Word: temperedness
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I read J.K. Rowling's tribute to Gordon Brown with incredulity, only tempered by the knowledge that her speciality is fiction. Graham Turner, KIRKBYMOORSIDE, ENGLAND
Her popularity in Britain had been tempered by the "Boyle backlash," a phenomenon created and christened by the national media which at first hyped her natural talent and then attacked her for being overhyped. Newspaper reports that Boyle was behaving erratically in the days before the final raised questions about...
On a typical day, few of the hundreds of thousands of people who flow past the Liujiayao Bridge in southern Beijing pay any attention to Su Lianzhi. But on March 23, the 53-year-old fruit vendor became the cause of thousands of passing commuters. Around 11 a.m., as Su...
Although it vividly outlines the worsened relations between Russia and the West, the anti-Western rhetoric is tempered with acknowledgment of the beginning of rapprochement with the Obama Administration. "Now there is a viewpoint in the Kremlin that the U.S. can be worked with," says Nikolai Petrov, an analyst at...
Orci and Kurtzman managed this by making Star Trek a standard revenge epic, as punk rebel James Kirk becomes a man by chasing down Nero, the renegade Romulan who killed his father at the very moment James was born. (In the inevitable sequel, will Kirk find out that Nero is...