Word: sullenness
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...reform, and it is from their work that politicians draw the ideas and phrases which are daily displayed as part of the debate on the draft, Partly the scientists are excited by the prospect of having their theories tested, partly they are excited that the government, after years of sullen hostility to academics, is soliciting their advice...
...PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE (Broadside). Three of the pot religion's high priests (Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner) read from "The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead" in droning, sullen voices that might be coming from the far side of the grave. "You are about to begin a great adventure, a trip out of your mind," Leary promises. What the listener is really about to begin is a dull record, with little to recommend it beyond a beautifully executed jacket drawing...
...have reached one conclusion after reading your latest civil rights blurb. All civil rights marchers plod bravely, with heads held high as befits God's noblest creatures, while surrounded by ignorant, sullen, savage, glowering Mississippians who show resentment and hatred by snarling, cursing, flailing and kicking them. The marchers are protected only by porcine cops who with measured malevolence gas, club and kick them. I wish you paid as much homage to truth as to adjectives...
...sullen, savage, Southerner...
...Kenmore Square opens into an alley whose sole illumination is from a giant neon sign which sits on top of a building across the street. The light from the sign changes in color and intensity, sometimes filling the alley with paradesial brightness and sometimes abandoning it to a sullen purple gloom...