Word: wallowers
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...movies, inspiring their unlikely charges to equally unlikely triumphs. Most of these films insist they are based on "true" stories, though none that I know of confess to those melodramatic heightenings of the facts that, sooner or later, place lumps in our throats - which, according to taste, we either wallow in or try to swallow back...
...fire department) and which we know, from the first time we see it, has to fall in some embarrassing way. The film aspires, I suppose, to sober Chekovian comedy - could that tree analogize to a Cherry Orchard? - but it is actually no more than an invitation to wallow in ill-defined neuroses. "So true, so sad," one imagines an impressionable viewer murmuring. "Let me out of here," one imagines most people saying...
...doesn't necessarily add depth or soul to their performances. On the contrary, the history of show business is replete with sad stories that are redeemed by disciplined hard work. Plenty of stars refuse to trade on their hard-knock lives; they entertain us, not by forcing us to wallow in their miseries, but by causing us to forget our own for an hour...
...Sure. But I am uniquely motivated by sports and sportswriting in particular, and I’d rather indulge my passion and create quality work than pretend to be interested in something more “serious” in order to attain some perceived added credibility and wallow in mediocrity.If that’s not significant, I don’t know what is.—Loren Amor ’10 lives in Stoughton Hall. He is from Nueva York, wherever the hell that...
Could things be any worse for George W. Bush and his beleaguered party? In the new TIME poll, the President's job approval rating continues to wallow near his all-time lows, at 33%, while his disapproval rating breaks the 60% barrier for the third consecutive survey. On Iraq, meanwhile, just 38% of respondents think the U.S. was right to invade, and only 37% believe "the new Iraqi government will be able to build a stable and reasonably democratic society." Given a choice of policy options going forward, 68% endorse proposals to withdraw most combat troops, either within a year...