Word: dryness
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...what at first seemed like a special effect--the fact that her vibrato began only after half of each note was done--carried through the entire performance. Passages occasionally surfaced in which she was more relaxed and lyrical, but in general, these would relapse all too soon into ascetic dryness...
...wetting the work of dryness but of its opposite...
...weather experts point out that there are no records of back-to-back nationwide droughts. In Ohio and Indiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, and the snowpacks of the Rockies, the grim dryness seems at last to have been broken. But in the Missouri River basin and the Pacific Northwest and along parts of the East Coast, the debilitating moisture deficits remain...
...Then what? Malard shrugs. The last good rain he felt on his face was in August 1987. In March of this year a 10-in. blizzard roared in and hit his area. He waited it out in his house, daring to hope that this was a break in the dryness and that a normal spring of rain would follow. It did not. Instead came the heat and the wind. Malard gets up every morning by 6 and checks the sky and looks at the thermometer outside his window. He tunes in radio station KFYR in Bismarck for the weather reports...
Flagging libido and sexual ability have also been wrongly equated with advancing years. Women supposedly lose interest in sex after menopause; in fact, desire normally remains strong throughout life. The dampening of sexual urges often results from physical problems, such as hot flashes and vaginal dryness, which may be alleviated by estrogen therapy, lubricants and attention to nutrition and exercise. Older men, for their part, routinely accept continued impotence as normal. It is not. As a man ages, he does need more time to achieve an erection. But almost all impotence, whether psychological or physical, is reversible. Among the common...