Henry remains the straight man throughout, a jaded pivot to this spiralling array of underemployed dreamers.
If the 130th edition of the Greatest Show on Earth boasts no single side-splitting clown or daredevil act capable of reducing even jaded joyseekers to bated breath, it remains a big, bright, something-for-everyone show.
In his 1986 limited series, Miller brilliantly contrasts a shallow and self-centred, increasingly wrinkly and jaded caped crusader with a Kal-El who remains youthful, noble and good-hearted – yet as boring as dry toast for dinner.
This masterpiece of 1941 to Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D minor remains so extraordinarily beautiful that it can make even the most jaded veteran dancegoer weep with joy.
And while the rest of Bernofsky's translation is occasionally a tad verbose for my tastes it remains eminently readable and would make an ideal gift for the aforementioned jaded Kafkaphile.
But it remains a tough sell to a punch-drunk public of armchair activists jaded by hazy images of Sally Struthers pleading for children with swollen bellies and flies in their noses while sitting right next to them.
Krusty is a hard-living entertainment veteran, sometimes depicted as a jaded, burned-out has-been, who has been down and out several times and remains addicted to gambling, cigarettes, alcohol, Percodan, Pepto-Bismol, and Xanax.
Yet the conservatory remains a gratifying place to hear the standard repertory, if only because students are typically excited to be playing it, which is often not the case with jaded professionals.
The lamentably long catalog of crimes against humanity in this century should make even jaded diplomats recognize that without the U.S. taking a forceful, clear-cut lead — a lead based on a firm sense of what is right and wrong — the response to that dreadful question remains: It can happen again.
