Word: thanklessness
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...principal. Now, with her children grown, she lives in a suburb of Phoenix. Bombeck has been called the female Art Buchwald. A better parallel might be Bill Mauldin, the author of World War IIs Willie and Joe cartoons. For at bottom, she views the housewife as society's thankless foot soldier, engaged in countless small battles to preserve the family's besieged traditions and values. Despite her lightness and the overcuteness of her titles (I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression, The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank), she can flash genuine annoyance...
...sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child."-King Lear
There was less response as Carter acknowledged past criticism of his open-mouth style of public diplomacy. Yet he was applauded on the Administration's diplomatic role in the Middle East, which he described as "difficult and sometimes thankless and controversial-but it has been constructive, and it has been necessary, and it will continue...
Until now, the renegade liberals have enjoyed, save for sporadic repudiations within the academic community, a kind of "sacred cow" immunity from criticism and scrutiny. In large part thanks to their combative, intimidating intellectual styles, taking them on has appeared a thankless, nasty task. Yet in the past year, as the controversy over the Bakke case rages and as political thinkers choose sides in the debate over the issues of welfare reform and federal aid to cities, more and more people have begun to see beyond the blinding gloss of the new ethnicity to the bottom line, reactionary impulse that...
Still, Sellon does a fine job with this thankless role. His singing voice, while not particularly strong or melodious, suits his characterization to a tee. Sellon delivers the most sarcastic lines in the play with venom, and is just as effective when silent. He has a talent mime, and his supple movements and flexible facial expressions give Littlechap the humanity that the scripted character lacks. During the final minutes of the show, Sellon all but convinces the audience that this Littlechap isn't such a bad sort, after...