Word: whining
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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...
...literature / Just don’t read ‘Jane Eyre.’” Producer David Newfeld (Broken Social Scene) places the vocals at the front of the mix throughout the album. This puts the focus very much on the contrast between the flat whine of Gareth Campesinos! and the much sweeter voice of Aleksandra Campesinos!. Opener “Death to Los Campesinos!” (I warned you about the exclamation marks) is particularly effective as the pair alternate lines, including the delicious opening couplet, “Broken down like the war economy...
...have kids, you'd be applying these techniques? Oh yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely. The biggest thing they showed me is how easily and unintentionally you can encourage behavior you don't want by giving it attention. I have friends who have basically trained their kids to whine by always responding to it. Or the classic is that kids don't get any attention when they're behaving nicely, and then the moment they're not, they get a ton of attention...
...have noticed: There are some people on this campus who like to complain. They whine, they cry, they spam the open lists; in every discussion, Lacoste-sporting Harvard undergraduates form up into a bourgeois proletariat, for whom angry emails have replaced manifestos. They are defiantly, eternally dissatisfied—it doesn’t matter why—and many spend their hours insisting upon an urgent need for some type of “change”; though, again, they never take the unattractive step of defining what that change means. It’s like a Barack Obama...