Word: whining
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...Small Victory: Songs of Faith and Redemption," I discovered a batch of female folk artists who, even in their sometimes cliched anguish over lost love, came out as women who knew the value and pain of an honest day's labor. All too ready to dismiss this as another whine-fest on my way in, I instead was caught up with the crowd in wildly applauding the willowy Dee Carstensen strumming her harp siren-style and wailing in a thin voice reminiscent of Sixpence None the Richer. But these women were no naifs. Cheryl Wheeler's crystal clear voice whispered...
...says "Show me your [breasts] anymore." There's no more unnecessary excess of women and booze backstage. It pisses me off, because that's what I though being a rock star was about, not "We got tofu on the deli tray." I want to hear somebody bitch and whine because they lost an eight-ball of coke behind their couch, not "Who drank the last bottle of spring water...
Bell is a throwback. Unlike other broadcast biggies, he doesn't bully his callers or sensationalize his material. He knows it's sensational enough, so he sells it with a soothing baritone and the coaxing, folksy manner of a modern Arthur Godfrey. He doesn't whine or blurt, even if melodrama is swirling around him. When Bell abruptly left Coast to Coast last October for three weeks and took another hiatus this April, he showed old-fashioned reserve in keeping his private anguish private...
...educational philosophy of Resnick's editorial but its general attitude. When one has the chance to spend four years largely isolated from the demands of the modern economy, to study and to live with a few thousand other young students, it seems remarkably selfish to whine about "customer service." This is not to say that students should be cowed into gratitude and never ask anything from Harvard. One would hope, however, that when they do demand something, it might be for people other than themselves...
...educational philosophy of Resnick's editorial but its general attitude. When one has the chance to spend four years largely isolated from the demands of the modern economy, to study and to live with a few thousand other young students, it seems remarkably selfish to whine about "customer service." This is not to say that students should be cowed into gratitude and never ask anything from Harvard. One would hope, however, that when they do demand something, it might be for people other than themselves...