| 单词 | wan |
| 例句 | The sergeant looked at the wan figure before him, at the watery pink eyes behind the bifocals, at the dry lips through the white goatee. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Between that, studying for her classes, and the unusually long, wet winter, she had grown wan and pale and sometimes depressed, so she luxuriated in the fresh air and bright sunlight on the ferry. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z During the final weeks, he began to look a little wan and even skinnier than usual, chewing his Nicorette with unusual vigor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Mademoiselle was poking at a rusty stove that smoked a little and wanned the room indifferently. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The shadows of bars lay across the tiny patch of light; instead of brightening the cell, the wan rays made it appear only more grim and closed in. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z This will always be the color of Westchester for me, that wan gray, the kind of gray that speaks of an impenetrable wealth, never too fancy. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked older than she could possibly have been, and she was very thin, just skin and bones, with a wan, yellow complexion and neglected, nicotine- stained hands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom tosses me a final wan smile—I love you, but I remain disappointed—and shuts the door. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Ignatius kicked the little door closed, as if he were playing to wan in a professional football game, neatly severing a protruding hot dog into two six-inch sections. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z However, Emily Tallis wanted to share only tiny frets about the household, or she lay back against the pillows, her expression unreadable in the gloom, emptying her cup in wan silence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Not precisely royal fare, but nourishing; it tasted good enough and wanned the belly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the wan, dreary afternoons Gogol goes running. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the wan light that might have been evening and might have been dawn I contemplated the clean amber liquid. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “So I work for a relief agency,” she said, wanning up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks pale and wan, but healthy enough. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The sight brought a wan smile to her lips. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She grinned as she took a bite of the vanilla cone while Ophie gave her a wan smile. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Now her faint eyebrows lifted, the corners of her mouth rose, crinkling the wan cheeks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There’s no question it’s her, though she’s wan, squinty, and decidedly worse for wear. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Thomas followed him to the steel door of the big concrete block and Minho turned to give him a wan smile. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z A wan reflection of myself, white wings, brown ponytail and all, ghosted over the landscape. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z She sat holding it in her hand, while the music penetrated her whole being like an effulgence, wanning and brightening the dark places of her soul. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mark of Athena...She resisted the urge to check her pocket, but she could feel the silver coin growing wanner—the cursed gift from her mother. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “And don’t order the Philly cheese steak sandwich unless you want to puke all night,” said a wan but heartfelt voice from a shadowy bunk in the corner. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Jake grins, but it’s a wan smile; there’s no heart behind it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She was wearing dirty jeans and a wan pink T-shirt; her face thin and bleached-looking, with huge pupils. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Gonzalez produced a wan smile and watched Ignatius open his greasy brown paper bag. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The grass was paler than she remembered, a wan and sickly green on the verge of going yellow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It did not sing, but sat mournfully silent, its feathers ruffled and wan. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z In among the press of all the ghosts, there he was, his familiar features wan but his expression as full of delight as a ghost could be. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He flicked it on, and a wan yellow glow illuminated the barn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Another day,” the doctor said, and in spite of his appearance his voice was wan. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to the salon with my friends in quotes,” she would say, a wan laughter in her eyes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Johnny Ray Johnson gave Tony a wan smile, then without warning, swung his arm back and punched Tony directly in the stomach. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The window was the same, open only a crack, and the wan sunlight lit up the blade of a chopping knife on the table. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Jake grins, but it’s a wan smile; there’s no heart behind it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The sky was still wan and gray and refused to clear. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Around noon, when the air had wanned, Frightful gave the little eyas the last bites of the rat. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z His skin looked wan, and his voice sounded weak and hoarse. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z A makeshift signal flag—a red knitted leg wanner of the sort worn by dancers— was knotted to the end of an alder branch by the vehicle's rear exit. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He started sweating and his complexion turned wan. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he could even climb down from his horse, Frey was there, even more pale and even more wan than when he had left him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The steel gleamed strangely bright in the wan sunlight, now red, now yellow, now blazing white. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The last time he had seen her, just before they left port, her eyes had been raw from crying, two ghastly red holes in a wan, pale face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her wan, scornful mouth smiled and so I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Outside, Dill appeared even more wan and pale than usual under the blackening sky. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z At the very least, I thought he'd look like his mother—blonde and wan and cold to the bone. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Around it are wide wastes, wan and cold, and meadows of asphodel, presumably strange, pallid, ghostly flowers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The sergeant turned to the wan little policeman. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A wan sun came onto his face, making the black skin shine like dull metal; the sun left and the quiet room filled with deep shadows. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Her skin gray, wan, robbed of its luminous sheen by the neon station light. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the barn three bodies hanging from the rafters, dried and dusty among the wan slats of light. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z After a moment, he lifted and spread them, as if wanning them by the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And the Domish sun was hotter than the pale, wan sun of Norvos, glaring down from a blue sky day after day. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "I want order down there," Supercargo boomed, "and if there's white folks down there, I wan's double order." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z "Now YOU're started on the subject," she answered with a wan smile. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The memory brought a wan smile to her face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There was a black look in the sky, and the sun was wan. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She gave a wan smile that didn’t touch her frightened eyes at all. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His arms ached, but he continued stroking, even as his mind wan dered. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Ignatius said, watching the wan little policeman try to control the old man. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked wan and her eyes were puffy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Belmonte looked ahead, his face wan and yellow, his long wolf jaw out. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The doorknob turns, and Alex opens his eyes to find Henry, holding two mugs and smiling a wan, unreadable smile. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Pollard, wan and frail, sat in a wheelchair and waited for them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s smudging mascara under her eyes to look exhausted and wan. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z My dad gives my mom a wan smile. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I was curious about what she held but didn’t wan to press her for too many secrets at once. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z ‘None of yer prate, now,’ say the surgeons, ‘there’s wan thing which can be done, and that same thing is to keep from all unnatural excitement from this time forward.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The glossy pictures had all been torn from magazines, a collection of pale, blond, hipless women with aquiline noses, bony legs, blank eyes, and thin, wan smiles. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z "I saw Sansa at the court, the day Tyrion told me his terms. She looked most beautiful, my lady. Perhaps a, a bit wan. Drawn, as it were." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Against the wan walls and the luminous pavement of the road Frodo could see them, small black figures in rank upon rank, marching swiftly and silently, passing outwards in an endless stream. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Lexie herself was back at school, wan and somewhat subdued and with dark rings under her eyes, but upright. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Faintly he could make out a strip of wan, greyish light filtering in. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Will they grow wan and weak, with witheredflanks and shrunken wings? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Aside from Empire State’s giggle, which was wholehearted, it had seemed to Milkman then that the laughter was wan and nervous. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of Winterfell brought a wan smile to his face. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Except for the T Man, the group was pretty wan, the action scenes mostly ordinary and the whole series a diversion from the Team's essential mission. A B-Plus for The A-Team 2010-06-12T19:55:00Z “I don’t feel so good,” he says, looking wan and searching for the exit. A New Leader at New York Theater Ballet and a Call for New Audiences 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z A look is being favored that is slender, frail, a little wan and a bit feminine, and yet with a distinct streetwise toughness. | Oh, Man 2014-03-08T02:35:49Z She got another wan female lead as a British princess in Roman Scandals, with Cantor cavorting in a minitoga and blackface. 'Titanic' Star Gloria Stuart Dies at 100 2010-09-29T08:55:00Z A wan parody of noirish detective flicks of yore, “Cloak and Dagger” has as its stock in trade uninspired show tunes interrupted by blue quips denoting an age before political correctness. ‘Cloak and Dagger’: Lame and lamer Martin Bernheimer concurred in The Los Angeles Times, calling the performance “all too prim and wan.” Keep Going, Keep Going, Even at the Met 2011-04-03T02:14:50Z The first monologue hits air pockets of wan laughter — maybe the audience was unsure what to expect, maybe it was jarred by the contrast between the grim subject matter and the punch lines. Review: How Do You Solve ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z These Deep-Fried wings were wan and anemic-looking after the first fry, so I was pleased when they turned fairly golden after their second dip into the oil. The absolute best way to make buffalo wings, according to so many tests 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z “Me wan’ go home” is perhaps as universal a plea for freedom as we’ve got. Harry Belafonte and the Social Power of Song 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Camellias as pink as ballet slippers perked up the wan landscape. Dallas is the most affordable go-to travel destination for 2015 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Spectacular technological advances — weaponry that’s more precise and less deadly — have combined with a lack of moral vision to induce a wan sense of complacency. The Dangers of Making War Less Dangerous 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z This is a potentially chilling subject, yet the work, as seen on Friday, treats its theme with wan whimsy. Review: ‘Climate Control,’ Where Hot and Cold Mix It Up in a Pas de Deux 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z This has been said by others but I wan to add: was it really necessary to quote her earlier bad review in the Times. Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Desire Lines begins with a wan orchestral sigh, as though resigning itself to disappointment. Camera Obscura: Desire Lines – review 2013-05-30T20:15:01Z All was controlled, even a moment in which she shot up like an exploding kernel of corn, gesturing toward a wan idea of release. Dance Review: When Crowd Has Power of the Purse 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z First, there was an incredibly wan ceremony in March, hosted by a disengaged Jimmy Kimmel. Kevin Hart and the Academy: 2018 Gets the Messy Oscars It Deserves 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s harder to land those jokes now, and Mr. Linn-Baker seems, perhaps consequently, a little wan. Review: ‘The School for Scandal’ Is Full-Throated Satire 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z In spite of the lovingly detailed suburban ambience, interiors, gardens and clothes, the atmosphere feels torqued beyond time and history into a fairy tale theater of desire and wan hope. Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z First seen bumbling through the audience and singing karaoke standards like “Love Hurts” with the onstage band, they are gathered at a place identified by a wan neon sign as the Club of the Unloved. Kneehigh Theater's ‘Tristan & Yseult’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z The keyboards are never less than cute and the singing is so boyish and wan it makes Bernard Sumner sound like Bruce Springsteen. Trophy Wife (No 876) 2010-09-28T15:47:00Z Even at this late hour, the windows draw in a wan light from a street lamp, illuminating rows of graceful columns. L.A.'s Hauser Wirth & Schimmel is out to upend the definition of a gallery 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Who can care about the wan housewives, the pretending painted flirts, the self-deceiving middle-class mothers that these brilliant writings set out to defend or to liberate or merely to reveal? The Female Eunuch, 40 years on 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z Platters include pickles, peppers, za’atar-flecked pita and a wan tabbouleh, one of the few off notes I encountered in multiple pit stops. Taim brings falafel nirvana from New York to Georgetown 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The characters are trapped, suffocated, pushed through a story that gives them very little room or time to figure themselves out, and that finally turns their feelings into the wan stuff of fable. | 'Tyrannosaur': ?Tyrannosaur? With Peter Mullan - Review 2011-11-17T22:48:28Z There’s gut-punch potential in that line about girls and imposed maternity, but in the context of this wan production, it merely evaporates. ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Review: Older, Gentler Star-Crossed Lovers 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z The director Michael McGowan allows their gray Canadian malaise to extend into wan cinematography and drab scenery. ‘All My Puny Sorrows’ Review: Every Day, a Little Death 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z In their midst, Ms. Hall’s wan but luminous face registers like an out-of-season crocus in an ash heap. Theater Review: ‘Machinal’ Examines a Wife Driven to Kill 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z No offence to Kristen Stewart or whoever it is, but anecdotes from a movie set are going to look a little wan once he has been asked what he’s been up to recently. The Mooch makes the move into his natural habitat – late-night television 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Paul Massie is a little wan as the impotent hero, but together they played their big scene affectingly. Peter Hall eludes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof censor: from the archive, 31 January 1958 2013-01-31T07:30:00Z Some of the responsibility for the show's wan jumble of narrative choices falls to Schulman; other distractions, like those resulting from the performances, could have been mitigated by Susanne Biers' directing. "The First Lady" tells the story of three revolutionary presidents' wives in an inconsequential way 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z That pandemic-era release occupies a station in the heart and memory similar to Pratt's these days, which is to say a lot of people watched it despite its wan reviews, this writer included. Is Chris Pratt really The Worst Chris? 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z At first, the young Jo awakes from her lapsed bedside watch to empty sheets, and sprints downstairs to find a wan, smiling Beth at the breakfast table. Why Little Women should win the best picture Oscar 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z The movie is “wan and disconnected to anything that feels like real life,” Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in December. Video: A Master?s Baby Steps 2011-03-19T01:24:54Z Conversely, a kale-and-cannellini-bean soup of the day was a bowl of wan broth that bore little trace of greens or beans. The pleasures of pasta at cozy Corretto 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z She clutched an enormous white guitar, so new it gleamed even beneath wan fluorescent lights. Wynonna Judd, on Her Own 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z “Grilled fall vegetables” yield a wan vision in white: cauliflower, parsnips and onions. Where’s the party at Pizza Vinoteca? 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z A wan young British woman wakes up beside the Thames, surrounded by mangled bodies. Review: In ‘The Rook,’ a Woman Has Powers, if She Can Remember Them 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z When it tries for lightness of image, with the appearances of fairyland sprites, the creatures are wan, unbeguiling and poorly integrated into the surrounding flora. REVIEW: Maleficent: Sympathy for the Rebel 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The city’s central Chinatown has fallen on hard times; it is pockmarked with empty storefronts and dodgy hotels, grim restaurants serving wan broth. 2010-02-03T13:38:00Z Ms. Marx’s writing style seemed to be infecting mine, too, at least in a wan, subpar sort of way. Review: ‘Let’s Be Less Stupid,’ a Distracted Meditation on Absent-Mindedness 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Question 5: "So shaken as we are, so wan with care, find we a time for frighted peace to pant." Brush up your Shakespeare (in Love) 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z She’s also about to touch his scarf, but in response he’s offering very little other than a wan smile and averted eye gaze. Friends reunited: what a cast reunion photo really says 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z This is one of several reasons the wan comedy defies classic TV debates about what constitutes a reboot versus a revival. Hulu's "How I Met Your Father" is the sad cover version of a show that's best left forgotten 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z A work of impressive formal mastery and subtle thematic relationships throughout, it nonetheless left a somewhat wan impression, the material drifting by in an undifferentiated stream, like Gabriel Faure or Ernest Chausson. Violinist Kurkowicz provides break from standard fare But it’s impossible to complain that the contestants’ efforts at cuteness are generally clumsy and that their witticisms are wan because hey, they’re nerds; says so right in the title. Television Review: ‘King of the Nerds,’ TV Contest Series on TBS 2013-01-16T23:02:45Z The second is a poignant evaluation of the value of a trip that the writer already saw was doomed, stiff-upper-lipping English fortitude as a wan thread of light against the descending night. Holidays, unaccompanied: Vocal ensembles put seasoning in the ‘seasonal’ 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z It’s laughter at first sight when two strangers meet in the wan indie “Pretty Problems.” ‘Pretty Problems’ Review: A Getaway Goes Quirky 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z If there’s something wan and deflating about this, that seems to be part of Fukuyama’s point. Where Have All the Liberals Gone? 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z But from the beginning of this willfully wan, small-scale revival, directed by Leigh Silverman, Charity seems plagued by a vague awareness that becoming a doormat for men was not a good career choice. Review: A Thoroughly Modern ‘Sweet Charity’ Who Abandons Hope 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Lighthearted diversions are definitely not on the menu at the treatment center where this wan, ineffectual comedy-drama is set. | 'Family Week': Beth Henley Revival Opens at Lucille Lortel 2010-05-05T02:26:00Z But the Met Orchestra’s playing lacked precision and crispness, especially during the bustling overture, which sounded somewhat wan and limp. Review: Mark Morris’s Dancing ‘Orfeo’ Returns to the Met Opera 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z When the worm turns, however, he's wan and less convincing. 'One Day' Review: A Page Turner Becomes a Head Scratcher 2011-08-18T17:35:00Z Mostly, with his lank black hair and wan complexion, he just looked deliciously evil. Alan Rickman: A Great Voice, and So Much More 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z To make the sauce more salty and savory, an oft-discarded cheese rind can help a pot of humble beans and can enliven your wan tomato sauce, too. 16 ways to make jarred tomato sauce sooo much better 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z “Let’s be honest—we’re living in the real world,” Trump said in a wan video apology. Trump’s Locker Room Is His Safe Space 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z For decades bobal served primarily as the raw material for bulk wines produced by cooperatives, either for local consumption or export, where it was used to beef up wan reds. The Grape From Manchuela 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Appropriately, of Love & Devotion's eight tracks, half feature husky, breathy, wan vocals from Gravenhurst as he sings lyrics that "describe a world that is profoundly haunted by the past". New band of the day: Heterotic (No 1,443) 2013-01-31T16:58:09Z The show itself, though handsomely designed, is a wan affair, presented by the Canadian troupe 2B Theater Company at 59E59 Theaters. ‘One Discordant Violin’ Review: In Search of Soul-Stirring Art 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z A reading light at the side of his bed lit his wan face. Sex, facing death 2012-06-11T00:00:00Z After canceling a planned gathering for pandemic-obvious reasons, I ignored suggestions for wan, scaled-down menus featuring chicken legs and miniature pie for two. Take a culinary journey with these new travel-inspired cookbooks 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The strings offered a taut, dramatic and darkly lyrical performance, yet the winds and brass were disappointingly wan. Soprano Heidi Melton shows promise in Strauss’s ‘Four Last Songs’ program 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z If the atmosphere of this exhibition is more wan than winsome, it speaks to the collective exhaustion that pervades even our inanimate objects, all destined to be discarded, forgotten and replaced. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z The visual palette is a wan, watery mix of pale yellows, browns and greens — the colors of bland, overcooked food. Review: ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch,’ Roy Andersson’s Rumination on Life 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z It’s the only way that such a wan book by such a smart jurist makes any sense. Revisiting Justice Stephen Breyer’s Curious (and Strangely Timed) Defense of the Court 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z From beginning to end he adheres to the same thinly layered, stippled application of increasingly wan colors. Art Review: A Modernist Who Thrived at the Margins of Painting 2011-07-21T23:27:13Z And while the movie tries to engage race, its efforts are wan, cautious. ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ Review: The Best Really Is Over 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Comer, Oh and Shaw did a lot of work perfecting the brilliant surfaces of the characters Waller-Bridge created, but the characters are looking washed-out now, and the performances look correspondingly wan. ‘Killing Eve’ Review: The End of the Road 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The wan contemplative spirit of Scandinavian art once again creeps in, over the shelves, infusing the silver light. Christian K?bke: Nordic exposure 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z Elsewhere, the rock and blues are wan, the whispers of Middle Eastern twang or Indian raga unnecessary. Review: ‘Mass’ Brings Out the Worst in Leonard Bernstein 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The music felt intentionally wan, a sparse backdrop for Mr. Merritt’s lyrical convolution. Music Review | Magnetic Fields: A Folksy Palette of Despondency at Town Hall 2010-03-11T23:10:00Z Claudia, wracked by responsibility, often looks wan, even in her regal outfits. Television Review: ‘Gallery Girls’ Follows the New York Art World on Bravo 2012-08-12T21:35:06Z Yet this book is alive and heterodox, the kind of ambitious failure that’s more interesting than many wan so-called successes. Books of The Times: ?The Grey Album? by Kevin Young 2012-03-15T21:50:21Z There are wan gestures at gender bending, including the exchange of costumes, by Doug Fitch. Dance Review: High Kicks, Mugging and Poses in the Park 2011-07-17T21:23:28Z “Was I wise? Was I wan? Was I fun?” he asked. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z His thumbnail portraits of famous others tend to be wan. ‘Selected Letters of Langston Hughes’ 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Grand Park, connecting the Music Center with City Hall, has been a wan success. How the Music Center broke new ground for major arts institutions 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Similarly, the incidental musical accompaniment, amounting at times to a few wan plinks on a violin or thumps of a drum, provides an alienating, rather than moodily advantageous, counterpoint. Review | ‘The Winter’s Tale’ should warm your heart. This one leaves you cold. 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z With wit and freewheeling energy, Meirelles shows the fraught lives of these five characters who periodically address the camera with wan prose-poems about themselves. London scores as Brazil's Fernando Meirelles heads for the capital 2010-06-25T10:21:00Z A wan inscription composed by Ben Okri – "Our future is greater than our past" – decorates the Commonwealth Memorial Gates at the top of Constitution Hill. London is now full of war memorials, but the oldest are still the best 2012-11-09T22:29:02Z She missed breakfast in the morning, but when I ran into her on the pier she was wan but cheerful. | Poland by the Sea 2011-08-01T21:00:30Z But heed Luke Haines's gleefully misanthropic warning to "pale and wan" hipsters in the Auteurs' Junk Shop Clothes, which he says "will get you nowhere". Readers recommend: songs about clothes – results 2012-07-19T14:05:28Z When the latest loss hits the timeline, we pile in with broken-heart emojis and prayers for the families, a kind of wan language of loss. Lena Dunham: ‘Caroline Flack’s death hit me with a sickening power’ 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z But the insistently blanched work of the cinematographer, Sergio Armstrong, and Ms. Rodríguez’s wan performance become numbing, and the film at times feels like a feature-length version of a daydream sequence. Movie Review: ‘Young and Wild,’ by Marialy Rivas 2012-11-30T03:23:35Z The accompanying post-concert selfie, however, showed them sprawled on a sofa, looking wan and lifeless, as if suffering the late stages of cholera. Power Couples on Twitter and Instagram 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z King Charles, the unworthy recipient of Strafford's loyalty, is brilliantly sketched: "Sullenly delicate, that wan mean dignity!" Collected Poems 1935-92 by FT Prince - review 2012-10-12T21:55:07Z But Ms. Voigt’s low-range singing was wan, and her sound often lacked the body and carrying power a Cassandra must summon. Music Review: Berlioz’s ‘Troyens’ Returns to Metropolitan Opera 2012-12-14T22:22:35Z Rhodes deals in the main with wan, passive, earnestly matter-of-fact men who go to their dooms with a sort of glum acceptance. Marry Me by Dan Rhodes – review 2013-02-08T11:00:01Z As our leading man, Claflin alternates between a pout and a wan smile, and shows all the charm of beans on toast. ‘Book of Love’ Review: Lust (Eventually) in Translation 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z It’s worth contrasting the veteran Beresford’s wan and impersonal approach to Murphy in “Mr. Church” with the relatively inexperienced Daniel Noah’s direction of “Max Rose.” Why Is Eddie Murphy in Cinematic Exile? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The horror of metamorphosis — a time-honored theme in fright flicks including “The Fly” and more recently “Contracted” and its sequel — is given another workout in the wan “Lace Crater.” Review: In ‘Lace Crater,’ Regretting That Tryst With a Ghost 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z In their pre-disco days, Robin always had his hand cupped over his ear and, with his spaniel hair, cut a wan figure on stage. Robin Gibb dies aged 62 2012-05-20T23:26:00Z But taking it over on Friday, the soprano Elza van den Heever was representative of a cast that sounded wan and unassertive. When the Orchestra Is the Star of the Opera 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The Emmys are going without a host this year, which worked just fine for the Oscars and did not seem strange or wan at all. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The score also has wan echoes of “Chicago.” Theater Review | 'The Scottsboro Boys': Kander and Ebb Revisit an Infamous Case 2010-03-11T05:17:00Z And, yes, the vacuously celebratory lyrics hyping the “swell celebrity” Jimmy Walker may raise a wan smile. Review: ‘Fiorello!,’ the Mayor Who Fought for the Little Guy 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z He mines the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth for close harmonies, undergirding their singing with a wan wash of strings, the barest touch of propulsion. Review: Mapplethorpe Inspires a Composer’s Meager Tribute 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z With the best will in the world, this now feels a trifle wan. 'lf I had a gun, I'd shoot her': how violence could save The X Factor 2012-10-11T17:11:01Z But this wan ensemble drama is one train that barely leaves the station. 'Bridge and Tunnel' leads nowhere 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z If the final AR image of plastic bags, echoed by one onstage, gestures toward a critique of environmental despoliation, it’s a wan gesture. Review: Wagner Would Have Liked AR, but Not This ‘Parsifal’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Olivia's novel came out long ago; mixed reviews and wan reception bruised her so badly that she retreated into a career of teaching. Passion and fame in the digital age: Watching 'Sex With Strangers' at the Geffen 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z “The Cockroach” is so toothless and wan that it may drive his readers away in long apocalyptic caravans. Ian McEwan’s Political Satire ‘The Cockroach’ Offers a Reversal of Kafka 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z The first single, “Steal My Girl,” is a wan version of more electric past hits such as “Best Song Ever.” One Direction made it to ‘Four,’ which is more of a feat than ‘Four’ itself If you felt wan after the face-smashing scene at the start, reach for the smelling salts. How historically accurate is The Revenant? 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The trouble isn’t just that his work here is confusing; it’s scattered and wan. Review: An Operatic Locavore Consumes the English Countryside 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z “Daylight come and me wan’ go home,” his chorus chants. Harry Belafonte and the Social Power of Song 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Writer-director-editor Jonathan Smith uses wan fantasy gimmicks and a jumpy flashback structure to tell his tale. 'The Worst Year of My Life' is a dispiriting romantic dramedy 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The wan drama is enlivened by bursts of black comedy, some bits more effective than others, and though it ultimately disappoints, there's promise in the understated creepiness of Riley Stearns' debut feature. Deprogramming is hard work in 'Faults' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Universities imagine themselves as microcosms, but they’re only shards; their notions of diversity, intellectual and otherwise, aren’t even wan reflections of the real diversity in the world. Trump, the University of Chicago, and the Collapse of Public Language 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z A forced march upward through visually wan repetition seemed likely. The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Unlike the textile worker, who brought to mind wan images of a young woman or “a sickly child,” steelworkers were often portrayed “as intensely masculine, often bare-chested, with muscles rippling.” In ‘Behemoth,’ Manufacturing Still Looms Large 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Morton Feldman's unearthly "Rothko Chapel," conducted by Robert Spano in a near midnight chill under a full moon, was a highlight despite a wan solo viola. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Many coming-of-age stories rely on wan archetypes, but this has an exciting vitality; even minor characters are richly drawn in kooky detail. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z This kind of success sometimes prompts poets to produce increasingly wan imitations of the work that won the big award. Review | Yusef Komunyakaa again brings his distinctive music to the page 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z As Didymus, the countertenor David Daniels sounded wan and underpowered in the first act, but he improved significantly as the afternoon progressed. Music Review: ‘Theodora’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T07:29:53Z Works are loosely clustered according to theme: wan and willowy youths, mystical landscapes and Baudelairean fever dreams, to name a few. Art in Review: ?INVITATION TO THE VOYAGE? 2011-09-22T22:00:09Z In essence it puts a wan indie gloss on music that would otherwise scan as New Age, with extra doses of reverb and pretension. Making Merry With Music 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Your skin is not wan; your eyes are not jaundiced. At the annual Travel Goods Show, plenty of pack-worthy products 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z The Nirvana Percussion Choir, I’m sorry to say, expanded its repertoire and played a wan self-styled lullaby full of soft drum strokes and triangle tinkles. Surviving a Weekend with the Wizard of Prog Rock 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Somehow that tune felt wan and dutiful, and so did the one that followed, a rickety two-step called “You and Me.” Music Review: Away From His Desk, Up on the Bandstand 2011-04-01T22:58:20Z In her hands they became a living organism; dark and sombre, pale and wan, delicate and sweet, angry – even deranged. Nabucco; Bach Marathon; Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott – review 2013-04-06T23:06:25Z While a little wan, the linear entanglements are elegantly engrossing, and their layering and sampling of existing images are two key strategies of painting since the early 1970s. Francis Picabia, the Playboy Prankster of Moderism 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The second and last movements meandered, the ending an unsatisfying series of wan gestures. Three singular artists present an engaging program at the Kennedy Center 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z “It felt like me,” she said of the outfit, a wan but unmistakable nose-thumbing to the stylist juggernaut. Fashion Review: Trembling Jeweled Hands on a (Dry) Red Carpet 2014-03-03T03:55:52Z No, this film is actually about Mr. O’Nan and his wan, scruffy innocence. Movie Review: ‘Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best,’ Directed by Ryan O’Nan 2012-09-21T22:00:07Z But still, too often the show confirms the Modern’s blind devotion to the wan, cerebral machinations of late-late-late Conceptualism. Art Review: Ephemeral Events, Annotated 2011-05-06T06:00:07Z The comparatively straighter “Anna and the Apocalypse” also features the usual girl-and-boy blah-blah, which plays out against a wan zombie cataclysm. ‘Anna and the Apocalypse’ Review: They Sing, Dance and Get Eaten 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Couldn’t we swipe a few more from the wan best-actor category, at least? Inside the Oscars’ Best-Actress Battle Royal 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Both photographer and subject overcame initial reluctance, with Wood finding the light that had inspired the Impressionist painters a century earlier perfect for the private, wan Warhol, organizers of the exhibit said. New Andy Warhol exhibit features the artist as subject 2013-04-23T20:15:40Z Though encumbered with a Spanish accent that slides into Transylvania, Mr. Lane is in fine voice and brings a star trouper’s energy and polish to one wan number after another. | 'The Addams Family': Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth on Broadway 2010-04-09T02:29:00Z It offered caped dancers, spandex costumes and futuristic Balaeric pop: a slice of psychedelia that left even the lakeside excerpt from the West End production of Hair looking somewhat wan. Latitude festival: Shakespeare, Swan Lake and Empire of the Sun steal the show 2010-07-19T13:19:00Z These add G-rated fun to the exhibition — a wan facsimile of the after-hours debauchery for which downtown was famous and in which nostalgia has replaced a wicked hangover, or worse. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z But Ruskin’s wan, emotionless screenplay — shockingly bloodless for a movie about more than a dozen murders — fails to give the character a single believable relationship. ‘Boston Strangler’ Review: Chasing a Killer (and a Byline) 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Warner’s story is inspirational but intricate, and this wan film struggles to balance simple storytelling with the complexities of the sport. ‘American Underdog’ Review: A Football Fairy Tale 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z In the third, a historical figure appears in the story but as a mere shade or wan caricature. The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z This is imitation rather than translation, of course, but, by daring to be truly idiomatic, Peterson gives the wan modern English of recent translations a hearty blood transfusion. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z Through the windows I thought I could see wan aristocrats I might know, but there was no stopping. T Magazine: Vexed in Venice 2011-12-01T00:10:20Z The humor all seems recycled from a time when wan was good enough. ‘Mulaney,’ a Comedy That Riffs on ‘Seinfeld’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Naomi Frederick as Catherine Winslow has a wan calculating intelligence – a convincing suffragette. The Winslow Boy – review 2013-03-24T00:06:01Z Caressed by golden hues in the sunny flashbacks, appearing wan and frail in some of Emily’s darker moments, Mara proves worthy of Soderbergh’s closeup attention. Side Effects: One Pill Makes You Murder 2013-02-08T05:01:30Z Each time I see it, whether at night or lingering in the wan blue morning, I feel a blaze of recognition. When the Light, Shadow and Stars Aligned: Standing Where Ansel Adams Stood 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z She and Utter look happy enough in “Adam and Eve” — at least “Eve” does — even if their naked bodies are a bit wan and underfed. Revolutionary Model Turned Uncompromising Painter 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Attention is paid to wan melody as well as to the minutiae of constructing a record on computers and keyboards. New band of the day – Sohn (No 1,401) 2012-11-22T12:57:31Z They train her in aristo ways in a wan “My Fair Lady”-style tutoring session. Review: ‘Anastasia,’ a Russian Princess With an Identity Crisis 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z It is here that a French-speaking friend, Elizabeth Reynal, suggested that he turn the wan, waifish figure she saw in his doodles into the protagonist of a children’s book. Exhibition Review: The Morgan Explores the Origins of ‘The Little Prince’ 2014-01-24T00:34:37Z A wan, pretty avatar of the upper classes, Elena is physically droopy and given to dull pronouncements; she’s educated just enough to think she knows better. ‘Martin Eden’ Review: Reading and Writing His Way Out of the Pit 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Young lovers now “hook up,” a healthy phrase, if as wan as a piece of Dover sole. Sex and Faith Overheat in Jamie Quatro’s ‘Fire Sermon’ 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z She buzzed me up and stood waiting by her apartment door, which was opened just a few inches, her dark brown hair pulled into a haphazard ponytail, her face, visible above her mask, looking wan. The Loneliness of the Locked-Down Single Mother 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z ‘Indian Summer’ Two mismatched teenagers — nicely played by Owen Campbell and Elise Kibler — form an unlikely intimacy in Gregory S. Moss’s melancholy and rather wan comedy-drama, set on a Rhode Island beach. Theater Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Pretty but conspicuously wan, she is like a modern day Simone Weil, existing entirely for the benefit of those less fortunate. Elisabeth Moss, Carey Mulligan share a sensibility on separate stages 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z This is a very wan defense of something that I’ve grown to accept in myself, but I did spend two years on “The Simpsons Movie.” Film: Bringing Love to Strong Women 2010-12-10T22:58:00Z That insistence fades in a movie that is itself largely a conventional, wan affair, despite its art-cinema flourishes, like scenes that start and end in medias res. | 'Like Crazy': ?Like Crazy? From Drake Doremus ? Review 2011-10-27T22:04:03Z Dakota, a model wearing almost no makeup, her hair center parted, was wan as Ophelia — though an armored Ophelia, to be sure. FITTINGS: Countdown to Fashion Week: Thank the Deli for That Dress 2013-08-21T18:17:47Z Brushing aside the mostly wan intervening attempts to resurrect Carpenter’s minimalist masterpiece, he has made a straight-up sequel, a rematch between heroine and villain. ‘Halloween’ Review: Babysitters (and Jamie Lee Curtis) Beware! 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Part of the frustration with Sunday’s show is due to the wan effort to dissipate pressure that encircled the performance portion long before they took the stage. Super Bowl in the age of anxiety: Maroon 5's boring halftime show was a symptom, not the disease 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z But without him, the cast would be rudderless and married to wan political humor, which is not this staff’s forte. "Saturday Night Live" has a problem not even Matt Damon can solve 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Under the jaded, ex-addict exterior, the wan, toughened survivor I’d fallen in love with, who could listen to and talk about the saddest, most brutal experiences at meetings — under that was Aunt Bea! Review: In ‘The Mare,’ Mary Gaitskill Writes About a Girl Caught in a Domestic Swirl 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z It wasn’t a wan dreaminess, it was almost like a fierce upholding of unreality.” There?s Nothing Blue About Rachel Weisz 2012-03-15T13:48:06Z She was heroic in a way, a superhuman and quite fantastic creation of her own making, an Amazon to kick to the curb the wan and waifish Twiggy types who had preceded her. Jordan Mooney, an Avatar of Punk Style, Dies at 66 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z This approach might be intellectually commendable, but it makes for wan drama. 'Race's' incendiary topic defused by Mamet's underwritten characters 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Yet the overall impression is of vacancy and wan color. In the galleries: Semi-fictional streetscapes resemble stage sets 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z And there were too many nights when stirring Bach choral works, animated Mozart symphonies, intense Brahms concertos, diaphanous Debussy scores and more just sounded wan, and I felt restless in my seat. What I’ve Learned in 60 Years of Listening to the Philharmonic 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z She moves convincingly from smooth operator to nervous wreck and is harrowing in her final scene – wan as a tallow candle. Before I Sleep; Eurydice; Macbeth 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z A recurring sight over the performance is the kind of food and condiments you would find at a greasy spoon — canned beans, mayonnaise, wan slices of tomato. Review: An Opera Updates Oedipus, With Peroxide-Blond Hair 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The director Michael Tully’s wan and sentimental period drama, set in Ocean City, Maryland, in the summer of 1985, feels like a hard-edged filmmaker’s self-conscious embrace of his gentler side. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z One challenge, though, is that TV can sometimes turn theater spectacle into something puny: “She Loves Me” is set in a twinkling perfumery that sadly seemed wan and scanty on the screen. Broadway Comes to a Laptop Near You 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z He's been said, on occasion, to sound wan and be short of breath. L.A. Opera opens 30th season with Plácido Domingo staying busy 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Instead we are stuck with a slick impersonation, accurate but wan. How Do You Measure a Season on Broadway? In Cast Albums. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z “Cry-Baby,” “Bonnie & Clyde,” “Chaplin” and “Doctor Zhivago,” greeted by me with a wan smile when they debuted at La Jolla Playhouse, traced similar trajectories in their failed bids to conquer the Great White Way. 'Come From Away,' 'Amélie' and the long, bumpy road from West Coast to Broadway 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Even Robert Joy, terrific last season as the British monarch in Mike Bartlett’s “King Charles III,” comes across here as a wan and not especially endearing Polonius. Review | Kahn’s final ‘Hamlet’ at Shakespeare Theatre is off-key 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z As I watched “I Married an Angel,” the wan Encores! offering that opened on Wednesday night at New York City Center, my mind kept flashing to debates about Confederate monuments. Review: In ‘I Married an Angel,’ a 1930s Musical Falls to Earth 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Francesca Fuchs makes small, wonderfully wan renditions of even smaller snapshots and drawings, including mats, frames and those frames’ shadows, that seem to be fading into the mist, toward abstraction. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z Two mismatched teenagers forge a tentative friendship on a Rhode Island beach in “Indian Summer,” a melancholy, rather wan comedy-drama by Gregory S. Moss that opened on Wednesday at Playwrights Horizons. Review: ‘Indian Summer,’ Toes in the Sand and Chemistry in the Air 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The orchestra was sometimes wan but at other points gorgeously full. Pure joy in toe shoes: Tiler Peck and the radiant dancing of 'BalletNow' 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z A few turned a wan yellow, like the old paint on the wall of a flophouse. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: He was searching for a column idea. He found a third nipple. 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The wan, jaunty coda sounded like a spectral hurdy gurdy. Michelangelo Sonnets; Hippolyte et Aricie – review 2013-07-06T23:09:04Z Williams tried to give it a positive spin, saying that Wade was great even when he wasn’t doing his best, then expressing a wan hope that he’d be able to continue to work with Wade. 'The Voice' recap: Top 8 ... or top great? 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Giving a stoic shrug and a wan smile of resignation, D’Ardelo declares that he’s still planning to celebrate his birthday with a cocktail party. Milan Kundera’s new novel feels so very French 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z But hers isn’t a wan faith in expanding the pie and crossing the aisle. In ‘Becoming,’ Michelle Obama Mostly Opts for Empowerment Over Politics 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Aboveground, a sprinkling of public art and murals add a touch of whimsy to the otherwise wan landscape of high-rises. Amazon chose two locations for its new headquarters. Now, we go explore them. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The mediocre songs, for the most part, conjure wan memories of Tin Pan Alley, and the dialogue scenes wallow in cheap sentiment. Review | ‘Newsies’ has legs. It’s the other parts that still need work. 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z And in 2011, when he returned to lead the New York Philharmonic for the first time since 1978, the program of Strauss’s “Don Quixote” and Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony was genial yet wan. Music Review: Bernard Haitink Leads the New York Philharmonic 2014-05-09T21:23:31Z A few constructions call for refining and consistency, most of all the wan mushroom soup, poured over unlikely companions of quinoa and celery root. Review | A new chef freshens up the Ashby Inn, just in time for road-trip season 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z In this translation the rhymes are often approximate and the refrain wan: “I beg of you, contain your wrath for all / God’s creatures need the help of all.” Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z But it ends up with a wan, chintzy soap that can’t compete with reality–either Britain’s or E!’s. Review: The Ridiculous Royals Puts the Nasty in Dynasty 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Her soft pensive singing was sometimes pale and wan. Music Review: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Opens at Bayreuth With Reality-Cam Touch 2013-07-28T21:38:06Z Sian Brooke captures perfectly Jean's wan adjustment to the single life, and the misery of spending her days as a garage-cashier staring at a brick wall. Ecstasy - review 2011-03-16T00:17:46Z The concerto’s first two movements are a fascinating study in density and translucence, with sounds morphing from silvery and wan to red-blooded and impassioned. Review: Under Salonen, the Philharmonia Orchestra Shines 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Cream Earl Grey, combining bergamot orange and vanilla, added body and a smooth, citrusy flavor to an otherwise wan and watery Coors Light. Can a simple tea bag turn Coors Light into something worth drinking? 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z And, who knows, maybe the wan and swoony girls devoured by the “Twilight” series will grow up to one day read these poems instead. Books Of the Times: Five Poets Seasoned by Life 2011-05-29T22:06:07Z The lunar glow of Gheorghiu's voice sounds wan, and her intonation often sags; never having developed as an interpreter, she can only compete with our memories of her dewier prime. La princesse jaune/La colombe; La rondine – review 2013-07-13T23:05:23Z In the 18th and 19th centuries Bordeaux or Burgundy producers sometimes surreptitiously bolstered their bottles in wan vintages with darker wines from Languedoc, Spain, Italy or Morocco. A Wine From Nowhere 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z She also sums up this wan story’s moral. ‘Hubie Halloween’ Review: No Tricks, Few Treats 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z I like chicken, but not the wan and fatless white meat, unless it is slathered with gravy. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Behold, the worst diet of all time 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z They floated in small bands looking wan and breathless. Readers and writers remember 2013-06-21T20:58:44Z Killer is, like all the Outfit tracks, sweetly melodic but disguises solemn navel-gazing: it's wan tribal pop, like Vampire Weekend after a trip to the more depressing parts of the Wirral. New band of the day ? No 1,067: Outfit 2011-07-21T16:31:39Z It’s hard to place precisely, but after taking in the obstinate rhetoric, the throwback glasses and the wan smile, we think we know this guy. Al Pacino in ?You Don?t Know Jack,? About Kevorkian 2010-04-20T23:03:00Z For a play supposedly dealing with the aftershock of Vietnam, you look for something more resonant than Purdy's wan observation about America: "I suppose it's the best of several unappealing options." Purple Heart – review 2013-03-06T17:39:58Z Minor, inconsequential, wan, harshly acidic are among the ways it is usually described — fit only as the base wine for a kir, an aperitif made by blending it with crème de cassis. The Aligoté Defense Rests 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z With Brunswick’s backing, thousands of tables were made and installed in arcades, pizza parlors, community-center basements—anywhere with a stretch of faux-wood panelling and a proximate crew of wan, beanpole kids. The Forgotten Greatness of Air Hockey 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Adam Sandler is a vastly talented actor who is a victim of his own success, which generally keeps him working in a wan comedic mode with directors of little inspiration. Adam Sandler’s Misused Comedic Art 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z I recently encountered a variant in a restaurant — you might consider suing — that added mushy green beans and a few wan kernels of corn. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The brilliant strategy behind ‘vegetable medley’ 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z There are some sculptures but they are wan and inscrutable. Tracey Emin should have had more fun at the seaside 2012-05-25T15:16:36Z She could have easily swapped roles with social media star Addison Rae, who herself plays a vaguely mean popular girl Gabby; both are brunets with long, wavy hair and similarly wan screen abilities. Review: For 'Thanksgiving,' Eli Roth serves up a feature-length feast of gore, some of it stale 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z The sloth’s nubbly nylon “fur” does the scrubbing, its front paws grasp a handy hanging cord and a wan, stitched-in half smile serves as a reminder that the scullery duty is only temporary. 17 tiny stocking stuffers that make a big impact 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Is it that the many bad versions out there — soggy noodles swathed in bottled dressing and tossed with wan vegetables — make good ones hard to imagine? This easy vegetarian pasta is full of brilliant hacks 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z He appeared thin and wan on the Senate floor, and spoke in a baritone that wavered from time to time. McConnell largely ignores his public freeze-ups on return to US Senate 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Before climbing into the passenger seat of the minivan for the ride to the team hotel, the coach flashed a wan smile. U.S. flaws were exposed during its World Cup opener, but the team isn't worried 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Spiralizing zucchini into “noodles” often translates into a wan and watery dish, a poor imitation of the pasta it attempts to emulate. Shaved zucchini and herb salad with parmesan: Stop spiralizing zucchini — a peeler works better 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Anheuser-Busch not only issued a wan statement of regret for the marketing outreach, but sidelined the two marketing executives responsible for the campaign. Column: Right-wing hatemongers count on the cowardice of companies such as Target 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z What’s on-screen too often feels like wan, second-rate imitation, and the few differences seem motivated less by a spirit of imagination than one of joyless anxiety. Review: Halle Bailey makes a lovely ‘Little Mermaid,’ but this remake is less than shipshape 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z A guy so wan he can break the profit-seeking will of the biggest firm in live music? The 25 concerts we can't wait to see this summer 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z "Daylight come and me wan' go home" became his anthem. Harry Belafonte obituary: Legendary singer, actor and civil rights activist 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z But the gallery that day seemed wan, provincial and jarringly out of touch with the cosmopolitan city outside. Perspective | Sydney finally gets the destination museum it deserves 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z In the photos from the courtroom released Friday by Belarus’ state news agency Belta, Bialiatksi, clad in black clothes, looked wan, but calm. Nobel laureate Bialiatski sentenced to 10 years in Belarus 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z After I and other critics pointed out the ludicrously weak underpinning of its article, ProPublica issued a wan correction. Column: Despite latest reports, there's still not a speck of evidence that COVID escaped from a Chinese lab 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z They brought their humanity to a House chamber filled with partisan posturing, wan symbols and unruly bellowing. Perspective | The citizens are strong. Congress is unruly theater. 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z The combination tasted wan in comparison with the other entrees. Review | Woodberry Tavern thinks big in a small space in Baltimore 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z McCarthy greeted each defection with a wan smile. Opinion | To save himself, McCarthy just destroyed the House 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Sometimes winter sunshine, even if wan and pale, can mitigate the effects engendered by the thermometer alone. Saturday looked wintry, and unsurprisingly felt that way 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Xi looks away, his wan smile has gone, as Mr. Trudeau adds: “We will continue to look to work constructively together, but there will be things we will disagree on.” China’s Xi Scolds Canada’s Trudeau Over ‘Leaked’ Conversation in 40-Second Exchange 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z The sound of the engine was muffled, and the wan light seemed to seep in from all directions, leaving no shadows, no texture and no hint of the approaching bumps that we trundled over. Antarctica’s Collapse Could Begin Even Sooner Than Anticipated 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z A fellow grad student, “brittle and wan and proud,” makes Erin feel bad about herself, ever announcing her participation in a conference or roundtable on “the figure of the clerk in whatever.” Review: How Lucy Ives turned the 'What's in Her Bag' trope into a brilliantly berserk novel 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z The first, from 2011, is a sparse page featuring a wan Mr. Bausman in a suit and a link to a group interested in tennis. An American’s Murky Path From Russian Propagandist to Jan. 6 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Veiled by wan sunlight that reflected off the camera's optics, Earth is barely visible in the image. Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z She managed a wan smile from behind the oxygen mask that was helping her breathe. Opinion | Forget the WHO. India owes its people the truth about covid-19. 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z All set in a wan gold valued for its whiteness. I like my bling to match my skin. But this turquoise ring is my inheritance 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The synthetic heave is a wan sight gag, a self-reflexive expression of one’s own artificiality. Review: Spanish conquistadors and plastic vomit: That's 'Lifes' at UCLA Hammer Museum 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the script’s sparseness too often bleeds into the dialogue which, at times, sounds remarkably wan. Review: Harrowing Naomi Watts rescue drama 'Infinite Storm' lacks emotional punch 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z So inured are we that our reaction to this is often a wan shrug. The trend on many Seattle street corners: small to big 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Dressed in an army-green T-shirt or fleece, unshaven and wan, he has inspired Ukrainians to defend their streets with the most rudimentary of weapons. Ukraine Agrees to Talks With Russia, but Fighting Still Rages 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z A wan woman of the bird category, Mira begins adulthood filled with delusions and the ache of her stilted heart. Review | In Sheila Heti’s ‘Pure Colour,’ the plot is just an excuse for philosophical musings 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z I came to believe these added up to far more than the wan "What price glory?" tropes of mainstream media. Football hero: How George Visger survived the NFL and traumatic brain injury — barely 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Mostly we lacked even a glimpse of the sun; its afternoon appearances seemed wan and pallid, unable to relieve the bleakness of the day. After our Saturday, a big Sunday storm would be no surprise 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Its battery was dead, he told me with a wan smile. Hell on Earth, small town-style: Climate change transformed my life in 2021 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z That means Carlsen could finish off his fourth successful defense of the title as soon as today with a wan. Magnus Carlsen v Ian Nepomniachtchi: World Chess Championship Game 11 – live! 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z The final couple of seasons, but especially the post-series movies, felt so off in part because, by giving the characters all they’d ever wanted, the franchise became a cozy but wan domestic soap. Review | ‘And Just Like That ...’ is ‘Sex and the City’ for 2021: A bloated, laugh-free comedy about grief 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Toward the end of winter, most of your cuttings in water will have grown lanky and wan. How to overwinter your garden plants with little fuss and much success 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z “It makes you wan to play harder, it makes you thankful for the opportunity — when they’re giving you the opportunity, and you better take advantage of it.” Versatility paying off for ex-Canuck Jared McCann as Kraken prepares to face his former team 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z In the finale, Uatu, the inscrutable Watcher voiced by Jeffrey Wright, says with cosmic gravitas, “It’s showtime,” while a wan attempt at “cute wordplay” between Captain Carter and Black Widow fails not once, but twice. Why the misbegotten 'What If...?' should have Marvel fans worried 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z From his curly bangs and wan complexion to his awkward postures and constantly darting eyes, it’s a characterization that may have worked on stage but doesn’t in close-up. ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ review: Transition from stage to screen reveals flaws 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Moviegoers more or less responded in kind, turning that wan comedy into a $250 million worldwide hit and setting plans for a franchise in motion. Review: ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ strands LeBron James in a swirling CGI garbage tornado 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Corals were turning into lifeless skeletons; the ones that were hanging on looked wan and sickly. Will Probiotics Save Corals or Harm Them? 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Ahead of Thursday’s trade deadline, Washington brought in a wing defender and a big man to help fortify the team’s wan defense. Wizards are half-good, and it’s not enough to prevent another loss 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z In Orli’s earliest TikTok videos, when her cancer was new and her belly still visibly swollen with tumor, she appears skeletally thin, her eyes huge, her face pale and wan. Opinion | My Daughter, TikTok Warrior 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z “Not great. Pretty wan. Transparent, even. It won’t be long before she — ” The Spirits of Abandoned Ambitions 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z He looked wan and sounded less energetic than usual in a rambling message that included campaign talk and boasts about his record. Trump’s Symptoms Described as ‘Very Concerning’ Even as Doctors Offer Rosier Picture 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z But that in itself is instructive: Great art keeps us in a place where there is no “closure,” and where a principle of portly ambivalence reigns over wan and emaciated certitude. Perspective | A painting that dares to stare back at you 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z His face was wan and beautiful, with hollow cheeks and dark, pleading eyes. Opinion | ‘Pray for Your Poor Uncle,’ a Predatory Priest Told His Victims 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z If it had a wan feel, it was a truthful reflection of the pandemic’s toll on every one of us. The future of the arts: ‘The classical music world has been transfigured’ 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Many others showed up just to tell Li, finally, “wan an.” As Wuhan’s lockdown ends, residents leave messages for the dead doctor who sounded the alarm on coronavirus 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The brisket is in the freezer, the matzoh in the pantry, but this Passover will be different from all other Passovers, a wan, anxious version of itself. Opinion | Next year, may we be together 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z It was a Friday in mid April and a wan, white-blue sky stretched across the Los Angeles basin. Meet the Hollywood super-networkers working to beat Trump at any price 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Think of the cure like steeping a tea bag: too short a dunk, and you get wan tea; too long, and your brew gets rather intense. The Best Party Trick: Make Your Own Gravlax 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z The Times story pitched on the home page Wednesday morning as being about how Sanders "may become the party's standard-bearer" was wan. Press Watch: Mainstream media gives Bernie only partial credit for N.H. victory 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z “As ‘time’s wan wave’ brings an end to Stephen’s long and distinguished life, we extend our deepest condolences to his family and friends. Stephen Joyce, last direct descendant of James Joyce, dies aged 87 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z I was a slow developer, and at seventeen I was wan and skinny. “Found Wanting” 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z ‘Daylight come and me wan’ go home,’ his chorus chants. Irving Burgie, who wrote ‘Day-O’ and other calypso hits for Harry Belafonte, dies at 95 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z But it still feels like a wan copy of something more vital. Review | Timothée Chalamet stars in ‘The King,’ a handsome if dull take on English history 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z He is a poet, and the thing he is interested in is obtaining poetry, getting the grapes of carnelian truly red and round, getting Uta-napishti’s deathless world appropriately wan and bloodless. How to Read “Gilgamesh” 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z “He’s been just exactly what you wan out of a rookie guy, that makes the team, a lower pick, battles his way through camp, shows good stuff,’’ Carroll said this week. Seahawks right guard D.J. Fluker leaves game vs. Rams with hamstring injury 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Paul McCartney does his best to enliven a pretty wan bit of music with his contributions – playing bass, piano and drums – but it’s an uphill struggle. The Beatles' singles – ranked! 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The few prepackaged salads looked wan at best. Junk Food at Monticello? Alice Waters Helps Lead a Revolution 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z This is its reward: a performance so wan that it is difficult to believe this team was the champion of Europe just 16 months ago. In Rewritten Recipe, P.S.G. Grinds and Real Madrid Crumbles 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z A cocktail called the Rouge Fumée—tequila, mezcal, watermelon juice, and chili honey—sounded tempting but tasted like water that had been used to clean vegetables, garnished with a wan slice of cumin-pickled watermelon rind. At the Rebooted Pastis, Stick with the Classics 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z The athletic, fit body of the man is increasingly subject to similar strictures to exhibit both strength and now a new sense of needing to be protected, almost wan. Will this be the last generation to have bodies that are familiar to us? | Susie Orbach 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z “Tannhäuser” opened the festival on July 25, and the reviews were nearly unanimous in citing Gergiev as the evening’s one flaw, the orchestra sounding wan. Commentary: For Putin-backed conductor Valery Gergiev, boos and cheers at Bayreuth and Salzburg 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Frodo, intriguingly, comes to understand this about Gollum, but only after Frodo wields the ring for a while: the trauma of carrying it affects him deeply, makes him wan and tired. If "Lord of the Rings" is a parable for trauma, what can it teach us now? 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z It is a wan, authoritative and unnerving piece. ‘Finland’s Munch’: the unnerving art of Helene Schjerfbeck 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z When I Skype the dancer in her New York apartment, she looks suitably glowing in the laptop’s wan light. Three to tango: the pregnant dancer duetting with her husband 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z After 75 years, the gap between the muscular economic reality and America’s wan self-image is enormous. Opinion | Everyone acts like America is in decline. Let’s look at the numbers. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Kennedy asserted that Jarrett’s accounts of her White House activities are “wan.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Valerie Jarrett, Tiger Woods and another snub of female athletes 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Many other catastrophes, large and small, have befallen Paris, and that history of destruction and renewal as a source of civic faith offered a wan hope, as Notre-Dame burned on Monday. Notre-Dame in the French Imagination 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Jarrett’s account of her doings in the White House is similarly wan. Review | Valerie Jarrett’s winding path to the Obamas’ inner circle 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Another offense: The chicken is tender, but the breast meat dries out and tastes wan. A full-flavored chicken dish with sweet and nutty garlic 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z When Betsy returned, she took one look at us, our wan faces and stony resolve. Giving up alcohol made our lives better – and turned us into terrible guests 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z What we got instead was a wan “Final Destination” with monkey paintings. Essential Arts: A ‘spellbinding’ Renaissance masterpiece lands in L.A. 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Its timely messages become muted amid a kaleidoscope of settings, characters, brusque action scenes, blunt speechifying and wan romance. Review Conspiracy theories fail to engage in ‘The Gandhi Murder’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The NFL made Vinovich available for a comment with a pool reporter, but he said he had not seen the play and offered a wan explanation. Rams beat Saints to advance to Super Bowl, after a big comeback and a controversial call 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Butina entered the packed courtroom in Washington looking composed but wan. Russian spy Maria Butina pleads guilty to conspiracy against US 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The faces still in the room are wan and haggard. The Brexit wreckers are slinking away from the rancid mess they’ve made | Rafael Behr 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The wan cubes of orange and wrinkly orbs of green were about the same in size but not of the same texture, so a typical turn in a saucepan failed them both. Peas and carrots finally get their due in this spicy pasta with tahini 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z "We always liked each other. We used to talk a lot on the phone and then we fell in love," Amrutha says with a wan smile. In a hurry? Here's what you need to know this morning 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Seldom has so much name talent been assembled in the service of a film as wan and misguided as “A Happening of Monumental Proportions,” a title that couldn’t be less apt if it tried. Review: Judy Greer's directing debut, 'A Happening of Monumental Proportions,' offers meager serving of laughs 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Against this reality, Monsanto’s defense couldn’t help but seem a little wan. Monsanto's ethics are questionable, but the $289-million verdict against it is still unjustified 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The state’s designated commercial salmon season, which normally runs from May 1 to Sept. 30, had been reduced to a wan shadow. California's salmon industry fears it will be wiped out by Trump 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The Boys’ catalogue bursts with operatically-grand songs that telegraph specific characters, including a wan observer who vacillates between witty cynicism and wary appreciation. Here we go again: which jukebox musical should be next? 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z A nod, it would seem, to cruel Nurse Ratched of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” though this iteration, a woman wan and wrinkled and played by Jodie Foster, is a compassionate healer. ‘Hotel Artemis’: Jodie Foster leads fun but unoriginal futuristic crime thriller 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z By 2005, in The Squid and the Whale, she was a wan, tormented neurotic. Laura Linney on making her British stage debut 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Not that people overdo the layers, but we know several local women who occasionally verify their age by disrobing and counting the numbers of rings of Patagonia Puffy tops clinging to their pale, wan bodies. Ron Judd’s newcomers’ guide to Seattle 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z My blackout headlight is a slot of wan light. Read an excerpt from Luna author Ian McDonald’s heartbreaking new time-travel romance 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z House salads, they’re generally called — all pale iceberg and wan tomatoes, canned olives, chunks of onion, everything awash in a watery vinaigrette. Most House Salads Are Terrible. Make Yours Shockingly Superb. 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The wan turkey club, with its sad strips of bacon, has me daydreaming about the Cali Turkey sandwich at Beef ’N Bread. Review | A Wawa sub makes sense on the highway. In the city, it tastes like a mistake. 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z They reach a point where a Saturday morning club isn’t enough, if they wan to stay in speekskating they need something bigger. Shani Davis, America's most important Winter Olympian, reaches his end game 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z They don't but they do wan a compassionate fair system to deal with them. If Immigrants Are Pushed Out, Who Will Care for the Elderly? 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Both times, the thin noodles tasted bland and wan, uninspired. Seattle ramen ranking: Which of Capitol Hill’s 5 new places is best? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Whenever I see Furhrman or Ornish on TV the first thing that strikes me is what poor specimens they look like: wan and weak. Good Fats, Bad Fats 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z The price of being considered included several public genuflections by Romney, one at an upscale New York restaurant where a photographer captured him looking wan and Trump gleeful. A longtime Republican senator says he'll retire, and the White House nervously eyes his likely successor, Mitt Romney 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z A segment of the GOP wans to help Obamacare insurers lower premiums, now that the party has failed to repeal and replace the law. Analysis | The Health 202: Extra Obamacare subsidies renew battle over taxpayer funding of abortion 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z With raised eyebrows and a wan smile, she said simply: “I will be speaking with him.” As Harassment Accusations Multiply, a Question: Who Stays and Who Goes? 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Driverless vehicles carrying wan solitary passengers; oh yes my friends, we are going there. Self-Driving Trucks May Be Closer Than They Appear 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Once underway on their journey, the three present a grizzled, slightly wan semblance of the characters Jack Nicholson and Otis Young brought to life three decades ago in a similarly eventful journey. Review | ‘Last Flag Flying’ considers the costs of war, from Vietnam to Iraq 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Up to now, most have cravenly absorbed all manner of insults, accepted unspeakable unseemliness, and sat by with wan smiles as Trump left them hanging by shifting his positions moment to moment. Opinion | The enablers of Trump’s dangerous presidency 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Xi, 64 — who towers over many of his colleagues, with a wan smile that conveys detachment — surrounded himself with allies. How China's Xi Jinping went from administrator to authoritarian 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z While story fundamentals are there and performances sharp, the film is curiously wan. ‘Te Ata’ review: Tale of an inspiring Chickasaw storyteller 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z The first Sunday of the NFL season ended with a final flourish of wan incompetence. Week 1 showed the NFL preseason is broken, and there may not be a solution 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z The jeers arrived in the seventh inning, but they sounded wan and jaded, a product of a Dodger Stadium crowd weary after such a steady diet of disappointment. Fans let the Dodgers hear it in 3-1 loss to the Diamondbacks 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Billboards that once proclaimed “Ees onlee wan South of the Border, Amigos” gave way to more benign, but still humorous messages. South Carolina’s South of the Border survives modern times 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z There’s a subtext having to do with female empowerment, pietistic hypocrisy and finding God in the sacred and the profane, but it’s submerged under what is essentially a very long, slightly wan Monty Python sketch. Review | ‘The Little Hours’: Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron,’ by way of f-bombs and modern lingo 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Slender, tracksuited, a little wan under his manicured facial hair, Tomlinson sits on a garden bench outside the photographer’s studio and works methodically through an entire pack of cigarettes. Louis Tomlinson: ‘Zayn has the voice, Harry is cool… then there’s me’ 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Last week, the slim 33-year-old with shaggy brown hair juggled a soccer ball on Seattle U’s field, looking fit, if a bit wan. After 2 lung transplants, 1 brain tumor and 15 years of hardship, Seattle U student earns a degree 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z There, he and a teammate take on the wan Milky Burrado and burly El Chicano, a San Diego native who comes with his own cheering squad. Masked marvels: Good guys, bad guys and Spandex outfits — it’s lucha libre 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Even among the Republican leadership, whose views were assembled by the Associated Press, the response was disapproving but wan. Should America Worry About What Happened in Montana? 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Nothing disgusted him more than aestheticism, which he associated with the Polish poets popular in his youth, who produced wan imitations of French fin-de-siècle poetry. Czeslaw Milosz’s Battle for Truth 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The afternoon I went, a shroud of smog covered an already sunless sky, and the artificial grass on the Float’s soccer field seemed wan and uninviting. How Singapore Is Creating More Land for Itself 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z “I knew I was playing well, but I didn’t realize I was that high on the leader board,” he said with a wan smile. Billy Hurley III's walk through Augusta was for more than him - Golf Digest 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z “So I am here,” said Karim, with a wan smile, indicating a muddy yard of tents and tarpaulin which passes for a migrant shelter. The global waiting room: displaced migrants headed to US in limbo in Tijuana 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z But hard-hearted though it feels to criticise public displays of well-meaning sentiment, some of the “statements” were frustratingly wan. What New York fashion week tells us about Trump’s US 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Batista was photographed looking tired and wan on the plane by the Rio newspaper O Globo, which reported he did not dine and just drank two glasses of milk. Brazilian Tycoon Eike Batista Is Arrested After Returning Home 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Above them, a small, green-topped lighthouse sits on the rocks, and basking in the wan sunlight at its foot is a local pensioner, Patrick Labbe. France's Socialists open battle for party's future - BBC News 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z “Maybe learn a bit more Spanish,” he said with a wan smile. Jurgen Klinsmann trying to stay positive after November firing by U.S. soccer team 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z She met Will in Denver and described him as,”… a frail, white-faced man, the long, white hair clinging about his temples, the lips thin and white and wan - but a man fighting to the end.” Gravesite legend survives century since western icon’s death 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Leicester have performed like a wan tribute act for most of the domestic season but here they showed the qualities of which they are really made, and it was Manchester City who looked bogus. Jamie Vardy hat-trick leads Leicester demolition of Manchester City 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z The subtext is a wan hope that the military will step in, perhaps by forcing Maduro to follow the law and hold the recall election. Venezuela, A Failing State 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z “British newshens clucked and asked if that was why the Princess looked so sad and wan in her latest pictures from Africa.” 'The Crown' and the True History of Princess Margaret's Doomed Romance 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z “Hi,” I said to my patient and his mother, with a wan smile. Breaking Bad News to Patients 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z As wan in spirit as it is devoid of color and life, it goes from glum to ghastly, with little in the way of genuine intrigue between. ‘The Girl on the Train’: Even Emily Blunt can’t enliven fatally dreary whodunit. 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z When I express sympathy, he confesses, with a wan smile, “This is like talking to a therapist with the ability to humiliate you.” Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z The docket for their upcoming term is looking wan, with fewer cases and less controversy than the court has seen in a long time. About to tilt 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Dahl had a wan smile and his eyes began to well up. How family tragedy turned Roald Dahl into a medical pioneer 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z That February, he produced his first women’s collection, which was shown on a parade of wan models—some of them slightly funny-looking, many of them in nerdy glasses. Gucci’s Renaissance Man 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z He looked tired, wan, in need of a treat. Stan Wawrinka Proves Himself a Reinvented Champion 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Hotel dining, once scorned as the refuge of wan continental breakfasts and limp salads, has become a lifeline for restaurants that would otherwise be priced out of New York City. High-Profile Chefs Make Hotels Their Meal Tickets 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The jokes are genial but wan, and the storytelling rudimentary, but the music is lovingly resuscitated. A Trip Through Time, With a ’60s Sound 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z “We are the ones that keep getting bashed every single day,” he said, with a wan smile. This Year’s Most Awkward Job? Latino Republican Outreach 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z I want to thank — I wan to thank your extraordinary senator, Sherrod Brown, for his leadership, for that very kind and generous introduction. Read Clinton's Speech About the Orlando Shooting 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z With a wan smile and a lengthy glance at the floor, Musk repeated his answer, suggesting his eye was on Google. Elon Musk: There's only one AI company that worries me 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z During a campaign rally, he faked an East Asian accent, barking, “We wan deal,” as he mocked how Chinese and Japanese businesses view the U.S. Donald Trump inspires outrage, amusement, respect among U.S. rivals Iran, Russia, China 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Yet it feels a little wan — not as subtle as it might be on the one hand, or as daffy on the other; one would like it to twinkle harder. Fox's 'Houdini & Doyle': The game is afoot in turn-of-the-last century London 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The attention to detail made Gates and his commanders look crisp and well prepared; the State Department, which was pushing a “civilian surge” to accompany the troops, looked wan by comparison. How Hillary Clinton Became a Hawk 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Justice Scalia was the court’s most active questioner, and arguments without him have been somewhat wan and tepid. Dynamics Are Shifting in an 8-Member Supreme Court 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z When asked what she thought of the humorists’ tactics, she offered a wan smile. In Mexico City, Comedians Punish Society’s Scofflaws With Humiliation 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Though this fall was driven by a renewed collapse in oil prices, the core inflation index, which excludes volatile items such as energy, is also looking wan. The new mediocre 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z But consumers gave a wan embrace to the Scion iQ, a tiny runabout aimed at urban dwellers. Carmakers Retreat From Quirky Designs as Millennials Embrace Mainstream 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” a hybrid of Jane Austen’s romances and “The Walking Dead,” earned a wan $5.2 million from 2,931 locations. Box Office:‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ trumps ‘Hail, Caesar! 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z It’s so incredible because when Paul was sitting in his chair, so debilitated, and wan and thin, he was totally crackling with life. Keeping Dr. Paul Kalanithi’s Voice Alive 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Each lead by itself might be justifiable — some even memorable — but when we use the device over and over, all the examples seem a bit wan. Here's Someone You Never Heard of. Read On. 1453-09-24T05:00:00Z Built in 1975 and resembling a giant Gatling gun barrel propped upright, the hotel shows signs of age - threadbare carpet, scuffed walls, wan lighting - that might provoke paying guests to demand a refund. Closing of homeless shelter for veterans underlines woes 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Despite this global reach, Avon looks increasingly wan. Ding-dong 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z In the end, a fiery draft dissent from Justice Sotomayor helped pave the way for a short, wan compromise decision in June 2013. Re-Examining Race and College Admissions 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z He looked up from his oatmeal with a wan smile. Can the G.O.P. Deal with Inequality? 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z And without a roomful of folks screaming and shouting in unison, viewers may find this movie too wan. 'Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension' still adds scares six films in 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Its numbers were also pretty wan--just $3.65 million, a lowly seventh on the weekend box office list. 'Pan': The Great PG Revolution is not off to a great start 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z In this case, it arrived under the wan light of the lunar eclipse last week. Under an Eclipse, a Lawn Full of Crawling Stars 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z He became wan and withdrawn, and lost all interest in the newspaper, Sudoku, sports or Johnny Cash. When a doctor’s father rejected dialysis, he didn’t expect what happened 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z In an area behind the chutes where cowboys gather before their rides, wan faces watched a replay on a television screen. Dusty Tuckness: Not Clowning Around 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Stewart begins to look increasingly wan and disconcerted as it dawns on him that he’s lost any chance of prevailing. Jon Stewart, Avatar of Progressive Culture 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Their wan faces emblazon billboards and trading cards. Where Racewalking Is King, the Antidoping Officials Are Busy 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z You will ignore, as you should, the wan cup of sweet barbecue sauce served on the side. Hatfields' technique at Odys + Penelope lends itself to myth 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z I, wan, ignite virago, tar a snide loser. "Madam, I'm Adam": Meet the World Palindrome Champion 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Afterward, Wilpon offered a wan smile but no comment as he breezed past reporters, having wilted from public view in the roughly six years since he became embroiled in the Bernard L. Madoff financial scandal. Mets Owner Fred Wilpon Is Making Good on His Promise to Be More Engaged With the Team 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z When he shook hands with Krzyzewski that day, Few had a wan smile on his face, as if to say, “We had no shot,” whether it was in talent, coaching, training staff or media coverage. Compliments flowing freely as Duke and Gonzaga get ready to square off 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z As a chancellor dedicated to saving money, with a buttoned-up public image to match his wan aristocratic features, Mr Osborne is not an obvious hybrid of his 19th-century heroes. Not just a hatchet man 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z They might be afraid of someone with a strong personality, so they pick a wan leader who won’t rock the boat. Five Signs Your CEO Is Incompetent 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z I am ashamed of the things that I write, those wan attempts at wit and weak gestures toward wisdom. I'm Ashamed of Who I Am on Twitter 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Luck’s laser beams provided a counterbalance to Manning’s wan throws, just as Luck’s youth emphasized Manning’s age. AFC playoffs: Peyton Manning struggles as Broncos fall to Colts, 24-13, in divisional round 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z With eleven seconds left in the first round, and Schaub making only wan attempts at defense, the referee shouted, “Stop! Stop! Stop!” and the fight was finished. An Astonishing Mixed-Martial-Arts Podcast 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Outside, another group of students handed out yellow chrysanthemums in a wan attempt to make people feel better about their beloved school. Rocked by Rape Report, University of Virginia to Hold Special Meeting 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Historically, National is one of the last spots at which the wan vestiges of summer warmth yield to the inexorable encroachment of winter. Temperature dips to 32 at Reagan National Airport Others with Chicago Bears Ennui just stare out the window and sigh, wan and obscure Charles Aznavour expressions on their faces, saying: Chicago Bears fans have a French disease called ennui 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z I traced some of its charm to a generous application of herb-laced sauce, which had wormed its way into the crust, boosting the flavor profile of what could be a wan, crackery base. New York pizza outside New York? One Wiseguy gets pretty darn close. The wan smile on his face did not reach his eyes. Phil Mickelson and Tom Watson Share Icy Exchange After Ryder Cup Loss 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z “Oh, it’s a shame when you have a wan, diffident, professorial president with no foreign policy other than ‘don’t do stupid things,’ ” guests recalled him saying, sarcastically imitating his adversaries. Paths to War, Then and Now, Haunt Obama 2014-09-13T04:00:00Z The crowd emitted a wan cheer as the ball trickled. Nationals vs. Phillies: Nats open road trip with 3-2 loss in Philadelphia “Life After Beth” may have revived the ultimate girlfriend from hell, but it’s still wan, listless and derivative in bringing her to undead life. ‘Life After Beth’ movie review: Is she a zombie, or is she Jesus? So when a visitor strode into the manager's spacious clubhouse office to talk about the art of leadership, Bochy greeted him with a firm handshake and a wan expression. No-nonsense approach is a winner for Giants Manager Bruce Bochy 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z When he got to the treatment center and received a small bag of cookies he managed a wan smile. Cross-Border Ebola Outbreak a First for Deadly Virus 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z But in the end, his answer to his own question seemed disappointingly wan: GOP’s moronic inferno: The real reason cranks and shills rule the party 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Their sleek bodies were contracted, and their expressions wan. Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z In the courtroom, Loader directed a wan smile at his mother and shrugged after the jury returned its verdicts after deliberating for 90 minutes. Kingman man convicted of killing, dismemberment 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Still, his wan sinker lacked velocity and action, his ability to locate wavered and the grew concerned enough to remove him from the game, if not the rotation altogether. Nationals vs. Padres: Taylor Jordan leaves early in Washington’s 4-2 loss 2014-04-27T21:19:00Z Chuck Wood went late, despite being the most muscular boy there, as he always swung for the fence in wan hope of a home run and was widely considered a showboater. Thomas McGuane: “Hubcaps.” 2014-04-14T04:00:00Z Whooping Cough Whooping cough outbreaks are thought to be spurred by wanning immunity from the vaccine. 4 Diseases Making a Comeback Thanks to Anti-Vaxxers 2014-03-17T20:57:07Z Instead, the holiday menu generally runs to frozen pizzas, buckets of wan delivery chicken, supermarket guacamole, cans of cheese dip and stale ranch-flavored chips. All This and a Bag of Chips 2014-01-27T22:47:51Z After more than two years of recession, Italy’s economy is expected to have shrunk by 1.8% in 2013, returning to wan growth this year. Italian business: Brave old world 2014-01-02T16:00:51Z Ahead of that event here are seven things linking Scotland with the films - as well as books, comics and the animated TV series The chosen wans Scots have secured starring roles in the films before. Chosen wans: Scots links with Star Wars 2013-11-28T07:21:36Z “The hard thing is that I have to work today,” he said with a wan smile. Obama's Iran Challenge 2013-11-24T15:35:22Z “The runway isn’t underwater yet,” Tong says, offering a wan smile. Drowning Kiribati 2013-11-21T18:25:49Z On Friday, he rested his head in his right hand and rubbed his temple, appearing pale and wan in his camouflage military uniform with an American flag patch affixed to his shoulder. Early deployment called "trigger point" for Fort Hood attack 2013-08-16T20:39:09Z The sole feature was a small, high window which let a wan light through. How do people survive solitary confinement? 2013-06-12T23:14:19Z “He is my emir now,” he said, with a wan smile. Bomb Suspect’s Trip Sheds Light on Caucasus War 2013-05-20T00:25:39Z Given the wan allure of money, the authors suggested rewarding workers instead with the gift of time--chiefly in the form of flex-time and sabbaticals. Give Workers More Vacation--But Only if You Do This Too 2013-05-16T20:28:23Z In other words, the final version of the talking points may have been so wan because officials simply deleted everything that upset the two sides. An alternative explanation for the Benghazi talking points: Bureaucratic knife fight 2013-05-10T17:15:00Z But these kids make for wan enemies, after the Mephistopheles Berezovsky almost too small to pick on. Putin Needs an Enemy 2013-03-25T11:06:00Z Benedict appeared wan and spoke very softly, but his eyes twinkled with joy at the flock’s warm and heartfelt welcome. Pope Says He's Resigning for the 'Good of Church' 2013-02-13T13:35:23Z Although the temperature was well below freezing, the wan winter light bouncing off the glass-clad apartment buildings created at least the illusion of warmth. Fans of Cold Spell Say It Reduces Outdoor Crowds 2013-01-25T01:57:54Z We are not against individuals or countries or states, we wan to live in peace with others, but real peace, comprehensive peace. Runner-Up: TIME Sits Down with Morsi 2012-12-19T13:05:34Z Dawn was still an hour away, and in the wan light of the kitchen, Villalobos took off his house sandals and pulled the bag over his right foot. California’s rampant farm-labor abuse 2012-09-12T18:55:00Z On the board, Jiang wrote the characters for "good evening," pronounced "wan shang hao." IHT Rendezvous: Making Mandarin Mandatory - in U.S. Kindergartens 2012-09-10T04:48:58Z The Fed is already engaged in ambitious programs to support demand, bolster employment and support the wan recovery. Many at Fed Ready to Act if Growth Doesn’t Pick Up 2012-08-22T18:29:13Z Pelham 1 2 3, the mostly wan remake of a much tougher 1974 urban thriller, is essentially a long phone call between train hijacker Travolta and subway cop Washington. Tony Scott: Hollywood Top Gun, Yes. Unstoppable, No. 2012-08-20T16:35:35Z Philip was very much worried by Sylvia’s wan looks, and urged her more insistently to leave her job, and let him provide for her. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z "Not this time, Doc," protested the lieutenant-commander with a wan smile, as he lurched forward. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z But let me tell ye wan thing, Noel Curtis. The Young Sharpshooter at Antietam 2012-04-19T02:00:29.860Z "There's no last time about it," said Walker, who was watching Margu�rite's wan and terror-stricken face. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z The pale grey overhanging sky vouchsafed but little light to the earth; and though the sun at one period struggled to break through, his radiant countenance looked wan and faint. Henry of Guise; (Vol. I of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:31.930Z Fugitives, wan and careworn, are crouching and lying on the stone flooring. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z The moon shone full upon the window-panes, and projected her wan bluish light into the room. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z Mrs. Dundyke, with him daily, saw not the change that every hour was surely making in him; but she did notice how wan and ill he looked this evening. Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-06T02:00:29.933Z "It was wan word for the gossoon, as he calls him, an' two for himself, Bill," chimed in the man on the next ridge. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z And I said—Is this the sea, that lies so pale and wan? The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z And it well might be, So forlorn is she, Where the weird winds sigh and wan birds soar.” Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z The water of the Nile, sluggish and wan, seemed to slumber in its course, and slowly extend itself in sheets of molten tin. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z "It does not touch me," Father Ben�it answered with a wan smile. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z I turned then, and the sight of the girl's wan face and strained eyes recalled me in some degree to myself. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z Miss Ellen's couch lay out in the sunshine, her wan hands were clasped, her eyes fixed on the white road which descended from the school-house. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z In a flash he saw a room hung with black, a bed, and a silent covered form on it--a form with wan, fair hair--a woman's. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z The gentle Esgair, wan and weary, lay prostrate upon the ground. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z She looked at me, a wan smile on her face. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z Her wan face and swollen eyes showed how the force of her sympathy and grief had worn upon her. Joel: A Boy of Galilee 2012-03-24T02:00:17.137Z Many are centenarians, with creaky limbs, an unsteady gait and a wan complexion. City Room: Before a Carousel's 100th Birthday, a Visit From the Doctor 2012-03-23T17:36:08Z Paler than the autumnal leaf, Or the wan hue of pining grief, The cheek of sloth shall grow; Nor can cosmetic, wash, or ball, Nature's own favorite tints recall, If once you let them go. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Then by-and-by she rose, and with wan, stricken face, went back to her boy. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z Alexandre Alexandrovich, a satchel slung across his breast, wan and haggard, but flushed with excitement, was bustling about in a listless, mechanical way. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z What a scene in that little court-yard as the sunset touched the wan faces and smiled into dying eyes. Joel: A Boy of Galilee 2012-03-24T02:00:17.137Z |
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