Word: mood
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...prime minister in any mood to placate his critics. In addition to criticizing the U.S. military, al-Maliki on Wednesday also publicly slapped down U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad. He dismissed suggestions - made a day earlier by Khalilzad - that Iraqi political parties had agreed to timetables for dealing with the violence. "No one has the right to impose a timetable" on the Iraqi government, he said...
...plays its games in New Jersey, and not New York. Coincidence? I don’t think so.): “You play to win the game.” Herm is right, but I’m sure that if he’d been in a better mood at that infamous press conference a few years back, he’d have also said: “You try to space out your wins against a single team so as to not make it too tough on them...
...Chinese musician Zhou Long, set to some Chinese poems about drinking too much. Here, the HRO joined Ma and his string quartet in an intricate and difficult piece. According to Ma, the final eight chords sounded like “drunk men falling down.” Though the mood was lighthearted—there were numerous references to the aptness of playing those pieces in Sanders, as the Queens Head Pub will shortly open in the basement of Memorial Hall—the music was serious and beautiful, and the larger purpose of the Silk Road Project evident...
...BGLTSA and College Democrats debaters were accompanied by polite and enthusiastic applause for the largely out-supported Salient and CSA. The questions asked of both sides by the audience were concise, respectful, and honest. No traps were laid, and no jeering interrupted speakers from either side. The mood was curious, not combative, and although everybody must have disagreed with at least one idea put out by the debaters, the air of civility and mutual respect was maintained...
...certainly aided the development of political art. The new group of film tragedies—which also includes “All the King’s Men” and “The Last King of Scotland”—incite speculation as to the mood of the countries these films reflect...