Word: wanly
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...Blow-Up,” and “Pulp Fiction.” The newest entry added to this list of historic cinema is Ken Loach’s “The Wind That Shakes The Barley,” an incredibly wan and uninspired drama chronicling the Irish Civil War of the 1920s. Although the Cannes jury embraced the film, the latest offering from the veteran British award-winning filmmaker falls far below expectations. Named after a 19th century Irish folk song, “Barley” follows Damien (Cillian Murphy...
...where you go to donate your pint and nobody takes the needle out and you're strapped to the gurney unable to do anything but watch your life drip away. It's that kind of movie: enervating, draining, sucking. Though the movie has some laughable lines, it's so wan you will not be roused to so much as a snicker...
...another month or so," says Jiang Yulan, a trading aficionado, "but in a long term, the price will be going up by the end of this year." So confident are the assembled san hu that they don't even consider trading to be serious business. Instead, they use wan, the Chinese word for "play," to describe their activity. If the market tanks, the san hu won't be the first to discover that investing is not a game...
...confident are the assembled san hu that they don't regard their activity as serious business. They use wan, Chinese for "play," to describe it. If the market tanks, the san hu won't be the first to discover that investing is not a game...
...left with such wan and infrequent holidays today? The answer, simply put, is that in one historical setting after another, traditional celebrations were deliberately suppressed. The ancient Roman lite slaughtered worshippers of Dionysus with as much zeal as when, in later years, they went after Christians. Reformation Protestants criminalized carnival. Wahhabist Muslims, the ideological antecedents of al-Qaeda, battled ecstatic Sufism...