Word: seemly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...that rose up to guard its rejection of his troublemaking. Another autarch actually took a turn toward benevolence all on his own: North Korea's quirky Kim Jong Il reached out kindly to the previously abhorred, non-communist South, summiting gaily with its leader and making Korea's pacification seem, suddenly, like a living prospect. Changes in Russia were more ambiguous as the blank-faced Vladimir Putin took charge. He was at least a sober antidote to the fitful Boris Yeltsin, but his unmoved reaction to the submarine Kursk's demise and his unapologetic bludgeoning of Chechnya showed...
...share all your worries with your children, particularly the youngest ones. No matter how precocious they seem, they are not psychologically equipped to deal with both your problems and theirs...
...today's kids so stressed? Twenge cites two main culprits: increasing physical isolation--brought on by high divorce rates and less involvement in community, among other things--and a growing perception that the world is a more dangerous place. This latter point might seem laughable to anyone who remembers the Cuban missile crisis or the Vietnam War. But when it comes to emotions, perceptions often loom larger than reality...
...tech production is underwhelming to a fault. Characters are typically surrounded by darkness, as sets are wheeled in and out--a window, a chair, a broken chestnut tree. John Napier's design is often handsome, in its burnished browns and greens, but he and Caird don't seem up to the story's more difficult physical challenges: a fire set in Rochester's bedroom in the middle of the night, or Jane's first encounter with Rochester, when he is thrown from a horse on his way home. If you can't find a way to stage a horse accident...
...protagonist] may, by modern standards, seem bloodthirsty and deluded, but [the] poetry makes eloquently persuasive the hero's tragic stature...