Word: whining
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...never heard Jay or Tune complain,” sophomore Jeff Lee said. “They never whine and when times get tough, they put their heads down and battle through it. They keep us on our goal of getting to the Eastern finals...
...Right about now is when you whine, “But Harvard’s not good at sports,” and get up from the breakfast table, spilling half-finished coffee all over my column photo before running off to your Science A core (if you have any suggestions on what class to take, my e-mail is at the bottom of this story...
...perspectives the most obvious issues are exhaustion and overwork. Emergency-room patients are dryly referred to as "volumes" because of "the way they fill our fixed space" and because of "the volume of noise that we actually hear ... the crying of the child, the belligerence of drunkenness, the thin whine of a failed suicide." And there is a jaded professionalism in the med-school lesson recalled by Fitzgerald during a long night shift: "Always sit down with the patient. It makes it seem like you've spent more time and that you care. If you give this impression (this...
Courtney Hunt is a spare writer and a very objective director. Her film is all show, no tell. It doesn't whine or speechify or make liberal-minded, quasi-political appeals for relief of its characters' hard lives. She lets us come to care for Ray at our own unforced pace, and Leo plays superbly in that patient vein. There's nothing overtly heroic about her as she plods forward under her burden of her small-scale dreams. She's not cynical, but she's not expecting much, either. She's just knowing and accepting of what fate, good...
...locally grown foods and some original thinking, HUDS has done more than its fair share for a greener Harvard. We hope that other students will not forget the environment in their conversations with the Advisory Council. Students should not take sessions with the Advisory Council merely as opportunities to whine and dine. Constructive criticism is always preferable to unrealistic requests that would be hard for HUDS to swallow. For example, students have always yearned for longer dining hall hours, but this is beating a long-dead horse. Another recommendation is to consolidate the House dining halls into two massive messes...