Word: wimpish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WORST The Starr report. O.K., news junkies lapped it up, and TV talking heads droned on about it, but the Starr report was a pretty pallid piece of work. Wimpish hero, insecure heroine, pizza, thong underwear, a cigar. What in the world has happened to romances...
...trying to imply that a contest in which some brute is permitted to pound his opponent into submission by nearly any means at his disposal--a knee to the groin, a stomp on the nose--is, when all is said and done, slightly wimpish. I certainly mean no disrespect to those who participate in Ultimate Fighting and may list their hobbies as "beating smart alecks to a pulp...
...young prostitute: one moment she is undoing a belt buckle in businesslike manner, at another she is giggly and talkative while eating a piece of bread slathered in sweetness. Harvey Keitel is the epitome of the slimy pimp--he claimed to have rehearsed with actual specimens. His wimpish bravado and bared arms give him the appearance of an evil ape. With their mindless office banter, Cybill Shepherd and Albert Brooks (playing Betsy's friend in the office) ably demonstrates the fatiguing triviality of the world. Finally, a supporting cast provides a range of characters to fit each sordid niche Travis...
THEY WHINE ABOUT THEIR NEglectful, misunderstanding parents. They are snotty with one another and sullen in the face of authority. Sometimes they are arrogant, sometimes they are wimpish, all the time they are horny. They are, in short, 1960s preppies, tiresome enough at the time and hardly less so in retrospect...