Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is even some hope that the air war might make a ground war unnecessary -- that Iraqi troops whose supplies, communications and, in particular, water had been cut off by the air strikes would surrender en masse. But that is a rather wan hope. Says a senior U.S. commander: "It would be marvelous if the Air Force could do it alone, but it has never happened before, and I doubt it will now. Ultimately, this war will be won on the ground...
...unified sect," insists Teachout, adding that they do have one tenet in common: "The political and intellectual legacies of our older brothers and sisters, the baby boomers of the '60s, were a flop, a failure, a disaster." He sums up those legacies as "stale '60s romanticism, wan '70s disillusion, tedious '80s whining...
...travelers sought. His prose got under the skin of . hapless Port and Kit and revealed their itch for romantic catastrophe. But movies are as different from novels as show is from tell. The director who would adapt this treacherous tale must find resources other than interior monologues and wan philosophizing. Bertolucci knew this when, after conquering China and Hollywood with The Last Emperor, he and co-screenwriter Mark Peploe approached The Sheltering Sky. "Instead of using language and psychology, I wanted to be more physical," he says. "I wanted you to feel the smells, the heat, even the cold -- suddenly...
...Midwest, where I grew up, by saying that in the Midwest if you approach someone who is operating a retail business and ask him if he has change for a quarter, he is not likely to call you a fascist. He is certainly not going to say, "G'wan -- get lost." He would never say, "Ya jerky bastard...
...what proposals? Democrats wanted to use the dread T word somewhere in the statement, but their counterparts preferred something fuzzier. Everyone concurred on "increased tax revenues" in the wan hope, on the White House side, that this compromise might put a fig leaf over what was being said...