Word: swooned
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...Tinkers Blues”. But the fact is that this is good songwriting: these could be played as rock songs at double the tempo and still sound good. It’s just that Mojave 3 like the swoony sound. If you feel the need to swoon, or simply sigh enigmatically, check this out. —Andrew R. Iliff
...appears in court. He would rather attend, as he did recently, a conference in a motel ballroom off Highway 35 to talk about how to fight substance abuse. Predictably, those in the movement for community justice, which tries to combat the sources of crime as well as punish it, swoon over him. "He has a track record going back years of working toward crime prevention by working in the community," says Catherine Coles, a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government who studied Earle's office...
...opulence of the Fontainebleu Hotel; she orders room service, and "I can still see the giant fresh peach that came wrapped in a napkin." In her way, Hillary Rodham--the awkward Midwestern grind, the Methodist too-gooder--is as much of an outsider as Bill Clinton. Her swoon is inevitable, her willful blindness to his flaws almost understandable. Almost...
...what a romance it was! From Morocco to Bahrain, many Arabs a decade ago would practically swoon as they described their adoration of the man who defied America during the gulf crisis. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was the valorous knight, defender of the Arab cause. Arab nationalists debated whether he bore a closer resemblance to Bismarck or to Saladin. In widespread pro-Iraq protests, the refrain in the streets was "With our blood, our souls, we will sacrifice for Saddam!" Some Arabs even swore they saw the face of Saddam on the surface of the moon...
...genteel centerpiece, but perhaps due to his vast clientele in the film industry, he is inclined to create something dramatic rather than traditionally romantic: say, a small, distressed-wood chest filled with mossy greens, chocolate-colored roses and blood-red orchids that would cause the most brooding goth to swoon...