Word: weaknessness
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Princeton began the match by taking two of the three doubles matches to grab the doubles point, taking advantage of a persistent Crimson weakness.
Perhaps Coupland's ambiguity is intentional. Certainly, he succeeds in part in capturing the ethos of a generation raised on cartoons and sound bites. But leaving characterization open to infinite interpretation signals an undeniable weakness, even laziness, on the part of the author.
Much of Life After God is well-written. Like Ian McEwan, Coupland has a particular talent for capturing ennui. In "Little Creatures," the narrator muses: "The nomadic lifestyle had taken its toll. I had been feeling permanently on the cusp of a flu, feeling at the point where I just...
But it does raise anew the oddly unnerving specter of Carter, in his sensible shoes and armor of self-righteousness, tackling the world's diplomatic problems one by one. How does this private citizen, whose own presidency sank under accusations of weakness and appeasement, manage to make himself a force...
It can be argued rather persuasively that such descriptions are now unconscionable, that fiction should be a genteel escape from the encroaching horrors of contemporary life rather than a blueprint for more of the same. The weakness of this case is that it denies narrative art its taproot into the...