* Avoidance: Perhaps voters see themselves as a people apart, instinctively detached from politicians' bromides and the press's
whininess. Perhaps letter writers intentionally carve out a third way in politics that distinguishes them from politicians and journalists but that resonates with their fellow citizens.
Sarah Silverman's character, Cheri Meyerowitz, is the most stereotyped, and "Jewish," of the ensemble, and she goes all outas perhaps only she canto embody middle-child Cheri in all her bratty, obnoxious
whininess. It is truly irritating, as I imagine Silverman thoroughly intended, to watch her failed-actress character shriek at her mother and demand back-up her in her libel lawsuit against Nathan.
The other guys had been hardened by one awful job after another and did their work without the slightest display of
whininess. They cut their fingers and didn't care about the saltwater in their wounds.
Prochnik has an excellent ear for good stories, but a book like this sits perilously close to the unlovely neighborhoods of
whininess and precious self-regard.
Parents often report externalizing symptoms, such as irritability, moodiness,
whininess, and loss of interest, while adolescents when questioned report internalizing symptoms, such as sadness, suicidal thoughts, and sleep disturbances not apparent to parents (Jeffrey et al., 2005).
That both clients are young women seems to dovetail with the protagonist's mix of horniness, loneliness and
whininess.
In Vietnam, Nicholas alternated between clingy
whininess and a manic whirl of kung-fu punches on the streets.
(Home run.) Blessedly, they lacked the Bud-breath boorishness of Autzen jerks and the "my-kid-couldn't-be-out!"
whininess of Kidsports parents.
It sort of sounds like
whininess. I always thought that Bush's
whininess was just Bush being whiny, but maybe it's a Texas thing."
Which is a very useful question, two simple words, which, depending on their inflection, can express everything from dark-night-of-the-soul delving to adenoidal, self-pitying
whininess, either one of which is suitable to the occasion of graduating from college.
From the callousness of the voters to the
whininess of the expelled.
I read the
whininess and the admonitions as evidence of tango women's rebellion.