Or as the great molecular biologist Jacques Monod dourly noted
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"They're all very timeless," she said, adding a bit dourly.
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"A Ghost Story" is suspenseful, dourly funny and at times piercingly emotional.
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Each song is a labyrinth with hairpin-turn episodes and lyrics full of dourly corrosive observations.
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He appears dourly dispossessed and wearing a giant poofy thing around his waist, something like an inner tube.
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"I feel a little bit like jack-in-the-box," Mr. Kirk, wearing a starched white shirt and purple tie, said dourly.
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"The financial impact of both deals combined is likely to weigh on operating margins over the next few years," he dourly predicts.
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It contrasts dourly with Jackson's tragicomic novel, which pours ridicule on the bumptious scientist/ghostbuster who leads the expedition to the spooky house.
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Instead of something alarming and thrilling like "On Sight," ye begins with Kanye dourly monologuing about wanting to kill an unknown person and then himself.
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Into their home comes Leanne (Nell Tiger Free), a mysterious, dourly serious live-in nanny, who pretty quickly arouses suspicion by Sean and Dorothy's brother ("Harry Potter's" Rupert Grint).
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Walking past them, you might reasonably worry that you're about to be harangued, dourly, from the stage, where Ms. Oh stands on a soapbox as the crowd filters in.
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As she settled into brunch, the once notoriously thorny star was friendly, even downright cozy, as she talked up her current project, "The Lovers," a dourly comic look at marriage (it opened Friday), and began to reminisce.
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The tangerines at the supermarket might be suspiciously fresh, but what we see of the rest of the inventory isn't terribly impressive: The shelves are mostly empty, and Martha isn't the only one looking dourly at her choices.
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At his funeral, in South Africa, Obama encountered Raúl Castro, greeted him, and shook his hand—the first public handshake between leaders of their two countries since 1959, when Nixon posed dourly with Fidel at the White House.
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The AFC Championship game is promising as a contest between football teams, but is also a prisoner of ancient debates that were long ago humped to death—imagine a thousand neckless men dourly circling the word "elite" on a Telestrator, forever.
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In this movie's first scene he's hanging out with other Somali immigrants, who chat in a mix of languages about their hard-knock lives — "You're a Somali and a Muslim, no one's gonna hire you," one dourly observes — and he reacts badly when he's singled out for mockery.
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Starting with ancient Greek individualism and conceptions of the heroic, we progress through the "dourly introspective" Christian self, the contributions of "Sigi" (Freud) and some of his rival therapists, and on to ruminations by some recent neuroscientists and philosophers who suggest that the self, and its supposedly free will, are more or less a myth.
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Mrs. Dourly (Robin Duke) was originally a substitute teacher in Betty's art class and a scout leader but in later seasons is Betty's regular teacher.
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Singaperumal knows that Gajendran is a vicious and unpredictable adversary, and the venture is risky and likely to become messy. He decides to pass. Pasupathi dourly suggests Singaperumal is getting old and rusty. He asks Singaperumal to loan him the 50 lakh so he can do the job himself.
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Indians batted dourly to save the match. Jayantilal took three and a half hours for his 57 while Viswanath took two and a half for his 38. Indians were only 29 ahead when the seventh wicket fell and eighty minutes remained. Kirmani and D. Govindraj played out the time.
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"Wilmington, Michael (September 27, 1985). "Invasion U.S.A." Los Angeles Times. Part VI, p. 8. Paul Attanasio of The Washington Post wrote, "'Invasion USA' might actually be fun in a campy way if it weren't so dourly exploitative", and called Norris "an actor whose most evocative facial expression is his beard.
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The novels are populated with an array of acquaintances, colleagues, criminals, and the occasional walk-on, which together present a spectrum of the Italian national character. The author often uses minor characters to demonstrate the Italian penchant for labyrinthine and sometimes obfuscatory dialogue. Having grown up under Fascism and having lost a brother in the partisan war of 1943-45, Piero Trotti is cynical yet dourly optimistic. By the fifth novel this optimism is in scant evidence.
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To the Monkeybird's confusion, Daffy leaves him at the altar by putting him in his own wedding ring before leaving with Porky for town on an airplane fashioned from the treasure chest. Crash landing back home, they open the chest to behold a valuable golden egg inside. To their chagrin, they discover that the treasure is actually the dozens of offspring of the Monkeybird, after which Porky dourly remarks to as the curse they were warned about.
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In a small Georgia town in 1948, Buster Lane (Jan-Michael Vincent) is a handsome, popular high-school senior, who is engaged to be married to his pretty, popular high-school sweetheart Margie Hooks (Pamela Sue Martin). He is the 'big man on campus' and the leader of his group of friends. Buster's friends often visit a girl from an underprivileged background named Billie-Jo Truluck (Joan Goodfellow), who dourly gives them the sexual favors they want. Meanwhile, Buster becomes disenchanted with Margie's refusal to have sex with him, and begins seeing Billie in secret.
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They were broadcast live in their entirety by C-SPAN, with CNN and the network news programs showing segments of the testimonies. At the opening of the hearings, as The Washington Post would later write, "the senators sat dourly alongside one another in a long row, a visual suggestive of co-defendants in a rogues' docket." Overall, McCain would later write, "The hearings were a public humiliation." The committee reported on the other four senators in February 1991, but delayed its final report on Cranston until November 1991.
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This resulted in an official announcement by Hương and Khánh three days later, in which the military again reiterated their commitment to civilian rule through an elected legislature and a new constitution, and that "all genuine patriots" would be "earnestly assembled" to collaborate in making a plan to defeat the communists. The Americans were not impressed with the statement, which was shown to Taylor before it was made public; the State Department dourly announced that "it appears to represent some improvement to the situation".Shaplen, p. 298. Nevertheless, Khánh and Taylor were both signatories to this January 9 announcement.
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After they leave, Otto, hoping to foster faith and courage, leads everyone in a Hanukkah song. In January 1944, Anne, on the threshold of womanhood, begins to attract Peter's attention. When Miep brings the group a cake, Dussell and Van Daan bicker over the size of their portions and Van Daan asks Miep to sell Petronella's fur coat so that he can buy cigarettes. After Kraler warns that one of his employees asked for a raise and implied that something strange is going on in the attic, Dussell dourly comments that it is just a matter of time before they are discovered.
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This resulted in an official announcement by Hương and Khánh three days later, in which the military again reiterated their commitment to civilian rule through an elected legislature and a new constitution, and that "all genuine patriots" would be "earnestly assembled" to collaborate in making a plan to defeat the communists. The Americans were unimpressed with the statement, which was shown to Taylor before it was made public; the State Department dourly announced that "it appears to represent some improvement to the situation".Shaplen, p. 298. The South Vietnamese won in large part because the Americans had spent so much on the country, and could not afford to abandon it and lose to the communists over the matter of military rule, as it would be a big public relations coup for the Soviet bloc.
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Australia smelt a route and were pressing the attack on all fronts with hostile bowling from an almost unplayable Alderman and an up-tempo Lawson. When either of them tired, England's 'relief' came in the form of pure intimidation from Merv Hughes, and Hohns, who was turning the ball well on a fairly even track. All seemed lost for England until a defiant Jack Russell, ably supported by spinner John Emburey set about first blunting, and then when the opportunity arose, attacking the Australian bowlers. It was slow going, and often dourly defensive, but Russell and Emburey weathered the Australian attack, and set about adding to the total when they could. By stumps they had crawled along to 123 for 6, Russell not out on 47 and Emburey on 22. A vital partnership of 64 restoring some credibility to an England team threatening to collapse completely.
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After fifteen years of military dictatorship and facing considerable international pressure, Chile's regime asks the public of Chile to vote in the national plebiscite of 1988 on whether General Augusto Pinochet should stay in power for another eight years, or whether there should be an open democratic presidential election the following year. René Saavedra, a successful advertisement creator, is approached by the "No" side to consult on their proposed advertising. Behind the back of his politically conservative boss, Saavedra agrees to participate and finds that the advertising is a dourly unappealing litany of the regime's abuses created by an organization that has no confidence in its efforts. Enticed by the marketing challenge and his own loathing of Pinochet's tyranny, he proposes to the advertising subcommittee that they take a lighthearted, upbeat promotional approach stressing abstract concepts like "joy" to challenge concerns that voting in a referendum under a notoriously brutal military junta would be politically meaningless and dangerous.
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" The critic wrote that Churchill's "concentrated dramatization of their lives has an open, poetic intensity that transcends the flat tendentiousness of mere agitprop." In 2004, Paul Taylor of The Independent argued of the play, "It's amazing how much detail and insight Churchill manages to pack into a succession of spare, short scenes that here succeed each other with a heightened, dream-like fluency. The effect is a haunting blend of intimacy (often dourly comic) and (with roles deliberately cast regardless of age and looks) objectifying defamiliarisation." In 2011, academic Jill Dolan wrote that Fen "represents the British feminist playwright at her best". She praised set pieces such as the dirt covering the playing area: "Even when scenes move to various characters’ homes or other social settings, the dirt remains, a palpable reminder that these people are always mired in the manual labor that provides their only livelihood." The critic argued that "Churchill doesn’t lay individual blame, but constructs a social constellation in which each character is interdependent with the others, even if their access to power and wealth differently marks their experience.
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Matthew Martens wrote in Perfect Sound Forever that "Nine Funerals of the Citizen King" was Henry Cow's first political statement, and they sing "dourly (and cryptically) of the gulf separating democracy's pomp and spectacle from the real-life horrors of consumer capitalism." Piekut stated that Hodgkinson's "lyrical reference to Gertrude Stein in the arresting 'chorus' section" was a turning point in Henry Cow's approach when they moved from "a zany fascination with the historical avant-garde of Dada and surrealism" to "a more sober, Marxist analysis of contemporary society and a Brechtian relationship to artistic production." Paul Stump suggested in The Music's All that Matters: A History of Progressive Rock that Dadaism is still at the heart of the song: "Down beneath the spectacle of free" refers to Debord, and "Said the Mama of Dada as long ago as 1919" alludes to the year the movement was born in Zürich. In The Billboard Guide to Progressive Music, Bradley Smith said Henry Cow delivers the song's "impossibly off-the-wall didactic lyrics" with "deadpan vocals".
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