Word: stolidness
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...like Orange Juice--or The Orange Juice, as Edwyn Collins called his band during its declining years--generally compare these fey Glaswegians to the Smiths. (Glaswegians, by the way, were and are unpredictable people from Glasgow, Scotland. The Smiths, similarly, were distraught people from Manchester, England.) These stolid naysayers aren't entirely wrong: Johnny Marr may have picked up the soulful, chiming guitar sound of the first Smiths records in part from the soulful, chiming sound perfected by James Kirk, the Orange Juice guitarist whose (real) name may or may not have inspired the Wedding Present and the Bodines...
While adding exotic new creeds, the tide of immigration since the 1960s has also increased the variegation within Christianity. Millions of Hispanics have brought a florid, fervent Latin sensibility into U.S. Catholicism, challenging a church hierarchy dominated by the stolid sons and grandsons of Irish immigrants, who now are struggling to recruit Hispanic priests. The bishops also face Pentecostal or Baptist soul winners who successfully target Spanish- speaking neighborhoods. Meanwhile, Koreans have had a notable impact within - Protestantism with their evangelistic zeal and religious traditionalism...
...social and political institutions, then homosexual activity clearly must unravel the fabric of such a society and "undermine civilization." The "queer" polemicists at least have the advantage of facing squarely the radical implications of their social and political program; the BGLSA's attempt to hide behind a screen of stolid social respectability is simply naive...
Robert Dole. The once stolid, sardonic and brooding Senate minority leader has seemed positively giddy since Clinton moved into the White House. Dole has never before enjoyed the luxury of being minority leader against a Democratic President -- and he clearly likes the work. To be sure, the President has yet to make it difficult for him. Last month Clinton's decision to stick with his own so-called economic stimulus package, instead of an alternative proposal suggested by key Senate Democrats on the Finance Committee, made it possible for Dole to unify all his 43 Republicans behind a filibuster that...
...abuse, playing the telephone like an organ as he hypocritically curries or grandiosely dispenses favor. Stephen Spinella as the sick, saintly queen and Joe Mantello as his unhinged lover are endlessly watchable, nakedly real. Alas, David Marshall Grant and Marcia Gay Harden are ciphers as the Mormons, he as stolid as wood and she vibrating like Jell-O; neither offers insight into the pain that mainstream audiences are most apt to understand...