Word: thanklessly
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...gets the feeling the audience roots for him only out of a sense of obligation. Warren is marginally better in a potentially interesting role that dwindles to almost nothing by the end of the film. Cristian de la Fuente, Gina Gershon, Stacy Edwards and Robert Sean Leonard are given thankless roles that are nothing but foils for the main characters...
...Tuesday night, Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt learned that lesson the hard way, batting clean-up for the Democrats after the President's first (and enthusiastically received) address to Congress. It was a thankless job: After all the nearly euphoric backslapping that met the President's speech, it fell to the Democrats to make a case for boring old frugality...
...Barak are simply not yet ready to conclude a workable peace, which leaves the Bush administration facing the headache of fashioning a new policy towards the conflict. President-elect Bush said Tuesday that his predecessor was "giving it his best shot?and I certainly hope it works." Indeed, the thankless task of Mideast peacemaking may be one bit of the presidency Bush would happily have left to the Democrats...
This year, it is a pleasure to endorse a candidate for the Undergraduate Council presidency without reservation. Leading a cash-strapped student government that few of its constituents fully appreciate is a thankless task. But we are convinced that Paul A. Gusmorino III '02, who has worked tirelessly for the student interest in his five terms on the council, is the right man for the job. Gusmorino is by far the most qualified and talented candidate in a strong field, and we believe that he will lift the council out of the aimless and ineffectual mire it has slipped into...
...want to be George Mitchell? Having spent the best part of half a decade patiently cobbling together a Northern Ireland peace treaty that has never moved far from the verge of collapse, he now has the thankless task of picking up the pieces of the failed Middle East peace process. The former U.S. senator is heading a commission of European heavyweights charged with investigating the root causes of the current violence in the West Bank and Gaza, and recommending remedies. The urgency, and complexity, of their task was underlined Wednesday when four Palestinian policemen died in a predawn shootout with...