Word: thinness
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Gibbs' Sun King moment came when he construed Limbaugh's opposition as "wishing and hoping for economic failure in this country"--not just anti-Obama but anti-American. In a time of crisis, the line between President and nation can be thin. And Limbaugh's defense--"What is so strange about being honest?"--sat awkwardly alongside his apoplectic reaction to Democratic criticisms of George W. Bush...
...again, the Camorra is the main character. Often these characters have typical anti-hero qualities, participating willingly in the mafia’s various profit-making activities. But the film is sympathetic to their stories, humanizing their fears and desperation, especially when sudden cracks of gunfire rip through the thin veneer of stability defining their existence. It impresses upon the audience that, despite its ugliness, this is the only life these characters are offered. The movie is not without its faults. The pacing of the film is slightly tedious, as its tangled subplots can be somewhat slow at times...
...providing a base for unison melodies on banjo and horns during the instrumental breaks. Singer Jof Owen has the voice for twee, an expressive near-whisper that works particularly well when multitracked into dense harmonies. His timbre reinforces their aesthetic of naïveté, but sounds a bit thin when soloing over acoustic guitar on tracks like “The Worm Forgives The Plow.” Owen’s vulnerable, intimate tone draws attention to his lyrics, which are rich in metaphor and often veer towards intentional self-parody, with lines like...
There was at least one thing we didn't have to worry about, Haile assured me. Pat's kidney doctor, Peter Smolens, would keep treating him even if he couldn't pay. Smolens, a thin, soft-spoken man, later told me that about 10% of his patients have inadequate insurance or none at all. He has agonized with some as they struggled with hard choices, like whether to have a hospital biopsy or pay their mortgage. As a physician, he said, "you just see them. You know you're not going to get paid...
...conviction that perception is reality, Geithner's fate rests less on how he performs in public than on how his plans fare: the market and most Americans care a lot more about the substance of the Administration's efforts to save the economy than they do about Geithner's thin delivery. Sure, he doesn't seem to fill his suit, and he talks too quickly, and he swallows the ends of his sentences, and he gives the impression of a grad student taking an oral exam, not someone leading the country out of perdition. But he'll be the hero...