Word: wayward
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...Gorazde. Rather, the focus is still on somehow convincing the Serbs to come back to the negotiating table. The flaw in this strategy is manifest: why should the Serbs negotiate when they can take their prize at very low cost? The West still insists on treating the Serbs as wayward youths rather than the war criminals they...
...nature is awesome in terms of power and might, humankind is totally awesome. Enter a mighty metal flying machine. A day-tripper, perhaps tooling above the beach in his singleprop vintage WW1 aeroplane. The plane chugged miraculously onward soaring like a machinated hawk. For brief moments we three wayward Spring Breakers were spellbound by this wonder of the modern world...
...death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. The father luxuriates in a torpid guilt. Upstairs Grandma intones prayers for the family dead. Downstairs the couple's three boys make mischief. The youngest taunts Mui with merciless glee; he is just about the only sign of wayward life in this house-and-garden mausoleum...
...that from our optimistic corner we could discuss that fountain and think about drinking those five kegs of beer. We then heard that on this "remarkably calm and peaceful day" in Sarajevo, as one foreign reporter put it, "only" 18 people, including three children, were wounded by "a few wayward bullets." Truly a peaceful...
...superlatives. I'll Do Anything is better than the Mona Lisa. It's also pretty darned fine as a movie, though it takes a while to find its pace and tone. You won't miss the songs; this is not the husk of a musical. It is a lovely, wayward comedy in high Jim Brooks style, with all his pinwheeling wit and edgy ruminations. Who needs production numbers? I'll Do Anything still sings...