Word: warmness
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Just as Dulles had done in the '50s, the U.S. was again drawing a line in the dust and warning the bad guys not to cross it. It is questionable that even in their most expansionist phase, the Soviets ever seriously considered a grab for the oil and warm-water ports of the gulf. But if they did, it is certain they took very seriously indeed the risk that they would end up in a war with the U.S. In short, they were deterred...
...social context" to serve as a judge, but that concern dissipated once Merrill got to know him. Former girlfriend Fink says, "Having never married, I know everyone is wondering does he have the empathy to understand women's issues. He's not all brain. He's a friendly, warm person and extremely considerate." His former colleague Rath says, "David is the kind of person who will visit a clerk who is in the hospital or attend the funeral of the mother of one of his employees." On Sundays, Souter wheels an aged churchgoer across the street to the general store...
...strikes people as "radical," as though it were the result of some exacting distillation. But it is thin and complacent, tarted up with costly materials for the audience of consumers whose pretensions it affects to despise. Its bathos (LACK OF CHARISMA CAN BE FATAL) might have issued from the warm heart of some Midwestern creative- writing course. Her phrasing (IDEALS ARE REPLACED BY CONVENTIONAL GOALS AT A CERTAIN AGE) is like a Hallmark card rewritten in academe. Holzer may sometimes remind you of Seneca (EXPIRING FOR LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL BUT STUPID) and sometimes of Bakunin (PRIVATE PROPERTY CREATED CRIME...
Kohl accomplished his diplomatic feats by relying on the same skills that have put him on warm terms with a number of world leaders. He started out badly with Gorbachev in 1986, comparing the Soviet leader's public relations talents with those of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. When Kohl met with Gorbachev in Moscow last February, the two were civil to each other, nothing more. This time Kohl asked if part of his trip could be spent in Gorbachev's home region of Stavropol and the nearby spas, where the two leaders might relax and get to know each...
There is no real acting, either. Moore's performance consists largely of tilting her pretty chin up and looking bewildered and tilting her chin up and looking weepy. Swayze knits his brow a lot. And Goldberg, well, she's Goldberg. She makes funny faces, complains frequently, and is warm-hearted and engaging. And completely out of place in a mystery thriller...