Word: yawningly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...intensely aware of others’ unspeakable distress than I was just a few months ago, less a victim to the desensitization that affects all of us as we see the news flashing dead bodies in front of our faces. Now it’s no longer easy to yawn or change the channel when the news turns to brutality far from home. Perhaps most importantly, I am cognizant of the need to break through the impatient flurry of 24-hour news, and I am driven to seek genuine human contact before finishing with a story...
...Spur,” “Hold Up,” and “Top Yourself” all feel like second-rate Stripes songs, and Benson’s vocal and instrumental contributions to each are inoffensive at best and crippling at worst. The lyrics yawn, their pasteboard depth most evident on the utterly directionless “You Don’t Understand Me” (“And there’s always another point of view, / A better way to do the things we do, / And how can you know...
...promotional push on an awards show that people didn't watch? Multiply this negative number by the missed opportunities for stars' late-night flackery on Leno, Kimmel and The Daily Show - all being boycotted by the actors' union - and the result may be a big, mass-audience yawn that will hurt the indie films' chance to make a few bucks...
...prestige of the performers. Tickets to the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic in January were snatched up as soon as they became available. In fact, the high cost of tickets for top-quality concerts keep many music lovers away - and encourage the nouveau riche to attend and yawn in their expensive seats...
...stabilization in Anbar province, Iraq is selling like California real estate and Chinese toys, and foreign affairs have quickly become Perino's weak spot. Before becoming deputy to McClellan, Snow's predecessor, her experience was in domestic issues. When hit with tough questions on Iraq, Perino often reverts to yawn-inducing talking points. In late September, defending Bush's decision to go to war, she droned, "Saddam Hussein decided to defy the international community. All diplomatic measures ran their course. And what we are focused on now is making sure that Iraq can be a government that can sustain...