Word: sullenness
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There was no celebration in Tikrit, Saddam's home town, and elsewhere former regime members were sullen and glum, looking for further proof, refusing to believe even when word came that the confirmation went beyond the local authorities, beyond the CIA and the Pentagon, down to the level of his scars and his cells, a DNA test. According to Senator Pat Roberts, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the U.S. had some of Saddam's senior aides driven to Tikrit to view him and confirm it was him. A shopkeeper there named Basim al-Tikriti said, "I am shocked...
...There was no celebration in Tikrit, Saddam?s home town, and elsewhere former regime members were sullen and glum, looking for further proof, refusing to believe even when word came that the confirmation went beyond the local authorities, beyond the CIA and the Pentagon, down to the level of his scars and his cells, a DNA test. According to Senator Pat Roberts, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the U.S. had some of Saddam?s senior aides driven to Tikrit to view him and confirm it was him. A shopkeeper there named Basim al-Tikriti said, ?I am shocked...
...apparent that the band was going in a different direction from They Threw Us All in a Trench. They opened with the sprawling lead track from They Were So Wrong, “Broken Witch,” exchanging guitar from Hemphill with drum fills, as Andrew croaked a sullen chant: “I, I am the boy; she, she is the girl; he, he is the bear. We, we, we…”—a seeming parody of simple rock lyrics that perfectly parallels the song’s and the band?...
...abused or neglected child feel safer or manage a parent with a poorly controlled bipolar disorder. A child's behavior, in large part, is influenced by his environment: witnessing or experiencing abuse will cause anxiety and depression; an empty stomach will contribute to distraction, loss of interest and a sullen state of mind. Before prescribing a drug for mood and behavior, health-care providers must consider genetic, social, educational and environmental influences on a child. PAUL CATALANA, M.D. Greer...
...moment of Thursday-night-lull weakness (not to mention moral weakness, according to the RIAA), I downloaded Clerks last week. I got through about an hour of its grainy black and white glory before conceding to the sullen stack of books that sat accusingly on my desk. Before long, though, I was sneaking back to the movie, just to watch Jay and Silent Bob dance in front of the convenience store one more time. Clerks had snared me for the night, but its magnetism had less to do with cinematic excellence than with the familiarity, the memories, that the movie...