry. His soulless soliloquies and fearless superficiality thoroughly sour the movie...
Postulate a neurotic, hopeless main character, then spend 200 pages proving that the character is hopeless and neurotic. Occasionally a novelist succeeds with such an attenuation of the obvious. Joan Didion did, after a fashion, with Play It As It Lays. In this sour, stunted, perfunctory tale of a numbed rich boy, Jerzy Kosinski does...
...Industrial production in October, the most recently recorded month, fell 7% from the same period a year earlier, and farm output in 1972 was down roughly 10% from 197 1. The quality of production has slumped in nearly every category: most Chilean bread, for instance, is now a coarse, sour, brown sludge that produces more gas than nourishment. Allende is talking about handing back to Chilean businessmen some of the companies that his government earlier expropriated but now cannot manage...
...love for biology. With slatternly hair and frowsy bathrobe, Beatrice drags out her days on too much coffee and too many cigarettes, reading the want ads and trying to sell dance tickets on the phone. She wisecracks non-stop to waylay despair, but her sense of humor has gone sour and grates on even her daughters...
Olivier's face beautifully mirrors the progress of the games the characters play. When he's ahead, his high spirits bubble. He moves, and even prepares his caviar, with the rhythm of his Cole Porter 78's. But after even slight reversals in the plot, his face turns slightly sour; give him greater trouble and he'll pout; and if you beat him, why then he's momentarily lost, his virility sapped, though his rolling tongue will still grope for words with which to snatch victory...