Word: sullenly
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...many Iraqis, may be the only thing preventing a slide into a sectarian bloodbath. The Bush Administration hopes that increased Sunni political participation will help defuse the insurgency. But elections have proved an insufficient antidote to the violence, and the U.S. and Iraq's new leaders have given sullen Sunnis few tangible reasons to support them. Because of security concerns, the State Department has only one envoy and one staff member from the U.S. Agency for International Development for the whole of Anbar province. As a result, reconstruction money isn't being spent in insurgent-friendly places like Fallujah. Says...
...figures in the two frames face each other. One is a study of sullen little girl rendered in hasty brushstrokes. The other, a delicately sketched Renaissance noblewoman, is a copy of a drawing attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci. At first glance, these two works seem to have little in common.But Stephan Wolohojian, professor of history of art and architecture and a curator of the “Degas at Harvard” exhibit, can point out exactly why these two works are hanging side by side. It’s not simply that both were created by Edgar Degas during...
Nothing about Reagan is spectacular--except his continuing success. Almost nothing that Reagan does is all that great--but he does something. The lions of the liberal-policy elite of Washington, so enamored of cosmic theories and academic credentials, have retreated into a sullen silence. "They harbor a horrible resentment of Reagan because he is not following their prescriptions on how to run the world," says one scholar. "Worse, he is successful...
...epoch of Mommy and Daddy Dearest, this memoir is anomalous: a daughter extravagantly admires her father. Nancy Sinatra is aware of Frank's liabilities--the mercurial temper, the sullen withdrawals, the ring-a-ding-ding philosophy. But as she shows, much of the gossip is myth. The subject admits that if he had been quite the satyr of legend, "I'd be speaking to you today from a jar in the Harvard Medical School." Instead, he speaks through a remarkable series of interviews ("It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone...
Nick Jeffrey's book, "Centerfield" (Floppy Comix; 32 pages; $3.50) reads like a suppressed howl of anguish and guilt, exorcized through a darkly humorous tale of the author's junior high school baseball exploits. Jeffrey depicts himself as a scowling, sullen teenager who never smiles once in the entire book. Though he has a professed hatred of sports, except for professional wrestling, he consistently joins the losing baseball team of his Catholic school. In his final year, two major events converge: the team gets a star player who takes them to the playoffs and Nick's father, who Nick adores...