Word: spoilsport
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...various dates) features Thomas Moore, the author of Care of the Soul, and a group of Celtic musicians. With this show, Moore wants us to see Christmas as an occasion that can be celebrated by "people of all faiths or no faith." No one wants to be a spoilsport and criticize such ecumenism, but you wonder at what point a religion's symbols become so generalized that they lose all meaning. Still, Moore might have created a program that combined wonderful music with a discussion of how different religious traditions intersect at Christmas. Instead, he has provided light, pop-Celtic...
...show and is becoming a celebrity in his own right; Bud White (Australian actor Russell Crowe), who's a sweet, plodding sort of guy unless someone visits violence on women, which turns him into a raging brute; and Ed Exley (Guy Pearce, another Aussie), the departmental priss and spoilsport, thoroughly despised by everyone, as moral centers of amoral enterprises should be--until they turn out to have been right all along...
...potential spoilsport in the matter is Carl Lewis, who also wants the schedule changed--in Lewis' case to aid his quest for another gold in either the 200 or the 100. But based on recent performances, Johnson is clearly the more deserving of the two. Besides, track could use the publicity it would get from having Johnson win his two races and be declared the Jesse Owens of this generation...
Probably with this in mind, he took a courageous stance in Rio by defending American economic interests against an international consensus. Yet he was quickly mocked at home as the "spoilsport" in Rio, the undiplomatic one who selfishly focused on his own country's needs while the rest of the world was sharing and playing nicely...
...have the stature or the role," said Cuomo, who governs a state with the largest number of people outside Israel who understand the word chutzpah. "I'm just one of 50 Governors. I'm one of many, many Democrats . . . I don't have any special credentials." Except as a spoilsport, that...