Word: weaker
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While the Democratic party remains the primary representative of the left on a national level, campus liberalism seems to be fragmented among a variety of groups and causes, leaving the Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats much weaker than their national counterparts...
...Vermont is a weaker team, but it was still a good win for us," Leary said. "We played a sound game and we are ready now for the weekend...
...report, then, that on his new album, Pilgrim (Reprise), Clapton sounds weaker than he has in years. It's a compromised, blues-tinged pop-rock album, with drippy melodies and cautious, manicured guitar solos. What it reminds one of is this: on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, amid the high-fashion shops and trendy eateries, there's a House of Blues restaurant/nightclub that's designed to look like a rural, rusted tin shack. Frankly, it looks stupid and out of place. Listening to Pilgrim, one gets the same feeling--there's no room for blues roughness on this...
...even the weaker films are fascinating for what they reveal about the processes of making interpretive art. As Ma says during a discussion with Morris, "I think that what this music is attempting to describe is something that can take all of the imagination of lots of people put together, and still it's trying to describe something that we can't quite grasp." That living, ineffable something about Bach's music, of course, is what makes it art; if you could pin that down, the music would wither. One imagines the same might be true...
...played like a team that was overconfident today," Beachy said. "We were strong at certain points, but we knew we were going against a weaker team. We needed to focus more, and we could have played a lot better...